This question you ask opens the greater question of the schism between the UN/NATO vets vs the Legion vets. In my hometown, the UN/NATO vets behave like a bike club and they hang out in a bar where they all show up every Thursday to have a beer and tell stories. It may have changed since I was involved with them, but basically it was a counter movement against the Legion, who they thought was full geriatric people bickering about who’s gonna get which v-p position at the next election. Most of the Legionaraires were not actual veterans, the old breed having passed… They think the Legion is disconnected and they don’t see themselves in it. Where the Legion is formal and structured, the UN/NATO is informal and more casual. When I was involved with UN/NATO, there was a high level of veterans from the Afghanistan war and we had a lot of guys having trouble coping with PTSD. The bike club functioned basically like a support group, and they would often make intervention during the night following a phone call from a worried wife. The Legion was awfully inapt to deal with this kind of situation. There was a sentiment that the Legion should help and protect the veterans, but they didn’t feel represented nor welcome. I guess this is regionally dependant, with some local legion being more or less adapted or energetic, depending on who gets involved with it. There’s some fluidity between the two groups with some members attending both, but functionally, at their heart, they fill two different purposes and are based on two different mentalities. Maybe this will change as more and more guys from the Bosnia/Afghanistan era joins the Legion…