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 ...

As a former paratrooper in the Army’s 82nd Airborne ... they think of French mercenaries. But the French Foreign Legion is a part of the French military, is led by French officers, takes its ...

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 Foreign legion is unique in that ... having been deployed alongside the Legion in both the Algerian and Indochina Wars. The French paratroopers ambushed by the Taliban last years were from the ...

Officials said ten Foreign Legion paratroopers died in an ambush at ... close to the Pakistan border. French troops fought through the night, on Monday, killing 27 Taleban militants, after they ...

Created specifically for French Special Forces and French Foreign Legion paratroopers fighting the second IndoChina War during the 1950s, the Vespa TAP ("Troupes Aéro Portées") carried a massive ...

France's colonial adventures in north Africa in the 20th Century will forever be associated with the kepi blanc-wearing French Foreign ... caught up with the Legion's elite paratrooper regiment ...

Whether you’re looking for a career change or need a new identity after faking your own death, joining the French Foreign Legion might be the path for you. Founded in 1831 partly as a way to ...

(AP Photo/Michel Euler) The "Légion étrangère," or French Foreign Legion, is perhaps the world's most famous – and infamous – foreign legion. When it was created in 1831, its primary role ...