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64 years ago, a major confrontation between the French and the Viet Minh started. It took place in northeastern Vietnam, in then French Indochina. On March 13, 1954, the French garrison of Dien Bien Phu was attacked. After several hours of bloody assaults, the enemy would overrun one of the important French strongpoints…
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In February 2018, legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) conducted a joint military exercise in southern France, together with men of the United States Marine Corps (USMC).
Last Friday, February 23, 2018, the Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) participated in opening an international rugby match at the stade Orange Vélodrome of Marseille, France. The Band opened the match by playing France’s national anthem, La Marseillaise. See the nice videos.
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In January and February 2018, two French TV channels published new documentaries portraying the Foreign Legion, its recruiment process, basic training at the farm near Castelnaudary and the life in the Legion. Enjoy watching these interesting videos.
As part of the modernization of the French Armed Forces, a new assault rifle will be delivered to French units within the next ten years. The German-made Heckler & Koch HK 416 F (French version). Hundreds of them have already been delivered to several French Foreign Legion units in 2017. Other HK 416 F rifles would be delivered to legionnaires in 2018.
The official channel of the French Foreign Legion released a new video showing the previous year of 2017 in retrospective, to present the most important events captured on camera by the Legion.
Yesterday, February 7, 2018, the Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) performed an excellent concert in Paris, dedicated to the soldiers wounded during military operations and the families of those soldiers killed in action. The annual charitable concert is organized by the Military Governor of Paris. For its high prestige, the Foreign Legion Music Band was asked to be the main participant in this important event.
36 years ago, in early February 1982, an air accident occurred in Djibouti, Horn of Africa. A French military aircraft crashed into Mont Garbi. An entire Foreign Legion platoon of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) perished. This accident has remained the most tragic event for the Legion since the end of the First Indochina War (1954).
The French Foreign Legion published a new informative documentary dedicated to its own recruiting process. The new documentary, accompanied with English subtitles, provides potential candidates with a lot of useful information about joining the Foreign Legion and becoming a legionnaire in 2018.
After four months spent in Estonia, legionnaires left this Baltic state and returned to France. The detachments from the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) and 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) were sent to Estonia to participate in Mission Lynx.
Read more2e REI + 1er REG: Legionnaires finished their mission in Estonia
Around 400 legionnaires of the 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion (13e DBLE) are ready to deploy to Africa to join Operation Barkhane taking place in Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger.
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