"13e DBLE: Commemoration of the 80th anniversary" Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Oct 2020 10:07 p.m. PST |
… at Camp Larzac. "In late September 2020, reunited again after having returned from different deployments, the officers and legionnaires of the 13th Foreign Legion Half Brigade (13e DBLE) commemorated together the 80th anniversary of their unit constituted in 1940 in North Africa. See photos. The ceremony took place at Camp Larzac on 26 September 2020, the base of the regiment which is located in southern France. It was presided by the current French Army commander-in-chief, General Thierry Burkhard, who was serving in the Foreign Legion between 1989-2002 and who only returned to command the 13e DBLE in Djibouti in 2008-10. He was accompanied by General Alain Lardet, the new commander of the Legion, by Colonel Pierre-Henri Aubry, the freshly appointed commander of the regiment, as well as by General Jean-Christophe Bechon from the 6th Light Armored Brigade (6e BLB, which 13e DBLE makes part of; he started his military career with the Legion and is also a former member of the 13e DBLE) and by the Foreign Legion's former commander-in-chief, General Jean Maurin (2014-18, ex-commanding officer of the 13e DBLE in 2000-2002)…"
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