Between November 2 and December 12, 2020, yearly joint military manoeuvres called Wessex Storm take place on Salisbury Plain in Wessex, southern England. The six-week manoeuvres have to confirm the skills and readiness of the 2 PARA Battlegroup, the British Army’s leading response force, assigned to the 16 Air Assault Brigade. During the 2020 Wessex Storm exercise, a company of the French Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) and a US Army platoon have been included into the British battlegroup.
2e REP: Swift Response 2017 in Germany
Between October 2-20, a multinational airborne joint exercise, Swift Response 2017 – Phase II (17-2), occurred in Germany. Legionnaires from the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP), the only airborne unit of the French Foreign Legion, participated in.
Video: Exercise Iberian Star with the Spanish Legion
As previously mentioned, Exrcise Iberian Star 2014 took part in Spain in November 2014. Spanish legionnaires from Spanish Legion’s VIII Bandera (8th Battalion) and French legionnaires from the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) were involved in this exercise, together with Welsh and Irish soldiers from the British Army. See video.
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IBERIAN STAR 2014: French and Spanish legionnaires trained together
In the second half of last month, November 2014, Exercise IBERIAN STAR 2014 took place on the Chinchilla Training Area in the province of Albacete, southern Spain. Legionnaires of the French Foreign Legion and the Spanish Legion (former Spanish Foreign Legion), together with British soldiers were involved in the exercise.
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2e REP: 2014 Eagle Eyes exercise
As stated in our article Blue legionnaire: 2e REP trained with British Paras in Corsica, legionnaires from the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP), having finished the Blue legionnaire exercise, were waiting for another military exercise with the British paras – Eagle Eyes. See videos.
Blue legionnaire: 2e REP trained with British Paras in Corsica
Yesterday, on January 26, 2014, the training exercise called Blue legionnaire, in which the Legion and British paratroopers were participating in, was officially finished. It took two weeks, since January 12. Another two-weeks long exercise between the same units, called Eagle Eyes, will be started in Corsica next week, on February 03.
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