On June 3, 2021, Captain Bastien Ulm died in service in southeastern France. He was a member of the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG), the so-called “Mountain Regiment”.
Captain Bastien Ulm died during a mountaineering training in the Beaufortain Massif, a massif of the French Alps in the Savoie department. He was 34 years old.
Married and father of two, Captain Bastien Ulm was born in France in March 1987. He joined the French Army in September 2006 and became a non-commissioned officer within a mountain warfare unit, as a radio operator. Sergeant Ulm served in Kosovo (ex-Yugoslavia) and in Afghanistan. From 2013 to 2016, he attended schools for officers. In 2016, when leaving the studies, Lieutenant Ulm chose the 2e REG and was appointed a mountain platoon leader. With his unit, he participated in operations in Africa: in Ivory Coast and Mali. Promoted to captain, he took over a mountain security office of the regiment in 2020, and served as a mountaineering training supervisor.
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