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.
1st Foreign Parachute Regiment – a rebel of the Foreign Legion
There has not been such a controversial regiment neither within the French Foreign Legion nor within the whole of French Army for decades. The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er REP). Two times completely destroyed during the heavy fights of the First Indochina War, the 1er REP became the well-respected and feared legendary elite unit. But, it also participated in the Generals’ putsch in Algiers in 1961 and played a lead role of it….
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3e REI and its Operation Morpho in French Guiana
At the end of May, the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI) of the French Foreign Legion was participating in Operation Morpho in French Guiana, an overseas region of France on the north Atlantic coast of South America. where the 3e REI is based.
Saint Georges 2013 of the 1er REC
Yesterday, the French Foreign Legion media center published a video of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) celebrating the anniversary of Saint Georges Day, a regimental holiday.
Heavy mortar units of the Foreign Legion in the First Indochina War
In October 1952, the Foreign Legion made a decision to create an independent heavy mortar unit. In 1954, there were three mortar units within the French Foreign Legion fighting in the First Indochina War. A parachute mortar company and the two infantry mortar companies composed of mixed elements: legionnaires and local anti-communist soldiers. These units used the 120mm heavy mortars. See history and a few images of the units.
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