While a part of the 2e REG is in French Guiana now and the other part of the 2e REG is training for Mali, you can watch a short, authentic presentation of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) of the French Foreign Legion, made by a legionnaire from Brasil. As you can see, the legionnaires are really a bunch of good guys.
French Guiana is not only about the jungle training
French Guiana and the French Foreign Legion? It is not only about the jungle survival activity or the extreme jungle training in South America. Even the young legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) have understood that… Once you are a legionnaire, you have to work too!
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A company of 2e REG trained for Mali
The 1st Company of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) of the French Foreign Legion was training at La Courtine camp during the last two weeks of September, to be getting ready for Mali. The company is going to this hot African country in the beginning of January 2014. See photos.
2e REG – pay homage ceremony to the dead Senior Corporal
On 12th July 2013, Senior Corporal (Caporal-chef) Loureiro, a legionnaire from the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG), have died in an accident during the four-month mission in French Guiana. On July 25, the ceremony to pay homage to the dead Senior Corporal was organized within the 2e REG. The Irish legionnaire blogging about his life in the Legion was also present. See images.
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2e REG – even a legionnaire can laugh
The 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) is a French Foreign Legion engineer regiment specialized in mountain warfare. For that reason, new legionnaires arriving in the 2e REG are forced to learn rock climbing. However, it is a long way mission to become a “commando”…
Memorial hall inauguration in the 2e REG
In December 2012, an inauguration of the new Memorial hall took place in the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment of the French Foreign Legion in its base at Saint Christol, southern France.
Nice video clip of the 2e REG
A new and nice video clip of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG), the youngest regiment of the French Foreign Legion. It is dedicated to the 1st section of the 1st company of the only mountain regiment of the Legion.