2e REI: 2022 Activities in Djibouti | French Foreign Legion Information

Since June 2022, a company of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) is deployed to Djibouti, Horn of Africa, to form part of the French garrison there. See some images of the unit’s activities…

As was informed earlier, the company arrived in Djibouti along with their comrades from the 1er REC and 1er REG and have became part of the 5th Overseas Combined-arms Regiment (5e RIAOM) since then. The legionnaires are stationed at Quartier Monclar, formerly home to the 13e DBLE.

In Djibouti, apart from daily training, the 2e REI men carry out the usual tasks: maintaining a French presence in the region that once used to be a French colony, conducting military exercises with U.S. soldiers from the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, providing military instruction to the local forces, as well as familiarizing with a semi-desert environment.

Their current deployment in the Horn of Africa is planned for four months, until October.

2e REI - Djibouti - 2022 — 2e REI legionnaires during the Bastille Day ceremony in Djibouti, July 14, 2022.

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