In the current geopolitical context, the necessary remobilization of the nation and territories around defense issues involves strengthening the defense correspondent. However, its ambiguous status requires a redefinition for which Member of Parliament Julien Dive formulates eleven recommendations in a report delivered in early April to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Catherine Vautrin.
Introduced by a circular in 2001, the year of the end of mandatory military service, the defense correspondent was formalized by ministerial instruction in 2009. Appointed within the municipal council, he has three missions: maintain the link between the army and the nation, inform young people about Defense and Citizenship Day and the recruitment opportunities in military professions, and be the guardian of the duty of remembrance.
Currently, there are around 30,000 defense correspondents, with gaps in coverage in rural areas. “Its deployment has been very uneven because we lacked organization and guidelines to know exactly what its role was and how it worked with the representatives of the army or state on its territory,” said Nicolas Daragon, mayor of Valence and vice president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF).
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