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In late August 2025, 42 enlisted volunteers from the French Foreign Legion’s 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE) officially became legionnaires after completing a demanding 34-mile (55 km) march and receiving the iconic White kepi during a solemn ceremony in Charbonnières-les-Vieilles, central France.
Read more4e RE: 2025 Remise de Kepi blanc in Charbonnières-les-Vieilles
The 3rd Company of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) specializes in amphibious operations and includes the Army Divers Group (GPAT), whose combat divers infiltrate underwater using closed-circuit rebreathers, carry out reconnaissance, and mark approaches to waterborne objectives. Only the most capable candidates will earn their place among these elite combat divers.
Read more2e REP: 2025 Pre-Selection for GPAT Army Combat Divers
On Tuesday, September 2, 2025, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) officially commemorated the 122nd anniversary of the 1903 Battle of El Moungar and paid tribute to the 36 men of the regiment who had fallen during it.
In August 2025, approximately a dozen legionnaires from the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) undertook the Summer High Mountain Team Leader Course in the French Alps, southeastern France. From the cliffs of Mont Aiguille in the Vercors Massif to the iconic ridgelines of La Meije in the Écrins range, the legionnaires were trained to take responsibility for their rope teams and to progress safely through complex alpine terrain.
Read more2e REG: 2025 Summer High Mountain Team Leader Course
95 years ago, on August 31, 1930, a small French Foreign Legion unit found itself surrounded by thousands of tribal fighters in a semi-desert land of southeastern Morocco. Outnumbered and abandoned by most of their auxiliaries, fewer than 200 legionnaires fought for hours against overwhelming odds…
Read more95 years ago: A bloody clash in southeastern Morocco
Between August 2 and 25, 2025, legionnaires from the 4th Company, 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI), 6th Light Armored Brigade, were integrated with U.S. Marines of the 6th Marine Regiment for a three-week training deployment at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California.
During the summer of 2025, several regiments within the French Foreign Legion underwent significant leadership changes, reflecting the regular rotation of senior officers across this elite force. These appointments are part of the French Army’s standard two-year command rotation cycle and affect both mainland and overseas units.
Read moreForeign Legion: 2025 Changes of Command in six regiments
The latest part in our series on interesting photographs presents an exceptionally rare collection depicting members of the first officially established Saharan unit of the French Foreign Legion, spanning from mid-1939 to the weeks following the Allied landings in North Africa in late 1942. These images include the only publicly known photographs of a Foreign Legion Saharan unit taken before the Second World War.
Read morePHOTOS: Foreign Legion Saharan Battery from 1939 to 1942
At the end of July 2025, the village of Les Cammazes in the Tarn department of southern France hosted a Remise de Képi blanc ceremony, during which a platoon of enlisted volunteers from the 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE) took their oath, received the iconic white képi, and officially became legionnaires.
25 years ago, on August 7, 2000, a tragic accident occurred near Castelnaudary, France, when a truck carrying recruits from the 4th Foreign Regiment (4e RE), the school of the French Foreign Legion, left the road and crashed into a tree.
Read more25 years ago: Tragic accident involving Foreign Legion recruits in August 2000
In late July 2025, the 4th Squadron of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) became the new 1st Company of the 5th Foreign Regiment (5e RE) in Mayotte, Indian Ocean.