On November 11, three companies (3rd, 4th and Command/Logistics) and one team of Commando Parachute Group (GCP) from the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) finished its week-long regimental exercise JURA 2013. The exercise took place just a few kilometers from Switzerland, in the Jura mountains of the Franche-Comté region, in eastern France, between 3rd and 10th of November 2013. See pics and video.
2e REI and US Marines trained together
Ten days ago, on November 01, a week-long exercise between the legionnaires and US Marines finished. It took place at Camp des Garrigues, an urban warfare military camp near Nimes, France. During the exercise, legionnaires from 2nd Company of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) and marines from SP-MAGTF (Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force for Crisis Response) were supported by MV-22B Osprey (an American multi-mission tiltrotor aircraft). See pics and video.
Eyesight: French Foreign Legion vision requirements
French Foreign Legion and eyesight requirements. Being nearsighted/shortsighted, being farsighted/longsighted. Color blindness. Do legionnaires wear glasses or contact lenses or do not? Am I allowed to wear glasses/specs or lenses while enlisting and serving in the Foreign Legion? What are the French Foreign Legion eyesight requirements?
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French Foreign Legion T-shirts
Welcome to the FOREIGN LEGION INFO, an online project that started in 2012. The website has become the largest online database to provide well-ordered information about the famous French Foreign Legion in the English-speaking world. Here you can find information related to the current joining requirements, current units, missions, traditions etc. But primarily, the website has been making an effort to collect the most accurate data and facts that help to map in detail the amazing history of the Foreign Legion.
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.
Trail of 1er RE 2013
Trail of the 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE). The first year of a 19 km (11,8 miles) long run with 1100 meters (3600 feets) of elevation difference took place in the country around Aubagne, the homebase and selection center of the French Foreign Legion, on October 16. See some pics and video.
Defence Minister visited the 4e RE and its new recruits
Jean-Yves Le Drian, the current French Minister of Defence, visited the 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE), the training unit of the French Foreign Legion on Friday, October 25. He also met the new recruits being trained at the “ferme“. See nice photos.
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2e REP and Saint Michel Day 2013
On September 29, the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) of the French Foreign Legion celebrated Saint-Michel Day (La Fête de Saint-Michel). Saint-Michel is appreciated as the patron of paratroopers. See video.
History of the first Foreign Legion parachute unit
During the First Indochina War, the Foreign Legion was demanded by French military authorities to create a parachute unit to support French infantry forces operating in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1946. In 1948, volunteers of the Legion regiments stationed in Indochina formed the first Foreign Legion airborne unit – the Parachute Company, attached to the 3e REI.
1976: Training units left Corsica for Castelnaudary
From June 1962, training units of the French Foreign Legion were based in Corsica, having arrived there from Algeria. In October 1976, they left the island and moved to mainland France to be stationed in the town of Castelnaudary, in the southern part of the country.
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US Marines and Legionnaires in Tonga
Exercise Tafakula 2013. During the first half of September, the platoons from the United States Marine Corps, the Tongan armed forces and the French Foreign Legion realized an exercise in the Kingdom of Tonga, a Polynesian state in the southern Pacific Ocean.