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The Cameroon Armed Forces (French: Forces armées camerounaises (FAC)) are the military of the Republic of Cameroon. The armed forces number 40,000 [ 3 ] personnel in ground, air, and naval forces. There are approximately 40,000 troops in the army across three military regions.
Used by the Army. FN MAG Belgium: General-purpose machine gun: Standard-issue machine gun for the army. [4] M2 Browning United States Belgium: Heavy machine gun: Standard-issue heavy machine gun for all branches of the army. [5] Anti-tank weapon; BGM-71 TOW United States: Anti-tank missile: 24 launchers and 250 missiles delivered in 1990. [6 ...
The Military ranks of Cameroon are the military insignia used by the Cameroon Armed Forces. Being a former colony of France , Cameroon shares a rank structure similar to that of France . [ 1 ]
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The Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide, or BIR) is an elite military force [1] and an army combat unit of the Cameroonian Armed Forces. [2]The unit is supported by the United States, reports directly to the president of Cameroon, and has played a large part in the Cameroonian and regional war against Boko Haram.
Cameroon's population of nearly 31 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French, or both. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest.
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French and English are official languages, a heritage of Cameroon's colonial past as a colony of both France and the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1961. Eight out of the ten regions of Cameroon are primarily francophone and two are anglophone. The official percentage of French and English speakers is estimated by the Presidency of Cameroon to be ...