La Legion

[Guttorm]

Anyone got any good, updated pictures of the Frence foreign legion?

[Vance]

I beileve the correct term is 'Le' Legion. Legion is masculine. ;)

[Guttorm]

Thanks... I don't speak French, so I wouldn't know. :)

[uri]

http://www.frenchforeignlegion.org/

http://www.foreignlegionlife.com/

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[morlick]

it's "la légion" ;)

[Dave the Dawg]

Maybe not super-recent, but here are some pics from the official website of the Bureau de Recrutement de la Légion Etrangère:

http://www.br-legion.com/images/homme5.jpg

http://www.br-legion.com/images/LegM16.jpg

http://www.br-legion.com/images/dromad.jpg

http://www.br-legion.com/images/i21_g.jpg

[Vance]

it's "la légion" ;)
Why would it be la? Surely Legion is not feminine.

[Guttorm]

Legion with m16/diemaco? Surly it must be somkind of trying another units guns.

[ivandebono]

In French, "Legion" is feminine. So it's La Legion.

[Vance]

Crazy French.

[Guttorm]

http://www.frenchforeignlegion.org/

http://www.foreignlegionlife.com/

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ANd I own the book that foreignlegionlife.com talks about.
And the other one was crap... :)

[Bulkowski]

Crazy French.
La also can mean it (fem), the, or her...Insane is a better word

[[AFSOC]]

http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/posters/images/tn_osamadam.jpg

THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE!!!

[21eRIMA]

More at : http://www.legion-etrangere.info/site/foto.php

[Kriz]

I beileve the correct term is 'Le' Legion. Legion is masculine. ;)

In French all words ending with -ion are female, so also la legion.

[grendel]

http://www.br-legion.com/images/dromad.jpg

Jean-Claude van Damme?

[wreck]

http://www.br-legion.com/images/dromad.jpg

Jean-Claude van Damme?
Hehe, same thing came to my mind.

maybe it's from his film "the legionnaire", which is actually quite funny 'cos it's has nothing to do with reality rofl

[Aegirsson]

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/Cote%20d%27ivoire/ci9.jpg

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/Cote%20d%27ivoire/ci5.jpg

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/brazza%202/brazza1.jpg

1ere cie : "compagnie en zone urbaine" :

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/1er%20comp/1cie2.jpg

2eme cie : "compagnie de montagne" :

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/2eme%20cie/2cie6.jpg

3eme cie : "compagnie amphibie" :

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/3eme%20cie/3cie.jpg

4eme cie : "destruction et snipers" :

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/4%27eme%20cie/4cie2.jpg

gcp : "groupes commandos parachutistes" (they are our "sas") :

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/CRAPS/crap.jpg

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/craps-1.jpg

and mutch more photos on : http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com (sorted by conflicts where legion got involved).

[Miles Teg]

Before someone ask for it :

http://www.legion-etrangere-parachutiste.com/Cote%20d%27ivoire/ci5.jpg

The sniper gun is a PGM Hecate in 12,7 mm

http://users.belgacom.net/jm.armes/PGM-50/fte50-1.jpgHecate II

http://users.belgacom.net/jm.armes/PGM-50/nemesis1.jpgShort version

http://users.belgacom.net/jm.armes/PGM-50/FBouche.jpg

[Guttorm]

Thanks Aegirsson. Some GREAT pics on that site!

[fantassin]

The first pic of Aegirsson is actually not from the FFL; it's the 3rd Co of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes, which has been nicknamed "Fox Team" (in English) for a long time.

The reason why they are bare chested under their vests is that they posed for the camera for a minute while busy digging foxholes in the first days of the French operation "Licorne" in Ivory Coast last September. Because they were the spearhead company on stand-by for immediate deployment, they pack very light so they had to take the best possible care of the little equipment (eg jacket) they carry on such rapid deployment because they knew they would not get back to their duffle bags in a hurry.

The 1er RCP and other units there had a series of contacts, including the use of PGM 0.50 cal rifles at night at distances over 1200 metres.

The pics with the M16A2 were taken about two years ago during a NATO exercice, in Sardinia if I remember well when Légionnaires from the 2°REI cross trained with Marines from a MEU that took part in this exercice.

The pics with the MP5SD and the Beretta 92F are members of the GCP, not of the 1ere Compagnie; since they sometimes cross-train with the GIGN, they use the same overalls as them.