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The history of French airborne units began in the Interwar period when the French Armed Forces formed specialized paratroopers units. First formed in the French Air Force, they were rapidly integrated into the French Army, French Navy, National Gendarmerie and from the British Armed Forces. Some were later included in the postwar French Armed ...
The 11th Parachute Brigade (French: 11 e Brigade Parachutiste, 11 e BP) is one of the French Army's airborne forces brigade, predominantly light infantry, part of the French paratrooper units and specialized in air assault, airborne operations, combined arms, and commando style raids.
2e R.E.P is the only regiment of the 11th Parachute Brigade which trains their own paratroopers. The Legionnaires spend their parachute training in Calvi TAP within the walls of the regiment. All other French Army paratrooper units are trained at the École des troupes aéroportées (ETAP) in Pau.
The unit was created on 28 February 1951, in Hanoi as the "8th Colonial Parachute Battalion", as a part of the French union forces. Present since 1951 and to 1954, the "8th Colonial Parachute Battalion" fought at Lai-Chau, Hòa Bình, Langson and Dien Bien Phu heavily superiorly outnumbered.
The École des troupes aéroportées (ETAP), or School of Airborne Troops, is a military school [1] dedicated to training the military paratroopers of the French army. It was established in 1964 and is located in the town of Pau, in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
On October 15, 1941 the unit's name changed again, to the 1 er Compagnie de Chasseurs Parachutistes, (1 er C.C.P) (1st Parachute Chasseur Company). On January 1, 1942 the unit became the French Squadron of the Special Air Service under Major David Stirling, a special forces unit garrisoned at Kibrit Air Base on the Suez Canal.
On December 1, 1983; paratrooper Gallais died from his wounds during an ambush in Beirut. [10] Mandated to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), [1] the French paratroopers of the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment left Lebanon in February 1984. Only two years later; both paratroopers regiments of the 1st Parachute Chasseur ...
The 7th combat company of paratrooper training of the 1st Foreign rejoins Sétif 7 months later, starting November 15, 1949, to become officially the 3rd Foreign Parachute Battalion. [1] The mission of the 3 e BEP was to instruct and form the legionnaires destined to relieve the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (1 er B.E.P) and 2nd Foreign ...