Maybe, but I still look at the French Foreign Legion as a completely separate entity or branch within the french Armed Forces. Think of the US Marines being open to foreign recruitment.
When I talked about the background check, I want to clarify. It would be fairly straight forward to do a Commonwealth background check. But when you open it up to every nation, I can see where there would be difficulties in terms of doing checks and the recruiting process.
With the French Foreign Legion, if your willing to pay for your travel and show up at a FFL recruiting station they will do a cursory background check on you and then basically sign you. I don't know if that's quite the extreme direction that we'd want to go.
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