Contracts & career within the legion
A rapid evolution for the most deserving!
The contract :
The initial contract is for 5 years. At the end of this first contract, the legionary can choose to continue his career by means of successive contracts whose duration varies between 6 months and 5 years. By serving with determination and according to aptitudes, a management career can be offered to you from 3 years of service!
Evolution possibilities:
Advancement is based on merit. Any legionary can make a career, not by the educational or professional diplomas acquired in the civil, but thanks to the military or technical examinations passed during the successive contracts.
All of the legion's non-commissioned officers begin their careers as a simple legionary.
Current supervision rate: out of 4 legionnaires who enlist today, one of them will become a non-commissioned officer.
Career Path in the Foreign Legion
Military Career for Enlisted Ranks
- Young Legionnaire: One enlists as a young legionnaire regardless of past.
- Corporal: Accessible after 2 years of service.
- Chief Corporal: Accessible after 6 years of service.
Non-Commissioned Officer Career
- Sergeant: Accessible after 3 years of service, while already being a corporal.
- Chief Sergeant: Accessible after 3 years of sergeant rank.
- Adjutant: Accessible after 3 years of chief sergeant rank.
- Chief Adjutant: Accessible after 3 years of adjutant rank.
- Major: By competitive examination, after two years of chief adjutant rank.
Officer Career
Only non-commissioned officers can become officers if they pass the EMIA (Inter-Arms Military School) or ODS (Specialist Officer) competitive examination.
Certain majors, at the command's discretion, may also become officers.
10% of officers serving in the Foreign Legion first served as legionnaires, then as non-commissioned officers.
