See some images of legionnaires from the French Foreign Legion deployed in the Central African Republic (CAR) during June 2015. The legionnaires are working there together with soldiers from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) to stabilize this African country.
Foreign Legion: Bastille Day Military Parade 2015
On July 14, France celebrated Bastille Day 2015 with a military parade in Paris. The French troops, including the French Foreign Legion, marched down the Champs-Elysées. The Legion was represented by the Foreign Legion Pioneers, accompanied by the Foreign Legion Music Band and the legionnaires from the 3rd Comapny of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI). The 3e REI was participating in the parade for the first time since it has been placed in French Guiana.
MLE: Foreign Legion Music Band in Saumur
On 4 July 2015, the Foreign Legion Music Band (MLE) participated on the 16th International Military Tattoo Festival, which took place in Saumur, western France, July 3-5. The festival invited military bands from France, Switzerland, Mexico, Poland and Ukraine.
1er REC: Legion’s Cavalry in Mali 2015
A few images of cavalry legionnaires during an operation in Mali, June 2015. The legionnaires of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) are currently a part of GTD (Desert Tactic Group) MISTRAL in this African country, while serving in Operation Berkhane.
4e RE: A few images from Corporals course
See a few images of legionnaires from the French Foreign Legion during their eight-week-long Corporals course (CME), which took place in the 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE), a training unit of the Legion based in Castelnaudary, southern France.
2015 French Foreign Legion Recruiting Video
Change your life – Change ta vie! View the French Foreign Legion new recruiting video launched today on its YouTube canal. For more information about the recruitment visit the official recruiting web page of the Legion (in French) or see how to join the Foreign Legion page on our website (in English).
2e REI: Training for African deployment with US Marines
Legionnaires from the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) conducted an interoperability training exercise with U.S. Marine Corps membres from the Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response – Africa (SPMAGTF-CR-AF, based in Spain), at the end of May 2015.
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2e REI: 5th Company recreated
Yesterday, on June 15, a ceremony conducted by the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) took place in Nimes (southern France) in honor to the re-establishment of the 5th Company.
1er REG: Wake up, comrade!
A funny video made by a Russian legionnaire serving in the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG), one of the two engineer regiments of the French Foreign Legion, showing young legionnaires of this unit during their military lessons. You can see that even a legionnaire is not a Terminator-type killing machine and that he also needs to sleep a little bit…
2e REP: Camerone 2015 in Chad
A nice video showing legionnaires from the 1st Platoon, 1st Company, 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP), celebrating on 30 April their Camerone Day in N’Djamena in Chad (Central Africa), where the legionnaires have been deployed since January.
2e REP: Legionnaires seized 1,5 tons of drugs in Niger
On May 14, during Operation Kounama 3 taking place in the Salvador Pass of northern Niger (Sahara Desert, North Africa), the legionnaires from the French Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) seized 1,5 tons of drugs moved by rebels cooperating with regional, mostly Libyan extremists.
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