Foreign Legion Application Process

Original Source: http://www.legion-recrute.com/en/

You can only enlist in mainland France
(Free board, lodging and clothing are immediately provided)

• Preselection is carried out in our recruiting offices throughout France;
  
• Selection is carried out in Aubagne near Marseille :
  
  
  
  • psycho-technical tests
    
  • medical tests
    
  • sports tests (luc-leger "navette")
    
  
  
• If your candidature is upheld, the first contract is minimum for 5 year
  
• Successive contracts are for six months, up to 5 years
  

You must be successive contracts are for six months (for minors under 18, parental consent is required on a form available in French Gendarmeries or Embassies outside France)

Whatever your marital status is (single, married, divorced..) you will be enlisted as a single man

You must have a valid ID

You must be physically fit to serve at all times and in all places

In a legion Information Center			1 day
Reception	Information
Constitution du dossier d'engagement

Preselection

1 to 3 days
	In a legion Recruitment Center (Paris - Aubagne)
	Confirmation of motivation	Initial medical check-up	Finalizing enlistment papers
	Signing contract of service (5 years)

Selection

1 to 10 days
	In the Center of Recruiting and Selection in Aubagne
	Psychotechnical tests : logic tests, no education required
	Thorough medical check-up	Sports tests	Motivation and security interviews
	Personality tests (complementary to the psycho-technical tests)
	Selection

Signing and handing-over of the contract of service (5 years).				7 days
Incorporation

Basic training with the 4th foreign RegimentDurationFORMATION

Initial training. Initiation to military lifestyle. Outdoor and field activities. Comradeship. Learning legion traditions.			4 weeks
March "Képi Blanc" and graduation ceremony.			1 week
Technical and practical training (alternatig barracks and field training)			3 weeks
Mountain training (Chalet at Formiguière in the French Pyrenees)			1 week
Technical and practical training (alternating barracks and field training)			2 weeks
Examinations and obtaining of the elementary technical certificate (CTE)			1 week
March ending basic training			1 week
Light vehicle / trucks school			1 week
Return to Aubagne before reporting to the assigned regiment			1 week
Reporting to one of the 11 regiments of the foreign Legion.