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  2. Honneur et Fidélité - Wikipedia

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    Honneur et Fidélité ("Honour and Fidelity") is the motto of the Foreign Legion in the French Armed Forces. It has been inscribed on Legion flags instead of the Honneur et Patrie (Honour and Fatherland) inscribed on flags of the regular French Army of the French Republic. Nevertheless, both mottos share a similar past.

  3. Fourragère - Wikipedia

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    For example, the famous Foreign Legion regiment the 3rd Foreign Infantry wears a double fourragère red and green with red stripes (9 mentions during World War I), with an olive red with green stripes (3 mentions during World War II) and a fourragère yellow with green stripes, with an olive red and blue (5 mentions during Overseas Wars).

  4. French Foreign Legion - Wikipedia

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    The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère, also known simply as la Légion, "the Legion") is a corps of the French Army created to allow foreign nationals into French service. [8] The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several specialties, namely infantry , cavalry , engineers , and airborne troops . [ 9 ]

  5. Kepi - Wikipedia

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    The Foreign Legion resumed wearing it in 1926; [8] initially in red and blue, and then in 1939, with white covers on all occasions. The bulk of the French army readopted the kepi in the various traditional branch colours for off-duty wear during the 1930s. It had now become a straight-sided and higher headdress than the traditional soft cap.

  6. 2nd Foreign Parachute Battalion - Wikipedia

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    On May 7, the foreign marching battalion is dissolved and the 2 e BEP is recreated by members of the 3rd Foreign Parachute Battalion. [2] On June 1, 1954, the 2 e BEP leaves Asia on November 1, 1955. [2] The colors of the battalion are decorated with 6 citations at the orders of the armed forces and the fourragère of the colors of the Legion ...

  7. 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment (French: 2 e Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie, 2 e REC) was a cavalry regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. the regiment was dissolved twice, in 1946 and 1962; the regimental colors have been entrusted to the Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte since 1984.

  8. 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment - Wikipedia

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    On July 1, 1984, Foreign Legion Groupment, G.L.E Commander, général Jean-Claude Coullon assisted to the patronization ceremony marking the enacting of the 6th Foreign Engineer Regiment, 6 e R.E.G. [7] For the first time in Legion history, the colors of a French foreign legion regiment included the inscription "Génie". [7]

  9. Lizard (camouflage) - Wikipedia

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    Two French Foreign Legion paratroopers in Kolwezi in 1978. Horizontal lizard patterns in different colour forms were made by the French. A copy of the French pattern, made in Asia, was adopted by some African countries such as Chad, Gabon, Rwanda, and Sudan. In around 1970 Cuba designed a gray variety, used by Cuba and by the FAPLA of Angola.