Paratroopers, assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, conducted bilateral training with the French 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, French Foreign Legion, during Exercise Kepi Blanc, in Corsica.

The legion now shares its foreign postings with French regular units composed of equally capable professionals. No one doubts that the paratroopers of the 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes ...

April 18, 2009: Despite its mercenary reputation and a persistent myth that it enlists criminals and psychopaths, the French Foreign Legion continues to serve as France s primary force for external ...

It feels like an anachronism, but the French Foreign Legion—the legendary last-stop military brigade for disgraced officers, French criminals, desperate foreigners, and foolish adventurers ...

The French Foreign Legion was created on March 9, 1831, by a royal ordinance issued by Louis Philippe I, King of the French from 1830 to 1848.

A PARATROOPER and champion boxer has completed a challenging training exercise with the French Foreign Legion. Private Jeff Saunders, from Sedgefield, County Durham, swapped his boxing gloves for ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president at the time, reviews paratroopers from the 8th marine parachute regiment in Castres in August 2008. ... Is French Foreign Legion still an elite, ...

When people think of foreign legions, they think of French mercenaries. But the French Foreign Legion is a part of the French military, is led by French officers, takes its orders exclusively from ...

A former member of the French Foreign Legion has remarked, “predominantly it is composed of men of violence, bums, morons of vile habits and booty-hunting louts.” But La Légion Etrangère has ...