Major Gérald: Sports Tests of French Foreign Legion Selection

In his new video, Major Gérald, the popular senior non-commissioned officer of the French Foreign Legion, sets aside his usual physical training content to answer one of the questions his viewers ask most often: how do the sports tests at Legion selection actually work? Now serving with the Legion’s Communication Center (a unit handling media relations and the Legion’s social media), he filmed this video at the Selection and Enlistment Center (CSI) of the 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE) in Aubagne, the Legion’s headquarters near Marseille, where the entire selection process takes place.

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Eyesight: French Foreign Legion vision requirements

French Foreign Legion and eyesight requirements. Being nearsighted/shortsighted, being farsighted/longsighted. Color blindness. Do legionnaires wear glasses or contact lenses or do not? Am I allowed to wear glasses/specs or lenses while enlisting and serving in the Foreign Legion? What are the French Foreign Legion eyesight requirements?

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What is the age limit for joining the French Foreign Legion exactly?

French Foreign Legion and the age requirements. Roughly once a week I receive e-mails asking me about the accurate age limit that can qualify/disqualify their authors for joining the French Foreign Legion. Is the age limit 17 or 18 years? Is the age limit 39 or 40 years? Which are the Foreign Legion age requirements? Help me, please!

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