Between April 4 and 10, 2024, the Foreign Legion’s 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI) organized a regimental maneuver, Exercise Desperado. About 300 legionnaires participated.
DLEM: 2024 DIO Training in Lesotho
From March 14 to 22, 2024, a detachment of the Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte (DLEM) provided a military training mission to their partners in Lesotho, a sovereign enclave of South Africa.
4e RE: 2024 Remise de Kepi blanc in Monaco
In early April 2024, a platoon of enlisted volunteers from the French Foreign Legion’s 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE) completed the initial four-week instruction and were allowed to take the oath. The ceremony took place exceptionally on April 4 in Monaco, a sovereign city-state and constitutional monarchy located on the French Riviera. It was presided over by Prince Albert II, head of state, and General Youchtchenko, head of the Foreign Legion.
13e DBLE, 1er REG: Ivory Coast 2023-2024
In February 2024, men of the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE) and the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) returned from West Africa’s Ivory Coast. They were deployed there for four months.
DOCUMENTS: 1902-1913 1st Foreign Regiment certificates of Leg. Masquère
Another part of the DOCUMENTS series. Enjoy rare documents issued by the 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE) in North Africa more than a century ago.
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1er REG: 2nd Company at Mont Ventoux
The 2nd Company of the French Foreign Legion’s 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) made a joint trip to reach the summit of Mont Ventoux, the highest mountain in the Provence region of Southern France. See images.
3e REI: 2024 Jaguar Course
See some nice images from the international Jaguar Course, a two-month jungle warfare course organized by the French Foreign Legion’s 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI). The annual course is designed primarily for platoon leaders (both NCOs and officers) from France, as well as allied nations around the world.
PHOTOS: Foum El Hassan Post in Morocco in the early 1940s
A new part of the PHOTOS series. See a rare set of pictures showing the Foum El Hassan Post, home of the former Automobile Mounted Company, 4th Foreign Infantry Regiment (CMA/4e REI) in southern Morocco in the early 1940s. No other similar set showing the Foum El Hassan Post’s interior is publicly known.
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2e REG: A platoon in New Caledonia in 2024
A platoon of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) of the French Foreign Legion is currently deployed to New Caledonia, a special overseas collectivity of France located east of Australia, in the Pacific Ocean.
13e DBLE: 4th Company in Djibouti in 2024
In February 2024, the 4th Company of the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE) deployed to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, a former homeland of this regiment. The company will remain there for four months.
Captain Pierre Bourgin (1924 – 1959)
On the 1st of March 1959, in the Souk Ahras region of northeastern Algeria, a French Foreign Legion paratrooper platoon was engaged by local insurgents. Advancing in the lead was a popular officer, Captain Pierre Bourgin. As soon as the first shots were fired, he was fatally wounded. In him, the Foreign Legion lost one of its rare poets. The following article was written in his memory.