Im just trying to compare the SAS and French Foreign Legions history.
2007-03-14 14:25:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
i don't know but I do know someone who ran off to the foreign legion a week before he was due to get married!
2007-03-14 14:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The French Foreign Legion was involved in the campaigns in Gallipoli (1915 -1916), Indochina (Vietnam 1945 -1954), and Algeria (1954 -1962).
2007-03-14 14:38:34 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here is the campaign history:
http://www.info-france-usa.org/atoz/legion/history.asp
Here is their current deployments to include the French version of homeland security ops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion#Current_Deployments
Plus they have served as interim peace keepers in Chad
2007-03-15 00:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by andrew.runde@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have been and still are involved in operations in the Ivory Coast, Kosovo and Afganistan.
2007-03-14 14:33:29 · answer #4 · answered by Rich C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they've done anything major since the turn of the century.
2007-03-16 06:45:45 · answer #5 · answered by mcc123 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋