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3 de abr. de 2024 · Learn what pistol, rifles, machine guns, missile systems, personnel carriers, and other equipment are used by the Foreign Legion in the 2020s. See what the active legionnaires are equipped with during their training, guard duties, ceremonies, maneuvers, deployments, and military operations in France or abroad. Dozens of pictures.
- Joining
Welcome to the information page on how to join the French...
- Links
A lot of French Foreign Legion official, unofficial, history...
- Units
The well-ordered list of existing units of the French...
- 4e RE
The 4th Foreign Regiment serves as a training unit of the...
- 1er REG
1er Régiment Étranger de Génie, 1er REG.One of the two...
- 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment
The 3e REI is the heir to the Foreign Legion Operational...
- 2e REG
2e Régiment Étranger de Génie, 2e REG.The newest regiment of...
- 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment
It comprises around 1,300 officers and legionnaires. A...
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The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère) is an elite corps of the French Army that consists of several specialties: infantry, cavalry, engineers, and airborne troops. It was created in 1831 to allow foreign nationals into the French Army.
Modern equipment of the French Army is a list of equipment currently in service with the French Army. Figures are provided by the Ministry of Armed Forces for 2021.
NameOriginTypePhotoStandard camouflage pattern of the French ...Desert camouflage of the French Armed ...Snow camouflage of the French Armed ...France United StatesVarious uniforms seen worn by operators ...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.
- Introduction
- Why The Mule-Mounted Companies?
- Organization of The First Mounted Companies
- South Oran and Morocco Before 1914
- First World War
- Morocco and The Rif War in The 1920s
- Syria in The Levant
- The End of The Pacification of Morocco
- Motorization of Mounted Companies
- Second World War
The very first Foreign Legion company equipped with mules (hybrid of a male donkey and a female horse), and composed exclusively of foot soldiers, was created in early 1866, during the French Intervention in Mexico (1862-67). The company served as a counter-guerrilla unit to cover the evacuation of the French expeditionary force. This company was d...
It was then in South Oran in October 1881, under the command of Colonel de Négrier(the then four-battalion Legion’s commanding officer, since July), when the first mule-mounted company was created. Within a military column, such unit is intended to move forward, to pursue the cunning and higly-mobile mounted enemy and to force him to fight face to ...
In 1884, mounted companies became a Legion specialty; those of Zouaves and Tirailleurs will be dissolved. The organization of the Mounted Company (Compagnie Montée) has already been completed. It is made up of several pelotons (platoons); however, a peloton of the Mounted Company can comprise, in certain periods, up to 120 men. The legionnaires are...
Until the mid-1890s, one infantry company of the Legion is periodically transformed (for about a year) into a Mounted Company when deployed to South Oran. Thereafter, each of the two Foreign Legion regiments possessed such a company, until 1904. Since then, each regiment provided two rotating Mounted Companies (formed by different infantry units) t...
During the First World War (1914-18), the three Montées remained in Morocco. Their main mission was to escort convoys, build posts and be part of the mobile groupements operating against local insurgents. The 1re CM/1er RE is in the region of Taza (northern Morocco), later in Bou Denib (at the border with Algeria’s South Oran). The company was ment...
After the war, the Legion was reorganized. The two old regiments, heavily reduced by the war, are fully reformed in 1921. In addition, another two Legion infantry regiments (3e REI + 4e REI) were established in Morocco in late 1920. The four Mounted Companies lost their autonomy and are incorporated. Now, the regiments have a mounted company each; ...
At the same time, between 1921 and 1925, two Mounted Companies were created in the Levant (Near East), during the French pacification of Syria and Lebanon. They were assigned to the two battalions of the 4e REI being deployed there: the 13e CM of the 4th Battalion and the 17e CM of the 5th Battalion. Rare units, very little known, they were used fo...
In October 1929, while patrolling the Algeria-Morocco border, two platoons of the little-known CMA/1er REI are furiously attacked by local Berber rebels in Djihani, south of Meridja(the unit’s garrison in the Béchar region). Of the company’s 80 legionnaires, 52 are killed + 8 wounded. In August 1930, the 1re CM/2e REI of Captain Fouré was attacked ...
Towards the end of the 1920s, the Legion began to be motorized. The first Legion units equipped with vehicles are the 5th + 6th Squadron of the 1er REC(Cavalry), created in South Oran and in Morocco in 1929. A few months later, the first Mounted Company will be motorized. For these mobile light infantry units, the introduction of the engine margina...
During the Second World War, the last two Mounted Companies stayed in North Africa. In 1939 and 1940, because of the French declaration war on Germany, they sent a third of their men to Legion units being formed in mainland France. In June 1940, the Armistice was signed between the Third Reich and the French government. The war is over for now. The...
19 de sept. de 2012 · The French Foreign Legion is a unit of the French Army open to people aged 18 to 40 of any nationality. Potential recruits are required to serve for at least five years and are admitted regardless of their past and without personal documents.
This article lists the principal units of the Foreign Legion in the French Army created since 1831. Legion units are only cited once, based on their respective dates of creation. A dissolved Legion unit which is recreated under the same designation will only appear once.
