I haven't ready every single response to this thread, but just my 2 gil:
If you've done the Dragoon job quests, you still get called the Azure Dragoon. Your character is still referred to as a Dragoon without them ever being entered into an official ORDER.
While not everyone can be an Azure Dragoon, I'd say this is still fair to say that, yes, your character CAN still be a Dragoon without being a part of Ishgard's Order. It's about context. If you have a good story and you can explain your training, you're probably fine.
And as others have pointed out, there can't be 30 Dragoons in the whole of Ishgard. Maybe there's a reserve. Otherwise Ishgard would have lost the war a very long time ago, training to turn someone into a top shelf Dragoon can't happen overnight.
If you've done the Dragoon job quests, you still get called the Azure Dragoon. Your character is still referred to as a Dragoon without them ever being entered into an official ORDER.
While not everyone can be an Azure Dragoon, I'd say this is still fair to say that, yes, your character CAN still be a Dragoon without being a part of Ishgard's Order. It's about context. If you have a good story and you can explain your training, you're probably fine.
And as others have pointed out, there can't be 30 Dragoons in the whole of Ishgard. Maybe there's a reserve. Otherwise Ishgard would have lost the war a very long time ago, training to turn someone into a top shelf Dragoon can't happen overnight.