French Foreign Legion Operations – June 2013

The Foreign Legion has always some of its units deployed outside of France. See a list of operations of the French Foreign Legion in June 2013.

MALI

    1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)

  • group of the Operational Specialized Excavation (Fouille Opérationnelle Spécialisée, FOS)
  • Demining Operational Team (Equipe Opérationnelle de Déminage, EOD)
  • one combat company
    2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG)

  • team of the Intelligence and offensive action platoon (Section de renseignement et d’intervention offensive, SRIO)
2e REI Mali - colonel Eric Ozanne
Colonel Eric Ozanne (green beret), the head of the 2e REI, taking command of GTIA Desert, a groupement of French forces in Mali (May 22, 2013)

 

SENEGAL

 

IVORY COAST

    1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC)

  • one squadron
    1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)

  • one company
1er REC in Ivory Coast June 2013
Legionnaires of the 1er REC (green berets) during a ceremony dedicated to its chief, Lieutenant-colonel Rémi Bouzereau, taking command of French forces placed in Ivory Coast (June 17, 2013)

 

LEBANON

    1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)

  • Minesweeping/Demining instruction team

 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

    1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)

  • one platoon
    2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI)

  • one company

 

COMOROS ISLANDS

DLEM in Comoros 2013
Three legionnaires (on the right) of the DLEM detachment, making instruction for Comoran soldiers
(Comoros islands, June 2013)

 

FRENCH GUIANA

    1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)

  • one company
    2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG)

  • one platoon

 

FRENCH POLYNESIA (Mururoa atoll)

    1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG)

  • one engineer platoon

 

Photos credit: Ecpad.fr

 

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