1er REG: 2022 Bastille Day in Ivory Coast

Like their comrades from the 2e REG parading in Paris, even the combat engineers from the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) celebrated the French national day – Bastille Day – which took place on July 14. Not only in France, but in West Africa as well, in Ivory Coast.

See the images from the 2022 Bastille Day military parade that was held in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast. The Foreign Legion detachment was represented by a reinforced platoon of the 4th Company, 1er REG. That unit is currently deployed to this West African country together with legionnaires from the 5th Company, 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI). They maintain order in the country, as well as a French presence there within the Ivory Coast French Forces (FFCI), and train local soldiers.

1er REG - Ivory Coast - Abidjan - Bastille Day - 2022 - 14 July
4th Company 1er REG legionnaires parade in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, during the Bastille Day military parade, on July 14, 2022.

1er REG - Ivory Coast - Abidjan - Bastille Day - 2022 - 14 July

1er REG - Ivory Coast - Abidjan - Bastille Day - 2022 - 14 July

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