French Foreign Legion information. An online project dedicated to the famous Foreign Legion.
A very nice photo slideshow made by an Italian ex-legionnaire who served in the French Foreign Legion between August 1987 and August 1992, in the majority in the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP).
Read moreSlideshow: 5 years in the Foreign Legion 1987 – 1992
Young legionnaires who just joined the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) of the French Foreign Legion after finishing their 4-month-long basic training, are obliged to pass the Basic Specialty Training (Formation de Spécialité Initiale, FSI) conducted by their new regiment, to get initial combat engineering skills.
French Foreign Legion units participating in operations outside of France. See the list of their location in the world in October 2014.
On October 19, 2014, in front of the Arc de Triomphe (Arch of Triumph) at the western end of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, 58 young volunteers from the 1st Platoon, 2nd Company of Enlisted Volunteers (2e CEV) of the 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE) received their Képi blanc and became legionnaires during the White Kepi Ceremony (Remise de Képi blanc). The ceremony took place in front of the Arc de Triomphe for the first time in the Legion’s history.
Videos launched by the French Foreign Legion, captured in the Central African Republic (CAR) in September 2014. They show legionnaires from the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) and 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) doing their job during Operation Sangaris, taking place in this African country.