REPORTAGE – A stone’s throw from the largest European naval base, the army recruitment center sees candidates with varied profiles flocking to join the army for ten months. This voluntary service will integrate its first recruits next September.
“It’s simple: my dream is to become a marine.”released from the start of the game Enzo Tassin-Cormeron. Black t-shirt, gray jeans and brown hair tinged with a few blond highlights, the 20-year-old young man sits, with a smile on his lips, facing the head teacher Sébastien, recruitment advisor within the Armed Forces Information and Recruitment Center (Cirfa) in Toulon. Located a few hundred meters from the famous military port and the largest naval base in Europe, the recruitment office welcomes around thirty candidates each week who wish to join the army. And since the start of the year, two or three young people have come through the door to apply for a very specific path: that of national service.
Announced at the end of November 2025 by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, this system plans to recruit 3,000 young people aged 18 to 25 for its first ten-month session which will begin in September. In total, the Army hopes to integrate 1…
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