j'ai un ami qui était un ancien de cette grande famille qu'est la Légion ... il est parti emporté par un cancer. il me parlé souvent de cette partie de sa vie qui fut la sienne mais perso pour moi ça fait des années que je voue une grande admiration pour ce corps militaire
One of my ancestor's name is inscribed on the Arc. He was one of the Wild Geese from Ireland who came to the aid of France during the revolution. A very good diplomat, I've read, but sadly he lost his head over his zeal for the French.
@tiddlywink100 The Pionniers (pioneers) are the combat engineers and a traditional unit of the Legion. The sapeurs traditionally sport large beards, wear leather aprons and gloves and hold axes. The sappers were very common in the French army and in other European armies during the Napoleonic era but progressively disappeared in the 19th century, except in the Legion.
Look at the ex legion men on the grandstand,look at proud men ,brave men.i have a lot of respect for these fighters.not a bad pace 88pm good band as well,just wish the voice over was quieter
l'ironie de cette vidéo est que le"président" français avait un papa venu de Hongrie, qui devait justement s'engager dans la légion en 47 ou 48 avec en retour l'acquisition de la citoyenneté française, évidemment le mec s'est défilé car sachant qu'il allait être envoyé en Indo, peut-être le fiston sera t il condamné par contumace dans 50 ans pour toute son oeuvre, Lybie etc...
C clair que entr une pioch et une hache ya une sacré différence. Franchement, bravo a la légion ces hommes sont des légendes et sont craints par nos ennemies du monde entier. Vive la légion et Vive la France !
The cadence they are keeping is one that would let a person march/walk for quite a distance without tiring that person out. I would guess that any other military members in this parade just might be "wiped out" at the end of it due to their faster cadence.
Last I checked US marines and French foreign legionnaires are fighting side by side in Afghanistan, are they not? Why make everything a competition of who's better.
@tiddlywink100 The current pioneer unit of the Legion reintroduced the symbols of the Napoleonic sappers: the beard, the axe, the leather apron, the crossed-axes insignia and the leather gloves. If the parades of the Legion are opened by this unit, it is to commemorate the traditional role of the sappers "opening the way" for the troops.
Sir(s): If I may, at this Date, Wednesday, 12 May 2010, and at this daily Time, 15:35 Hours/3:35 PM, CST, USA state that I am truly and thoroughly pleased that the United States of America, the U. S. A., still attends this Event. Thank you. Have a Nice Day. Godspeed.
@tiddlywink100 Marching pace of the Legion. In comparison to the 120-step-per-minute pace of other French units, the Legion has an 88-step-per-minute marching speed. ." This can be seen at ceremonial parades and public displays attended by the Legion, particularly while parading in Paris on 14 July. Because of the impressively slow pace, the Legion is always the last unit marching in any parade.
@LLPorduction I know US Marines and I know former members of the French Legion. All I can is that the former members of the French Legion are very intense and literally are lookign for blood. And this one's had no war experience. They had a very hard time readjusting to society. Very hard time and a Boot Camp of 6 months compare to one of 3 months is a huge difference. It can cause a lot of changes in your psyche. My respecto to the French Legion!
@tiddlywink100 Also, because the Legion must always stay together, it does not break formation into two when approaching the presidential grandstand, as other French military units do, in order to preserve the unity of the Legion.
Superbe prestation comme d'habitude dirait-on, mais si les commentateurs pouvaient la fermer pour nous laisser que le spectacle........surtout pour du bla bla inutile
lol, well I'm American, so I have mixed feelings about France. I see guys like this and the GIGN and I think AWESOME, BAD ASS, etc...but it's not always that way.
L'animatrice se trompe sur plusieurs points concernant la légion. ( la barbe, la hache et non le piolet, leur rôle dans la légion ) Dommage qu'elle ne prépare pas son dossier avant !...
Pioneers in 1RE have mainly ceremonial purpose and keeping of old traditions, but there is 1REG and 2REG, military engineers regiments, modern pioneers... At the end you can see that legion doesn´t split in front of podium unlike other units.
Neither the Legion nor the Royal Marines can not compare to the USMC. The Royal Marines and the Legion are nothing but light infantry and rely on other for firepower and support. The USMC is the size of the German military (250,000). It is a true combined arms force. Ground combat element. Air combat element. Combat services support. (The air combat element alond is about the same size as the Israeli Air Force.) In selection, training and equipment, USMC outshines both.
but you cannot wear a turban, and if you go there they'll cut you hear and anything that seems a beard (excpet if you'll go to the "pioniers"). So, you can be Sikh, but not khalsa in the legion.
Legion of strangers ... What a joke The last time the French Foreign Legion fought this was in 1940, when in two weeks France surrendered to Germany To this day the Foreign Legion has not fought against a serious army! Because if he had fought, he would have been smashed to pieces like in 1940!
During the First Indochina War (1946-1954), the Foreign Legion saw its numbers swell. The FFL lost a large number of men in the catastrophic Battle of Dien Bien Phu. During the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), the Foreign Legion came close to being disbanded after some officers, men, and the highly decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er REP) took part in the Generals' putsch. Operations during this period included the Suez Crisis, the Battle of Algiers and various offensives launched by General Maurice Challe including Operations Oranie and Jumelles. In the 1960s and 1970s, Legion regiments had additional roles in sending units as a rapid deployment force to preserve French interests - in its former African colonies and in other nations as well; it also returned to its roots of being a unit always ready to be sent to conflict zones around the world. Some notable operations include: the Chadian-Libyan conflict in 1969-1972 (the first time that the Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War), 1978-1979, and 1983-1987; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978. In 1981, the 1st Foreign Regiment and Foreign Legion regiments partook to the Multinational Force in Lebanon. In 1990, Foreign Legion regiments were sent to the Persian Gulf and took part in Opération Daguet, part of Division Daguet. Following the Gulf War in the 1990s, the Foreign Legion helped with the evacuation of French citizens and foreigners in Rwanda, Gabon and Zaire. The Foreign Legion was also deployed in Cambodia, Somalia, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the mid- to late-1990s, the Foreign Legion was deployed in the Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville and in Kosovo. The Foreign Legion also took part in operations in Rwanda in 1990-1994; and the Ivory Coast in 2002 to the present. In the 2000s, the Foreign Legion was deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, Operation Licorne in Ivory Coast, the EUFOR Tchad/RCA in Chad, and Operation Serval in the Northern Mali conflict.[11] Other countries have tried to emulate the French Foreign Legion model. The contemporary French Foreign Legion relates the most to that of Spain, the Spanish Legion.
@@raymonray5444 Hello First of all, I thank you for the important information you have offered me. It is very helpful to get information especially from someone who knows and knows what he is talking about. However, I apologize to you if I hurt you or the memory of your friends I really deeply regret and I did not intend at all to underestimate the soldier himself and certainly not the soldier who lost his life. I agree with you that the problem in Leglion is the mismanagement of the French, who disparage human life, and in general the management of the French, is entirely responsible for the failures of the Legion. I am very angry about this, especially when I know that they treat the Legion as "mercenaries" and not as sons of the nation, as in other national armies. So they can underestimate people who are willing to die for others for money. I know that this is not the intention of the Legionnaire himself and knows that money is not his real motivation to join the Legion. Therefore, my contempt is not for the soldier himself, for whom a soldier is a soldier is a soldier and that means everything to me even if this soldier is for me an enemy soldier. I therefore agree with you and apologize to you as a self-corrector and this is my intention I am more contemptuous in France and not in Legion! Hope you forgive me all the best and thank you very much
@@davisdavis1199, all is forgiven ! but one point also , the legion dropped after 1940 into France itself , following escape int England . www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-a-tale-of-the-french-foreign-legion.htm On June 18 General Charles de Gaulle, now himself a refugee in England, announced: France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war! Magrin-Verneret immediately offered the services of the 13th Demi-Brigade to the new Free French movement, and soon they were in training at Trentham Park Camp near Stoke-on-Trent.
Madame la journaliste, sauf le respect que je vous dois, les pionniers de la légion étrangère ne portent pas une pioche comme vous dites mais une hache... Avant d'ouvrir son bec il serait bon de vérifier vos infos. Salutations...
Pas la peine de parler " outils " avec une conne qui fait pas la différence entre un rayon laser et une corde à linge ordinaire ! Elle n’a jamais dû en avoir en main , des outils ... Enfin , pas ceux dont on parle ici .
@willkc8088 Have another look at them, by their very name they aint frogs La Légion Étrangère, the legion of strangers made up of foreign nationals who can take French nationality on completion of service, this information brought to you courtesy of The Royal Engineers. UBIQUE. God Bless all service men and women everywhere and keep their families safe.
j'ai un ami qui était un ancien de cette grande famille qu'est la Légion ... il est parti emporté par un cancer. il me parlé souvent de cette partie de sa vie qui fut la sienne mais perso pour moi ça fait des années que je voue une grande admiration pour ce corps militaire
This pace is the right pace to walk through the desserts of the Sahara, ;)
One of my ancestor's name is inscribed on the Arc. He was one of the Wild Geese from Ireland who came to the aid of France during the revolution. A very good diplomat, I've read, but sadly he lost his head over his zeal for the French.
bravo la légion Etrangére
quite a formidable looking regiment!
I **love** the Legion's march music, "Le Boudin"!
La toile de tente roulée sur le sac à dos = un boudin
@tiddlywink100
The Pionniers (pioneers) are the combat engineers and a traditional unit of the Legion. The sapeurs traditionally sport large beards, wear leather aprons and gloves and hold axes. The sappers were very common in the French army and in other European armies during the Napoleonic era but progressively disappeared in the 19th century, except in the Legion.
Quite right, it heartens me to hear, or rather read, comments from such fair minded people as your good self Sir, my respects
Look at the ex legion men on the grandstand,look at proud men ,brave men.i have a lot of respect for these fighters.not a bad pace 88pm good band as well,just wish the voice over was quieter
I think that it is difficult to march to this tempo. Great control as there is a tendency to speed up.
Vive l'Armée, vive la Légion !
Vive la France !
Marine 2012 !
l'ironie de cette vidéo est que le"président" français avait un papa venu de Hongrie, qui devait justement s'engager dans la légion en 47 ou 48 avec en retour l'acquisition de la citoyenneté française, évidemment le mec s'est défilé car sachant qu'il allait être envoyé en Indo, peut-être le fiston sera t il condamné par contumace dans 50 ans pour toute son oeuvre, Lybie etc...
C clair que entr une pioch et une hache ya une sacré différence.
Franchement, bravo a la légion ces hommes sont des légendes et sont craints par nos ennemies du monde entier.
Vive la légion et Vive la France !
Vive la France
Bravo les camerades
thanks bro!
Vive la legion ! Vive la France !
Ceux qui veulent supprimer le defile du 14 juillet sont indignes d'etre Francais !
The cadence they are keeping is one that would let a person march/walk for quite a distance without tiring that person out. I would guess that any other military members in this parade just might be "wiped out" at the end of it due to their faster cadence.
Last I checked US marines and French foreign legionnaires are fighting side by side in Afghanistan, are they not? Why make everything a competition of who's better.
Those are the French Foreign Legion Sappers, they wear gloves, and leather aprons, holds an Axe, and that beard.
@tiddlywink100
The current pioneer unit of the Legion reintroduced the symbols of the Napoleonic sappers: the beard, the axe, the leather apron, the crossed-axes insignia and the leather gloves. If the parades of the Legion are opened by this unit, it is to commemorate the traditional role of the sappers "opening the way" for the troops.
This most excellent!
Et c'est quand qu'il la ferme... ca gâche tout de les entendre piailler! !!!!
The dreaded "announcers who didn't know when to shut up.
Sir(s): If I may, at this Date, Wednesday, 12 May 2010, and at this daily Time, 15:35 Hours/3:35 PM, CST, USA state that I am truly and thoroughly pleased that the United States of America, the U. S. A., still attends this Event. Thank you. Have a Nice Day. Godspeed.
In sports it is a mistake to underestimate your opponent. the same rule applies in warfare.
happygael: ALWAYS honor the threat!
@tiddlywink100
Marching pace of the Legion. In comparison to the 120-step-per-minute pace of other French units, the Legion has an 88-step-per-minute marching speed. ." This can be seen at ceremonial parades and public displays attended by the Legion, particularly while parading in Paris on 14 July. Because of the impressively slow pace, the Legion is always the last unit marching in any parade.
come one guys !! its so good
Iedhunter44,that was in the old days,now they are loved by all nations
@LLPorduction I know US Marines and I know former members of the French Legion. All I can is that the former members of the French Legion are very intense and literally are lookign for blood. And this one's had no war experience. They had a very hard time readjusting to society. Very hard time and a Boot Camp of 6 months compare to one of 3 months is a huge difference. It can cause a lot of changes in your psyche. My respecto to the French Legion!
sidi bel abbès vive la légion
@tiddlywink100
Also, because the Legion must always stay together, it does not break formation into two when approaching the presidential grandstand, as other French military units do, in order to preserve the unity of the Legion.
J ai fait mes 16 mois d armée
Et j en suis fiere
Wish the commentators would shut up.
It is fucking disrespectful.
Agree.....just like the commentators that do the Columbus Day & St. Patrick's Day in NYC.... Annoying!!
Announcers: STFU!!
Superbe prestation comme d'habitude dirait-on, mais si les commentateurs pouvaient la fermer pour nous laisser que le spectacle........surtout pour du bla bla inutile
@MrBK4u its a part of the France army, its the Legion. the best army, LPN
lol, well I'm American, so I have mixed feelings about France. I see guys like this and the GIGN and I think AWESOME, BAD ASS, etc...but it's not always that way.
OOOuuuhh confondre un piccolo et un fifre, absolument impardonnable comme erreur....
Yes of course they are not heart children. But the majority of french people enjoy the Legion. As the british people like their ghurkas units.
ils sont tres beaux isabel
Waiii on sort les chars ciré a l'huile d'olive etc .. puis sur le terrain ces RESTRICTION ! Economise les balles sa coute chere a l 'etat xD
viv la france
:( ok, no problem, thanks for the information mate!
I am sorry because I do not speak French, so, I have one question which is the name of the march that they play before the legion one?
@torstvillinger "merci par excellence de la monde assui au la fete de grande mere!"
Fuck all the arguements, these guys are professional soldiers and bloody good ones, no matter where they come from !!!!
the leather aprons and axes are because those are the pioneers (engineers?)
Any one know who manufactures the AXE these men carry?
@MaxRWF
I know some kick-ass jarheads, but yeah I agree.
Je rêve où elle a dit qu'ils avaient une pioche ???
Don't wrap them up I'll take them just as they are!!! I love a good beard...
i wouldnt clap if they marched through my town...
regarde bien aux 3m 5 s.
Les vieus soldats a pied.
seaulemant aprés le generals fait le même.
@MaxRWF Royal Marines step on the Legion.
Quite right, standards have to be maintained old boy.
NO...Legionnaires would not stop to waste time with a marine, they can go without. Legio Patria Nostra
marching axe on the shoulder….
"mon honneur s'appelle fidélité "
NON, "Honneur et Fidélité", votre commentaire fleure la SS... nostalgie sans doute.
Sappers are great!
L'animatrice se trompe sur plusieurs points concernant la légion.
( la barbe, la hache et non le piolet, leur rôle dans la légion )
Dommage qu'elle ne prépare pas son dossier avant !...
how are the pioneers different? More training ? More time in the Legion ?
Pioneers in 1RE have mainly ceremonial purpose and keeping of old traditions, but there is 1REG and 2REG, military engineers regiments, modern pioneers...
At the end you can see that legion doesn´t split in front of podium unlike other units.
Neither the Legion nor the Royal Marines can not compare to the USMC.
The Royal Marines and the Legion are nothing but light infantry and rely on other for firepower and support.
The USMC is the size of the German military (250,000).
It is a true combined arms force. Ground combat element. Air combat element. Combat services support. (The air combat element alond is about the same size as the Israeli Air Force.)
In selection, training and equipment, USMC outshines both.
We fuck USMC .
Are the pioneers allowed to have beards always or only for ceremonies?
LOL! Sure they regrow over night just in time for the parade....
Look at those beards. Badass.
@rnw94030 Money and numbers. No quality though
3:05 Lazare Ponticelli
dude its france they are bad ass
in africa, fighting
j’avoue j'ai bien ris x-)
형제야
Adjudant chef en tête ç est pas un italien si oui je le connais ,Il est en retraite (en Italie )
On rigole pas de a la légion
Tosti sti Legionari
but you cannot wear a turban, and if you go there they'll cut you hear and anything that seems a beard (excpet if you'll go to the "pioniers"). So, you can be Sikh, but not khalsa in the legion.
mais ils ne peuvent pas la fermer ces foutus commentateurs ? parler pour meubler, ça ils sont forts...
cos there jelous
우리 형제여원사라SkChi
marie drucker ferme la
@24michiganironbrigad Nope, Legionnaires eat US Marines for breakfast and poop Royal Marines in the evening. That's how the food chain works.
@itloads
Legionnaires eat US Marines for breakfast.
Legion of strangers ... What a joke
The last time the French Foreign Legion fought this was in 1940, when in two weeks France surrendered to Germany
To this day the Foreign Legion has not fought against a serious army! Because if he had fought, he would have been smashed to pieces like in 1940!
During the First Indochina War (1946-1954), the Foreign Legion saw its numbers swell. The FFL lost a large number of men in the catastrophic Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
During the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), the Foreign Legion came close to being disbanded after some officers, men, and the highly decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er REP) took part in the Generals' putsch. Operations during this period included the Suez Crisis, the Battle of Algiers and various offensives launched by General Maurice Challe including Operations Oranie and Jumelles. In the 1960s and 1970s, Legion regiments had additional roles in sending units as a rapid deployment force to preserve French interests - in its former African colonies and in other nations as well; it also returned to its roots of being a unit always ready to be sent to conflict zones around the world. Some notable operations include: the Chadian-Libyan conflict in 1969-1972 (the first time that the Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War), 1978-1979, and 1983-1987; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978. In 1981, the 1st Foreign Regiment and Foreign Legion regiments partook to the Multinational Force in Lebanon. In 1990, Foreign Legion regiments were sent to the Persian Gulf and took part in Opération Daguet, part of Division Daguet. Following the Gulf War in the 1990s, the Foreign Legion helped with the evacuation of French citizens and foreigners in Rwanda, Gabon and Zaire. The Foreign Legion was also deployed in Cambodia, Somalia, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the mid- to late-1990s, the Foreign Legion was deployed in the Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville and in Kosovo. The Foreign Legion also took part in operations in Rwanda in 1990-1994; and the Ivory Coast in 2002 to the present. In the 2000s, the Foreign Legion was deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, Operation Licorne in Ivory Coast, the EUFOR Tchad/RCA in Chad, and Operation Serval in the Northern Mali conflict.[11] Other countries have tried to emulate the French Foreign Legion model. The contemporary French Foreign Legion relates the most to that of Spain, the Spanish Legion.
@@raymonray5444 Hello
First of all, I thank you for the important information you have offered me. It is very helpful to get information especially from someone who knows and knows what he is talking about.
However, I apologize to you if I hurt you or the memory of your friends I really deeply regret and I did not intend at all to underestimate the soldier himself and certainly not the soldier who lost his life.
I agree with you that the problem in Leglion is the mismanagement of the French, who disparage human life, and in general the management of the French, is entirely responsible for the failures of the Legion. I am very angry about this, especially when I know that they treat the Legion as "mercenaries" and not as sons of the nation, as in other national armies.
So they can underestimate people who are willing to die for others for money. I know that this is not the intention of the Legionnaire himself and knows that money is not his real motivation to join the Legion.
Therefore, my contempt is not for the soldier himself, for whom a soldier is a soldier is a soldier and that means everything to me even if this soldier is for me an enemy soldier. I therefore agree with you and apologize to you as a self-corrector and this is my intention I am more contemptuous in France and not in Legion!
Hope you forgive me all the best and thank you very much
@@davisdavis1199, all is forgiven !
but one point also , the legion dropped after 1940 into France itself , following escape int England .
www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-a-tale-of-the-french-foreign-legion.htm
On June 18 General Charles de Gaulle, now himself a refugee in England, announced: France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war! Magrin-Verneret immediately offered the services of the 13th Demi-Brigade to the new Free French movement, and soon they were in training at Trentham Park Camp near Stoke-on-Trent.
Viet Minh ate legionnaires for snack
They cant march worth a shit but the Axe thing and the beards is scary as heck!
no
encore eux =D , toujours un mec avec un gros ventre en premier mdrr^^
I guess muslim Francais like to join the woodcutters regiment there, lol. Big furry beard seems to be a must.
;) WHY ARE THE LEGIONAIRES WEARING APRONS ? ;)
Traditionnal
The Sappers wear the aprons by tradition. as well as grow beards
they are the engineers
bull shit lad your not allowed in if you have criminal record
gente senza patria che combatte per danaro.
@MaxRWF AHAHAH !!! :') The USMC is a big shit.. Vive la Légion étrangère !!!
combattenti al soldo degli industriali
viva la figa
Марш мясников чтоли?? Идут, как в штаны насрали!
C'est pas pour rien si ceux sont les plus applaudies sur les Champs (avec les Sapeur Pompiers de Paris)!!!!
Tosti sti Legionari
Das sind richtige Pioniere, groß stark, Vollbart , Bauch , essen wie Pferd trinken wie Pferd. Es lebe die Pionier Truppe. Gruß Respekt Ed
@MaxRWF 3:42 And just an angry look from a Sapeur can make a Marine's hair fall out.
Là, je suis fier de ma nation ; France, je t'aime !
L'ancien que je suis attend avec une impatience non dissimulée qu'un journaliste explique : pourquoi "Le Boudin" ?
Madame la journaliste, sauf le respect que je vous dois, les pionniers de la légion étrangère ne portent pas une pioche comme vous dites mais une hache... Avant d'ouvrir son bec il serait bon de vérifier vos infos. Salutations...
Pas la peine de parler " outils " avec une conne qui fait pas la différence entre un rayon laser et une corde à linge ordinaire ! Elle n’a jamais dû en avoir en main , des outils ...
Enfin , pas ceux dont on parle ici .
@willkc8088 Have another look at them, by their very name they aint frogs La Légion Étrangère, the legion of strangers made up of foreign nationals who can take French nationality on completion of service, this information brought to you courtesy of The Royal Engineers. UBIQUE. God Bless all service men and women everywhere and keep their families safe.