Foreign Legion Recruiting Group

The Transit Company of the Foreign Legion (CTLE), reassumed part responsibility for the missions of the C.T.L.E of the 1st Foreign Regiment dissolved on July 10 and is responsible for:[10]

• Prospective candidate search.
• Recruitment of volunteers.
• Representation of the Foreign Legion on the ensemble territory with 10 information posts (P.I.L.E).[11]
• The transit of Foreign Legion personnel and families between metropole and outre-mer (overseas) or Parisian regions.

The mission of the Foreign Legion Information Posts (PILE) in Paris (3 posts), Lille, Nantes, Paris - Fort Neuf de Vincennes, Paris, Paris, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseilles, Nice, Perpignan, Toulouse, consist of maintaining a quality recruitment that minimizes the circle of francophones while simultaneously maintaining diversity by the multiple presence of various origins.[12][13]

The PILE, unlike the recruiting posts of the remainder of the French Army, uses civilian services and military resources to launch activities that would attract potential candidates through expositions, mobile information trucks and other mobile information posts.[14][15] The Foreign Legion only recruits in France. The Foreign Legion will not obtain permanent visas for prospective recruits to travel to France, nor finance any voyage to France.[16]

The C.R.L.E, The Recruiting Company of the Foreign Legion, is responsible for:[17]

• The escort of hospitalized and isolated legionnaires in region of Ile de France.
• The evaluation of potential candidates at engagement in the 2 centers of preslection at Fort de Nogent and Aubagne.
• The conditioning placing of potential candidates at engagement towards the center of selection and incorporation.

The C.S.I, the Center of Selection Incorporation is an integral part of the C.R.L.E and is implanted in Quartier (garrison) Vienot at Aubagne. The Center Selection is responsible for:[18]

• The coordination and direction of the selection candidate process.
• The management of potential candidates course towards medical screenings.
• The enlisting of candidates during the selection process.
• The return of candidates not selected to civilian life.

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  Regimental Insignia of the Foreign Legion Recruiting Group, G.R.L.E
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  Beret insignia of the Foreign Legion Recruiting Group, G.R.L.E

At origin, Fanions served marking the assemblies of armies, a point of rally to and alignment manoeuver of military units.[19] The notion of fanion-emblem surfaced in the campaigns of Africa and were generalized following World War I.[20] The reglementation in concern for use were not established until 1976.[21] Only the fanions of unit forming regimental corps, such as the Foreign Legion Recruiting Group (G.R.L.E) has right to honorary ceremonies.[22]

For the G.R.L.E, the Division General of the Foreign Legion has authorized that the guard of the G.R.L.E Fanion be constituted of, as per reglementation, 1 Sous-officiers (fanion bearer), and 2 Legionnaires, all three armed with MAS- 49-56.[23]

Conquérir des volontaires (Conquering Volunteers to Form Legionnaires) is the Regimental song and mission of the Foreign Legion Recruiting Group:[24]

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