The Foreign Legion has always some of its units deployed outside of France. See the list of the French Foreign Legion operations in December 2013.
MALI
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2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG)
- team of the Intelligence and offensive action platoon (Section de renseignement et d’intervention offensive, SRIO) + supporting group
GABON
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1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC)
- 3rd Squadron – one peloton (platoon) with ERC 90 Sagaie, the six-wheeled armoured all terrain vehicles
– on December 11, the peloton was redeployed to the Central African Republic to join the Sangaris operation
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1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)
- one platoon
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
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1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC)
- one peloton (platoon), redeployed from Gabon
SENEGAL
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1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)
- Minesweeping/Demining instruction team
DJIBOUTI
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2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG)
- 2nd Company – one platoon
LEBANON
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2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG)
- Supporting/Instruction team
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP)
- 1st Company
FRENCH GUIANA
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2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment
- 3rd Company
Photos credit: Légion étrangère
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Related posts:
French Foreign Legion Operations – June 2013
French Foreign Legion Operations – January 2013
French Foreign Legion Operations – October 2014
1er REC and 2e REI: Central African Republic 2015