French Foreign Legion pic's

[pipaz]

http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20picts-2.JPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20pics-3.JPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20pics-4.FPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20pics-5.JPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20pics-6.JPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20pics-7.JPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20pics-8.JPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/legion%20pics-10.JPG
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/spyder11.jpg
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/spyder13.jpg
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/spyder14.jpg
http://www.netherworld.com/~spyder/images/spyder16.jpg

[Enduring Freedom]

Nice pic's :D

[Rantanplan]

Hmmm, I think I saw some of these pics in Reader's Digest some years ago.

Nice pics btw.

[MEGR]

woot

[lvlai]

good i love them

[Gatling]

yup, cool pics man,some of them{if not all} are from the southern region of Provence.I'd venture to say that it's the 1 regiment Etranger from Aubagne.

[pipaz]

i wish there was a link for foreign legions documentary i know they had one while back, ive seen it on discovery or tlc chanel....

[Lt_Crooks]

hey are there any of those guys in iraq? I mean the french said they would not send troops but ..... legionaires?

[RFSU]

Nup, they are by all deffinition French. Ex.... hell yeah just look at almost any PMC company.

[ZeroPositive]

excellent pics :D

[littlefrench]

hey are there any of those guys in iraq? I mean the french said they would not send troops but ..... legionaires?

There will be no legionnaire in Irak, a lot of the legionnaires are foreigners but the Legion belongs to french Army and the officiers are all French. No french or foreigners who belong to french army will die for this war.

[Far]

hey are there any of those guys in iraq? I mean the french said they would not send troops but ..... legionaires?

There will be no legionnaire in Irak, a lot of the legionnaires are foreigners but the Legion belongs to french Army and the officiers are all French. No french or foreigners who belong to french army will die for this war.

Pussies...

[Navy]

Stupid idiot.. :cantbeli:

Are you calling the Legion pussies? :roll:







Go there yourself, ya BRAVE MAN!

[pipaz]

hmm thats interesting i thought i saw few pics of legions in iraq, secondly legions go anywhere on the wold even though legions are part of french army they have nothing in common

[Far]

Stupid idiot.. :cantbeli:

Are you calling the Legion pussies? :roll:



No, more in direction to this comment:
"No french or foreigners who belong to french army will die for this war. " Still a little chapped over the French Governments short term memory of the price the Allied Forces paid when they asked for our help and support...

[AROUETLJ]

Some of you are so unbelievably stupid. The Foreign Legion goes where the Armed Forces Command orders it to go, and the Armed Forces carry out the Government's orders, and the French Government hasn't sent any troops to Iraq. Who the **** saw pictures of Legionnaires in Iraqi Freedom?

[AROUETLJ]

And let's stop this censorship of the word ****. It's so ****ing prudish.

[pipaz]

correction i didnot say Iraqi Freedom i said Iraq and yes there was Foreign Legion in iraq during desert storm just in case you didn't know

[n.ignomo]

FFL was only part of the operation.

[pipaz]

yes they where guarding coalitions left flank

[AROUETLJ]

Of course I know. No one was disputing that.

[littlefrench]

correction i didnot say Iraqi Freedom i said Iraq and yes there was Foreign Legion in iraq during desert storm just in case you didn't know

Yes that's right but when I said "there will be no legionnaire in Irak" I spoke about Iraqi Freedom. The Legion was in Irak in 1991.


legions are part of french army they have nothing in common

Same equipments, same officiers... The only one difference beetwen FFL and regiments like the marine corp (Infanterie de Marine) is that 70% of the legionnaires are foreigners but the legionnaires aren't the only one elite troops of the French Army. It's right that they have a special place in the french forces but you can't say they have nothing in common with the other french soldiers (particulary with the other elite troops).

[David Lehmann]

Hello,

French forces involved in the 1991 Gulf war :

About a total of 20,000 men :
- Army : 12,000 men in the "Daguet" division
- Navy : 6800 men and 34 vessels
- Air Force : 1200 men and 60 planes

The French ground contribution to the Coalition, designated 'Division Daguet', was essentially the 6e DLB (6th light armoured division) much reinforced. The first to arrive at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, in September of 1990 the 2nd REI, the 1st REC, and most of the 6eme REG provided, with the 1st Spahis. Only 44 MBTs but many light AFVs like the AMX10RC. This division was the western wing of the attack.

- 2e RIMa (2nd marine infantry regiment)
- 3e RIMa (3rd marine infantry regiment)
- CRAPs (Commandos d'action et de recherche en profondeur = deep ops cdo unit, about 120 men)
- 13e RDP (13rd Airborne Dragoon Regiment, recce special forces)
- 1e REC (1st foreign cavalry regiment)
- 2e REI (2nd foreign infantry regiment)
- 6e REG (6th foreign engineer regiment)
- 1e Spahis (1st Spahis regiment, recce)
- 1e RHP (1st airborne hussard regiment)
- 4e Régiment de Dragons (4th Dragoons regiment, MBTs)
- 17e RGP (17th airborone engineer regiment)
- 35e RAP (35th airborne artillery regiment)
- 11e RAM (11th marine infantry regiment)
- 6e RCS (6th commanding and support regiment)
- 17e RCS (17th commanding and support regiment)
- 7e RPCS (6th airborne commanding and support regiment)
- 28e RT (28th signal regiment)

(in bold the FFL units)

CRAPs and the 13e RDP operated behind enemy lines long before the attack. One team of the 13e RDP had been captured if I remember well.
Men of the 2e REI and 6e REG had penetrated 5 km into Iraq on the night of 22nd February to take "Natchez" an Iraqi post dominating their line of advance up an escarpment. Legionnaire sappers and the US 1/27th Engineers had built a track up the escarpment on the 23rd.

The French columns of the Daguet division operated with elements of the 81st airborne division and covered the Coalition left flank. It punched through the Iraqi 45th division with considerable ease, and took their objective, the town and airfield of AS Salman by morning of the 26th, some 3000 Iraqi prisoners were taken.

The French lost 2 CRAP commandos and 2 engineers from the 6th REG on a mine/bobby trap (no single tank or helicopter has been lost).

The Iraqi division was crushed :
3000x POWs
7000x fleeing Iraqis
20x T-55 and T-62 destroyed
2x T-69 captured
17x light tanks destroyed
120x trucks destroyed
26x guns destroyed
40x guns captured
70x heavy mortars captured
700x tons of weapons/ammunitions/explosives captured

All the Iraqi infrastructures were captured and 500 tons of the captured ammo were destroyed in a single explosion.

After the battle,

the French engineers on the battlefield captured :
1x APC
1x T-55
1x T-59
1x 122mm gun
2x 152mm gun
11x mortars (60mm and 82mm)
3x 90mm guns
7x 14.5mm quadruple AA guns
1x 14.5mm HMG
1x 7.62mm MMG
824x AK-47
19x RPK LMG
17x various rifles
47x RPG-7

these engineers destroyed also :
1x 90mm gun
11x 152mm guns
12x 122mm guns
9x recoiless 57mm guns
10x 14.5mm quadruple AA guns
4x 57mm AA guns
107x various vehicles
2x 3000m runways
2x powerplants
1x fuel dump
1x water dump
1x water pumping station
1x control tower
5x bunkers
2x NBC shelters
1x police station

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Concerning the FFL :

According to the official website, the Legion today consists of 394 officers (90% French officers from French military schools the other coming from men of the troops climbing ranks probably), 1705 NCOs and 5768 Legionnaires organized in 10 regiments (other sites give 408 officers, 1724 NCOs and 5530 Légionnaires) .... it's changing, grossly about 7500-8000 men.

An other site, apparently not updated indicates that for the nationalities :
53.5% are french speaking (47% from France)
12.5% latin
11% german
7% anglo-saxon
5% slav
11% others
The % of the different nationalities vary according to misc. factors (economical situation f.e.) after WW2 there were more Germans. The % of French is always around 50% but today the proportion of slavs has significantly increased since the collapse of the Eastern Block and due to harsh economical situations. Even a few Japanese can be found in the French Foreign Legion.

In 1998 there were 138 different nationalities.
42% of the men were French (90% of the officers are French)
40% of the men were slavians

There are no real official records of the strength of the Legion during history available, however since 1831 this has varied between 2700 and 45,000. With a complement of regular soldiers of about 5000 until 1875, in 1932 there were 33,000 and by 1940 45,000, in total until December 1999 there have been some 670,000 Legionnaires.

Location of the regiments since the 5e RE has been disbanded (was in French Polynesia) :

Metropolitan France :
- 1e RE in Aubagne
- 2e RE in Castelnaudary
- 2e REP in Calvi
- 1e REC in Orange
- 1e REG in Laudun
- 2e REI in Nîmes
- 2e REG in Saint Christol

- 3e REI in Kourou (Guyana), also to protect the Ariane space installations
- 13e DBLE in Djibouti
- DLEM in Mayotte

Code of Honor rule n°2 : "Every Légionnaire is your brother-in-arms, irrespective of his nationality, race or creed. You will demonstrate this by an unwavering and straightforward solidarity, which will always bind together members of the same family. This is how a Legionnaire can say from very depths of his soul. "Legio Pastria Nosta" "The Legion Is my Home"

Regards,

David