THE LEGIONNAIRE'S CODE OF HONOR
 1. Legionnaire : you are a volunteer serving 
France faithfully and with honor. 

2. Every Legionnaire is your brother-at-arms, 
irrespective of his nationality, race or creed. 
You will demonstrate this by an unwavering and 
straight forward solidarity which must always 
bind together members of the same family. 

3. Respectful of the Legion's traditions, 
honoring your superiors, discipline and 
comradeship are your strength, courage and 
loyalty your virtues. 

4. Proud of your status as a legionnaire, you 
will display this pride, by your turnout, 
always impeccable, your behavior, ever worthy, 
though modest, your living-quarters, always tidy. 

5. An elite soldier : you will train vigorously, 
you will maintain your weapons as if it were your 
most precious possession, you will keep your body 
in the peak of condition, always fit. 

6. A mission once given to you becomes sacred to 
you, you will accomplish it to the end and at all 
costs. 

7. In combat : you will act without relish of your 
tasks, or hatred ; you will respect the vanquished 
enemy and will never abandon, neither your wounded 
nor your dead, nor will you under any circumstances 
surrender your arms.