Between February 16 and 29, 2016, legionnaires from the 2nd Company of the Foreign Legion’s 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI), the unit based in French Guiana, participated in a training course in Mexico.
1er REG: Amphibious exercise
A nice photo collection showing the 1st Company from the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG), one of the two engineer regiments of the French Foreign Legion, during an amphibious exercise..
French Foreign Legion: 185th Anniversary
On March 10, 2016, the French Foreign Legion commemorates the 185th anniversary of its founding on March 10, 1831. That day, a decree of the Council of State ratified the royal ordinance signed by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on March 9. In the Article 1re of this three-article ordinance, the king authorized to form a Legion of Foreigners (Légion d’Etrangers) inside France.
2e REI: More VBCI vehicles
The 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI), a motorized infantry unit of the French Foreign Legion stationed at Nimes (southern France), was reinforced by another 12 VBCI armored vehicles. The new ones arrived at the regiment on February 26, 2016.
13e DBLE: The strength of 1,300 men in 2018
During summer 2016, the 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion (13e DBLE) of the French Foreign Legion would leave the United Arab Emirates to be stationed in mainland France.
4e RE: Training at CENTAC 2016
Currently, around 600 legionnaires from the 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE), the training unit of the French Foreign Legion consisting of about 1,600 men now and based at Castelnaudary (southern France), are participating in military training at CENTAC (Combat Training Center), placed at Camp de Mailly, the base of the 5th Dragoon Regiment (5e RD).
Foreign Legion Operations: January 2016
See the official list of deployments of the French Foreign Legion units and their logistical support infrastructure outside of France, in operational areas around the world, in January 2016.
40th anniversary of the Loyada Rescue Mission
In February 1976 legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) and the 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion (13e DBLE) were involved in the rescue of 31 children in Loayada, a village on the border between today’s Djibouti and Somalia. The children were kidnapped in Djibouti, capital of the then French Territory of Afars and Issas (TFAI, formerly French Somaliland, today’s Djibouti), by four rebels from the Somali Coast Liberation Front (Front de Libération de la Côte des Somalis, FLCS), a pan-Somali guerrilla organization created in the 1960s and supported by the Somali government.
34th anniversary of the Mont Garbi accident
February 3. This day marks the 34th anniversary of the Mont Garbi accident, in which 29 members of the French Foreign Legion were killed, including a whole platoon of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP). The accident occurred in Djibouti, Africa. For the Legion, the 3rd February 1982 remains the most tragic day since the end of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954).
2e REG: Paying homage to the six killed legionnaires
On Tuesday, January 26, the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) of the Foreign Legion conducted a ceremony to pay homage to their comrades, the six legionnaires killed in the French Alps in an avalanche.
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2e REG: The sixth legionnaire caught by avalanche died
On Monday, January 25, the sixth legionnaire caught by the avalanche in the French Alps died from his injuries. He was among those fourteen members of the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) caught by the avalanche during mountain warfare basic training.
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