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  2. French Foreign Legion - Wikipedia

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    The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, and sea transport protected by the French Navy survived three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.

  3. List of French Foreign Legion units - Wikipedia

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    Foreign Brigade (unit designation in 1854 for two merged foreign regiments during the Crimean War) Mounted Companies (Compagnies montées de la Légion étrangère) – 1881; Saharan Companies of the French Foreign Legion, Saharan Companies and Squadrons of the French Foreign Legion – (CSPLE, ESPLE) – 1901

  4. Overseas military bases of France - Wikipedia

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    The maintenance of overseas military bases enable the French Armed Forces to conduct expeditionary warfare, and often tend to be located in areas of strategic or diplomatic importance. In the French terminology, the "prepositioned forces" consist of the "sovereignty forces" based in the Overseas France and the "forces of presence" based abroad.

  5. French forces in Djibouti - Wikipedia

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    The French forces in Djibouti (FFDj) (French: Les forces françaises stationnées à Djibouti, lit. 'The French forces stationed in Djibouti') is a French overseas military base. It constitutes one of the larger French military contingents outside France. The French military has remained present in Djibouti since the

  6. Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte - Wikipedia

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    The Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte (DLEM) is an infantry regiment of the French Army. The DLEM [4] and all regiments of the Legion, under French command, differentiate from all armies of the world due to, that their Legion Majors, Legion Adjudant Chefs and Legion Adjudants, form both a French and non-French (Foreign) elite composition.

  7. Inside the French Foreign Legion commando course that puts US ...

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    "The French are good, and their Foreign Legion is top-notch," a Green Beret with the Army National Guard told Insider. Inside the French Foreign Legion commando course that puts US troops to the ...

  8. History of the French Foreign Legion - Wikipedia

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    The Foreign Legion subsequently found a permanent home in the ranks of the French military. The Foreign Legion's history spans across the Conquest of Algeria, the Franco-Prussian War, numerous colonial exploits, both World Wars, the First Indochina War, and the Algerian War.

  9. 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (French: 2e Régiment étranger de parachutistes, 2e REP) is the only airborne regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. [5] It is one of the four infantry regiments of the 11th Parachute Brigade and part of the spearhead of the French rapid reaction force.