Trail of the 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE). The first year of a 19 km (11,8 miles) long run with 1100 meters (3600 feets) of elevation difference took place in the country around Aubagne, the homebase and selection center of the French Foreign Legion, on October 16. See some pics and video.
Defence Minister visited the 4e RE and its new recruits
Jean-Yves Le Drian, the current French Minister of Defence, visited the 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE), the training unit of the French Foreign Legion on Friday, October 25. He also met the new recruits being trained at the “ferme“. See nice photos.
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2e REP and Saint Michel Day 2013
On September 29, the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) of the French Foreign Legion celebrated Saint-Michel Day (La Fête de Saint-Michel). Saint-Michel is appreciated as the patron of paratroopers. See video.
History of the first Foreign Legion parachute unit
During the First Indochina War, the Foreign Legion was demanded by French military authorities to create a parachute unit to support French infantry forces operating in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1946. In 1948, volunteers of the Legion regiments stationed in Indochina formed the first Foreign Legion airborne unit – the Parachute Company, attached to the 3e REI.
1976: Transfer of Basic Training Units from Corsica to Castelnaudary
Starting in June 1962, training units of the French Foreign Legion were based in Corsica, where they had arrived from Algeria. In October 1976, they left the island and moved to mainland France to be stationed in the town of Castelnaudary, in the southern part of the country.
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US Marines and Legionnaires in Tonga
Exercise Tafakula 2013. During the first half of September, the platoons from the United States Marine Corps, the Tongan armed forces and the French Foreign Legion realized an exercise in the Kingdom of Tonga, a Polynesian state in the southern Pacific Ocean.
1er REC will change its headquarters in 2014
The 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) of Foreign Legion will change its headquarters located in Orange, Vaucluse county, France. This information was confirmed by Yannick Blanc, Vaucluse county representative, on October 01.