2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment

2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment
2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment
2e Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes
	Regimental Badge
Active	2nd Foreign Parachute Battalion; 1948–1955; 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment; 1 December 1955 – present
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Paratrooper ; Airborne Light Infantry
Role	Primary tasks: Airborne warfare ; Special Reconnaissance; Specialised roles: Urban Warfare (1st CIE); Mountain warfare (2nd CIE); Amphibious warfare (3rd CIE); Sniping and demolitions (4th CIE); Desert warfare (5th CIE); Special forces (3 GCP);
Size	~ 1,310
Part of	11th Parachute Brigade; Commando Parachute Group;
Garrison/HQ	Calvi, Corsica, France
Motto(s)	More Majorum; à la manière de nos Anciens (fr) (in the manner, ways and traditions of our veterans foreign regiments);
Colour of Beret	Green
March	La Légion Marche (The Legion Marches)
Anniversaries	Camerone Day (30 April),; Saint-Michael Day (29 September)
Engagements	First Indochina War Battle of Route Coloniale 4; Battle of Hòa Bình; Battle of Nà Sản; Battle of Dien Bien Phu; Algerian War; Shaba II 1978 Battle of Kolwezi 1978; Lebanese Civil War 1975–1990 Operation Épaulard I 1982; Multinational Force in Lebanon 1982–1984; Kuwait 1990–1991; Kosovo; Ivory Coast; War on terror (2001–present) Afghan conflict; Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan; ; Northern Mali conflict;
Commanders
Current; commander	Colonel De La Chappelle
Notable; commanders	Rémy Raffalli; Jacques Lefort; Pierre Darmuzai; Paul Arnaud de FaradDa; Jeannou Lacaze; Bernard Goupil; Jean Brette; Philippe Erulin; Jean Louis Roué; Bernard Janvier; Bruno Dary; Benoît Puga; Alain Bouquin; Éric Bellot des Minières; Paulo Dameto

The 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (French: 2e Régiment étranger de parachutistes, 2e REP) is the only airborne regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. It is one of the four infantry regiments of the 11th Parachute Brigade and part of the spearhead of the French rapid reaction force.

Since the regiment's arrival from Algeria in 1967, it has been stationed at Camp Raffalli near the town of Calvi on the island of Corsica, south of mainland France. The regiment is also equipped with Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé.

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