On the 21st of July, the Foreign Legion Music participated on the Belgian National Day in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. The legionnaires showed their well-known excellent abilities to make the local visitors happy. See video.
1er REC official video clip 2013
Today, the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) has launched its new videoclip. See the fresh presentation of the only cavalry unit of the French Foreign Legion.
2e REP and 1er REC colors were decorated
On July 11, 2013, the regimental colors of the Foreign Legion’s 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) and 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) were decorated by Army General Bertrand Ract-Madoux, commander of the French Armed Forces, at Les Invalides in Paris. The regiments also participated at the Prises d’Armes military ceremony in the garden of the French Senate two days later. See a few images and videos.
Foreign Legion Bastille Day parade 2013
See the images of the French Foreign Legion marching on the 14th July 2013 on the Bastille Day parade, during this French National Day.
Parade training video
A few images of the legionnaires preparing for the tomorrow’s Bastille Day military parade, the most important and awaited French event of the year.
French Foreign Legion Tattoo and Tattoo Policy
French Foreign Legion and the tattoo. Are legionnaires tattooed or not? Are you allowed to be tattooed, when you are joining the Foreign Legion? Which is the French Foreign Legion tattoo policy?
Sports in the French Foreign Legion
French Foreign Legion sports. You are good at boxing and would like to continue training even in the Legion. Are you able to do so? Besides obligatory running, pushing-up and pull-ups, which sports activities are supporting by the Foreign Legion?
French Foreign Legion Weapons and Vehicles 2013
The French Foreign Legion is using various weapons and vehicles depending on what regiment, company or even a section it is. See a list of the large majority of its equipment with tens of pictures, information and well-ordered data. See the list of current equipment of the French Foreign Legion (2013).
French Foreign Legion Operations – June 2013
The Foreign Legion has always some of its units deployed outside of France. See a list of operations of the French Foreign Legion in June 2013.
A few images from the Legion’s basic training 2013
A few images from the French Foreign Legion basic training of 2013. If you are interested in the Legion or you are thinking about joining, you appreciate it.
History of the 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment
There is the only cavalry regiment within the today’s French Foreign Legion. But it was not always so. During the years of 1939-40 and 1946-62, the Foreign Legion used also the second cavalry regiment, 2e REC. Nicknamed “Dauphin Étranger”, the 2e REC was the last Foreign Legion unit based in Morocco, which it left in 1956 for participating in the Algerian War. In Algeria, the regiment was serving and fighting for more than five years, till the end of the war in 1962. See history and pictures of the 2e REC.