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2e REG: 2025 Summer High Mountain Team Leader Course

September 3, 2025 · Posted in 2reg

In August 2025, approximately a dozen legionnaires from the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) undertook the Summer High Mountain Team Leader Course in the French Alps, southeastern France. From the cliffs of Mont Aiguille in the Vercors Massif to the iconic ridgelines of La Meije in the Écrins range, the legionnaires were trained to take responsibility for their rope teams and to progress safely through complex alpine terrain.

Foreign Legion: 2025 Change of Command took place in six regiments

August 20, 2025 · Posted in 1re, 1rec, 1reg, 2reg, 4re, 5re

During the summer of 2025, several regiments within the French Foreign Legion underwent significant leadership changes, reflecting the regular rotation of senior officers across this elite force. These appointments are part of the French Army’s standard two-year command rotation cycle and affect both mainland and overseas units.

Foreign Legion: 2025 Bastille Day

July 18, 2025 · Posted in 13dble, 1rec, 1reg, 2reg, 2rei, 2rep, 3rei, 4re, bastille day, legion

On July 14, 2025, units of the French Foreign Legion took part in regional ceremonies across France to mark the country’s national holiday, Bastille Day. Each regiment participated in local commemorative events held in the vicinity of their respective garrisons, in coordination with civil and military authorities. In some cases, Legion elements were also present at celebrations held outside their usual locations.

Foreign Legion: 2025 Victory in Europe Day

May 12, 2025 · Posted in 1reg, 2reg, 2rei, 2rep, 3rei, 5re, grle, wwii

On May 8, 2025, Foreign Legion units took part in the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Honor guards from various regiments participated in ceremonies held primarily in their garrison towns, with several detachments also representing the Legion in other cities across their regions. Below are images from this year’s commemorations.

Foreign Legion: 2025 Camerone Day

May 6, 2025 · Posted in 13dble, 1re, 1reg, 2reg, 2rei, 2rep, 3rei, 4re, 5re, camerone

April 30, 2025, marked the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Camerone, the defining event in the French Foreign Legion’s history, when 62 legionnaires under the command of Captain Jean Danjou faced a force of 2,000 Mexican troops. Refusing to surrender, they fought to the very end, with only three able-bodied legionnaires left standing. Commemorations of this anniversary were held across all Legion units and garrisons, both in France and abroad. The following post includes images from several of these ceremonies.

2e REG: Heads of the French and Norwegian Armed Forces with Legionnaires in the Alps

April 2, 2025 · Posted in 2reg

At the end of March 2025, in the heart of the Alps, General Thierry Burkhard, Chief of the French Armed Forces, and General Eirik Kristoffersen, his Norwegian counterpart, held a detailed exchange on the expertise of mountain troops alongside the legionnaires of the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG), which specializes in mountain warfare and engineering support.

Foreign Legion: 2024 Christmas Challenges

January 10, 2025 · Posted in 1reg, 2reg, 2rep, 3rei, 4re, grle

Christmas Eve marks the second most important holiday in the French Foreign Legion. Before the actual celebrations, each Foreign Legion regiment organizes Christmas challenges. The challenges help to maintain cohesion within the units and provide a bit of fun for their hard-working men. See several images taken in different Foreign Legion regiments during the Christmas challenges that took place in late 2024.

2e REG: Exercise Cerces 2024

December 19, 2024 · Posted in 2reg

From November 19 to 27, 2024, more than 1,000 soldiers of France’s 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade (27e BIM) took to the field for Exercise Cerces 2024. For two weeks, they practiced maneuvering and firing, working on their combat skills in the complicated winter conditions. Among them were the legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG), the “mountain” regiment of the Foreign Legion.

1er REG, 2e REG: 2024 Saint Barbara Day

December 12, 2024 · Posted in 1reg, 2reg, comle

In early December 2024, the combat engineers of the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) and the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) of the French Foreign Legion once again commemorated their patron, Saint Barbara (Sainte Barbe in French).

Foreign Legion: 2024 Armistice Day

November 11, 2024 · Posted in 1rec, 2reg, 2rei, 2rep, 3rei, 5re, grle

Today, on November 11, 2024, the French Foreign Legion detachments participated in the ceremonies commemorating Armistice Day, to honor the memory of military veterans and those who died in the line of duty. See images.

1er, 2e REGs: 40th and 25th Anniversaries

October 16, 2024 · Posted in 1reg, 2reg

In late September and early October 2024, both engineers regiments of the French Foreign Legion, the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) and the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG), celebrated the anniversary of their creation. See the images.