French Foreign Legion Information

Corsica 2016: Bear Grylls with the real French Foreign Legion

June 21, 2016 · Posted in 2rep

Ed “Bear” Grylls is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter, well-known for his Born Survivor/Man vs. Wild survival television series. Bear Grylls is also involved in a TV show titled Escape to the Legion, in which he and other “recruits” took part in basic desert training of a fictional Foreign Legion. But in recent weeks, Bear Grylls met with real legionnaires (paratroopers from the 2e REP) when he made the latest episode of NBC’s Running Wild TV show on the island of Corsica.

2e REP: Mud REP 2016

June 10, 2016 · Posted in 2rep, camerone

On April 30, 2016, legionnaires from the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP), the unit based on the island of Corsica, commemorated the 153rd Anniversary of the Battle of Camerone. Before the Camerone Day, several challenges were conducted by the regiment. Among them, Mud REP.

1er REP: Get a t-shirt with its badge design

May 31, 2016 · Posted in 1rep, designs

55 years ago, in 1961, the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er REP) of the French Foreign Legion was disbanded at lightning speed by then French president De Gaulle, because of its participation in the Generals’ Putsch of Algiers in late April 1961. To commemorate this famous and strictly disciplined unit, two times annihilated in combat and finally killed by a political decision, I re-designed the badge of 1er REP and published it in our store…

40th Anniversary: 1976 Djibouti helicopter crash

May 25, 2016 · Posted in 2rei, history

40 years ago, on May 24, 1976, the French Foreign Legion suffered its worst losses in a single incident since the end of the Algerian War in 1962. In the then French Territory of the Afars and the Issas (today’s Djibouti), six of its legionnaires died during a helicopter crash. Nevertheless, the accident will be totally forgotten during next 40 years. On the internet, there is no article in French (still less in English) being concerned with the accident, which still remains the second deadliest incident for the French Foreign Legion since the Algerian War ended…

38th Anniversary of the Battle of Kolwezi

May 18, 2016 · Posted in 2rep, history, kolwezi

On 17 May 1978, the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) of the French Foreign Legion was put on alert to get involved in an emergency operation in Kolwezi, an important mining center located in the Katanga province of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the second largest country of Africa.

3e REI: Camerone 2016 in French Guiana

May 11, 2016 · Posted in 3rei, camerone

On April 30, 2016, legionnaires from the Foreign Legion’s 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI), the unit based in French Guiana, commemorated the 153rd Anniversary of the Battle of Camerone.

Foreign Legion: Camerone Day 2016

May 1, 2016 · Posted in 1re, 2rei, 2rep, 4re, camerone

Every year, the French Foreign Legion commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Camerone, the most famous event in its history. Also in 2016, on April 30, Camerone Day, the officers, NCOs and legionnaires of the Foreign Legion commemorated the 153rd Anniversary of the battle. See Camerone Day videos from several Legion regiments.

2e REI: Infernal Run 2016

April 27, 2016 · Posted in 2rei

On April 15, the fourth Infernal Run event was organized by the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) at Camp de Garrigues near Nimes, its garrison, at the occasion of coming Camerone Day (April 30). Hundreds of legionnaires from 2e REI and other regiments of the French Foreign Legion participated in.

2e REG: In the mountains 2016

April 21, 2016 · Posted in 2reg

See some nice images of legionnaires from 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) taken during their March 2016 military course. The 2e REG legionnaires were involved in the course to receive the Military Skier Certificate (Brevet de Skieur Militaire, BSM).

Foreign Legion Operations: March 2016

April 10, 2016 · Posted in legion, operations

See the official list of deployments of the French Foreign Legion units and their logistical support infrastructure outside of France, in operational areas around the world, and a list of deployments in mainland France in support of Operation Sentinelle, both in March 2016.

3e REI: 2nd Company in Mexico

April 2, 2016 · Posted in 3rei

Between February 16 and 29, 2016, legionnaires from the 2nd Company of the Foreign Legion’s 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI), the unit based in French Guiana, participated in a training course in Mexico.