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Independent Units

 

8e Régiment de Transmissions (8e RT) (Ministry of Defense/General Staff, Paris)

41e Régiment de Transmissions (41e RT) (SATCOM)

43e Bataillon de Transmissions (43e BT) (IT)

785e Composante Guerre Electronique (785e CGE) (EW)

 

5e bataillon du matériel (5e BMAT)

1er Groupe Logistique du Commissariat (1er GLCAT)

2e Groupe Logistique du Commissariat (2e GLCAT)

3e Groupe Logistique du Commissariat (3e GLCAT)

4e Groupe Logistique du Commissariat (4e GLCAT)

5e Groupe Logistique du Commissariat (5e GLCAT)

 

11e Base de Soutien du Matériel (11e BSMAT)

12e Base de Soutien du Matériel (12e BSMAT)

 

13e Base de Soutien du Matériel (13e BSMAT)

15e Base de Soutien du Matériel (15e BSMAT)

17e Base de Soutien du Matériel (17e BSMAT)

 

1er Régiment Médical (1er RMED) Field Hospital Regiment

25e Régiment du Génie de l'Air (25e RGA) Air Engineer Regiment

519e Régiment du Train (519e RT) Transport Regiment (Amphibious)

28e Groupe Géographique (28e GG) (Map)

 
Overseas Deployed Units

 

On the French Army website, readers will see four regiments, 1er - 4e RSMA. These are not military units, but akin to military reform/trade school units, intended to give troubled youth who did not finish high school a second chance. Each RMSA has several companies, each of which teaches a particular trade.

 

 

Cote d’Ivore

43e BIMa

Djibouti

5e RIAOM 

French Guyana

(1300)

 

3e REI (European Space Center)

9 e RIMa (Cayane)

French Polynesia

RIMa P/P  (Papette)  (700)

Gabon

6e BIMa

Guadeloupe

41e BIMa (Pointe e Pitre)

Martinique      

33 e RIMa (Fort de France)

Mayotte

DLEM  (240)

New Caledonia

 (1000)

Reunion

3e RPIMa  (St. Pierre)

Senegal

23e BIMa (Dakar)

           

A Large part of the overseas units (75%) are rotating companies or squadrons from metropolitan French assigned for 4 months.

 

BIMa = Battalion Infantry Marine

DLEM = Foreign Legion Detachment at Mayotte

RIAOM = Regiment Inter Armes Outer Mer (Overseas Combined Regiment)

RIMa P/NC = Marine Infantry Regiment Pacific/New Caledonia

RIMa P/P = Marine Infantry Regiment Pacific/Polynesia

RPIMa = Marine Parachute Infantry

 

Nato and UN deployments

 

Bosnia (420)

Kosovo (2 100)

Lebanon (200)

Central Africa (200)

Afghanistan (600 + 200 SF)

Ivory Coast reinforcements (3100)

 

Marines 14,700

 

11 regiments in France (included in units listed above)

10 regiments overseas

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