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Legendary Force Updates Its Image; Online Recruiting, Anti- Terrorist Activities Routine in Today's French Foreign Legion
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The French Foreign Legion, one of the most romanticized military
units in history, is getting a 21st-century makeover.
Out with the images honed by Hollywood -- in movies such as
"Beau Geste" and "March or Die" -- of bands of misfits and
miscreants dispatched to kill or be killed on sandy fields of
battle. Today, the French Foreign Legion's most powerful recruiter
is the Internet. Its troops are more likely to be securing the
sewers of Nice against terrorists than fighting wars on camel-back
in the deserts of Africa.
Most of its soldiers in this era of globalization are economic ...
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Now, Foreign Legion waits
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The day I joined the Foreign Legion
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Fabled Foreign Legion is fading
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