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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

An American Foreign Legion would create many solutions, ... As a former paratrooper in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and a former ... But the French Foreign Legion is a part of the French ...

The French paratroopers ambushed by the Taliban last years were from the 11th Parachute Brigade, a non-Legion unit. As France continues to contribute troops to the efforts in Afghanistan, which seem ...