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As informed earlier in June, the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC), currently the only Foreign Legion cavalry regiment, opened their new Commando Training Center (CIAC) this May, near Marseille. See a detailed, fresh presentation video.
Read more1er REC: Get to know the regiment’s new Commando Training Center
In July 2021, six Foreign Legion regiments have already had their new commanding officers. As usually, the commanders had spent two years in command. See images.
Read moreForeign Legion: 2021 Change of Command took place in six regiments
This Wednesday marked Bastille Day, the French National Day of the 14th July. As usually, a military parade occurred in Paris that day. While the previous year was the parade significantly reduced, due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the popular event was back to normal this year. As always, the French Foreign Legion was represented.
In late May 2021, the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC), the only cavalry unit currently serving within the French Foreign Legion, opened its new commando training center. The first course took place there between May 16 and 28. See the images.
Watch another useful video published by the official French Foreign Legion channel on YouTube starring Major Gérald, the head of the Sports Office of the 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE). This time, you will be learnt how to make you a better runner. Very important for those who think about joining the Legion.
Read moreForeign Legion: Interval training running with Major Gérald
The only cavalry unit currently serving within the French Foreign Legion, 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC), released a video to commemorate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the regiment.
Read more1er REC: Video to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the regiment
In late October 2020, the French Foreign Legion’s commander-in-chief, General Alain Lardet, came to visit the cavalrymen from the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) at their Camp Carpiagne near Marseille and combat engineers from the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) at their base in Laudun.
At Camp Carpiagne in early September 2020, the officers and legionnaires of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC), the French Foreign Legion’s only cavalry unit, attended a regimental gathering to celebrate their regained unity, after 11 months of deployments.
If you are interested in the French Foreign Legion, you can watch some rare and interesting French documentaries from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, recently posted on YT, showing the then Legion and legionnaires.
Read moreForeign Legion: Old documentaries – 1er RE, 13e DBLE, 1er REC, 2e REI
See the French Army’s nice report on Foreign Legion military activities in the important three-border region of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, situated in the Sahel area of West Africa, around April-May 2020, aimed at local armed terrorist groups (GAT).
Read moreOperation Barkhane: Immersion in the three-border region
While the vast majority of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) has been currently deployed to Mali in West Africa since this February for at least four months, there are two squadrons which remain in France, at the regiment’s Camp Carpiagne near Marseille.
Read more1er REC: Activities for 3rd ESC and ECL in France in June 2020