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The end of 13e DBLE in Djibouti....

Padre

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Re-bonjour,

pour ce qui est des E.A.U., et pour répondre à Stoeng, rien n'est moins certain.
Revirement de situation...
Il se pourrait que la 13 soit tout simplement dissoute. Grave !

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Bien sure je peux me tromper, mais je pense vraiment qu’un régiment tellement prestigieux ne serra pas tout simplement dissoute.

L’appui « politique » des anciens dans les hautes sphères est toujours forte et ça serra plus tout une question d’où ira le 13.
 

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Ce sont des rumeurs, seulement des rumeurs...
Mais tu sais, les Troupes de Marines sont bien placées à Paris auprès des hautes sphères, bien mieux que la Légion...
L'avenir le dira.
Mais nous perdons un Régiment (les dernier) stationné dans un pays étranger.
Ils seront tous en métropole (et Guyane)
 

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WOW !!!!!! Lost for words....
 

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Ok I'm going to buy Arta Plage and open a desert survival centre or a hotel LOL.....

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desole gents, but my google translator doesnt work on that link, does it say those rumours that 13dble is closing and moving to the desert are true?

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Ok I'm going to buy Arta Plage and open a desert survival centre or a hotel LOL.....

Cpl K....

Not a hotel, K, they'll all be looking for deals. Open a health spa, where weight loss is guaranteed. Some will pay any money for that.
 

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It is more than the end of an era for the Legion, it is the end of tradition; the Legion is synonymous with Africa. The Chef du Corps really nailed it in his Ordre du Jour.....he said it all actually. I wonder how he stood when he read it aloud to his Legionnaires......and how they re-acted to the ordre.
 

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It is more than the end of an era for the Legion, it is the end of tradition; the Legion is synonymous with Africa. The Chef du Corps really nailed it in his Ordre du Jour.....he said it all actually. I wonder how he stood when he read it aloud to his Legionnaires......and how they re-acted to the ordre.

I can hardly believe this Samtoo. The world has gone mad. To start with, how are all those pretty young girls going to support their families with our boys gone?

More seriously - I agree - the Ch du Corps must have had lump in his throat as big as the Eiffel Tower having to read that out.

It will only be question of time before it all kicks off again over there with the Legion gone....
 

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Si j'ai comprendé le francais vraiment (doubtful), it seems they intend to place French Air Force in Djibouti to fill the gap left by la légion? And that the whole deal could still fall through if France is unable to negotiate the new defence agreement that will now obviously have to include air rights and fly zones...

As sad as the last page of la légion dans l'Afrique history is (at least for the first tome..), I am sure for the newest generation of les enfants the 13dble will now become an even more sought after regiment.

C'est fou! Mais, c'est la vie.
 

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Dans la "guerre des boutons" qui s'est jouée à Djibouti les TDM ont donc manifestement "gagné"... A mon avis, une façon de compenser les fermetures annoncées du 43° BIMa à Port-Bouët (près d'Abidjan, en Côte d'Ivoire) et du 23° BIMa à Dakar (Sénégal). Il faut bien conserver quelques postes outre-mer "intéressants" pour ces chers "coloniaux"... Cela étant, dans l'ordre du jour du chef de corps, rien ne dit pour l'instant que la 13°DBLE sera dissoute. Elle sera peut-être simplement transférée ailleurs.
 

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A little video of the Légion when they arrived in Djibouti in 1962 / 1963...

Feck Djibouti was clean back then ;)

[video]http://lalegion.tv/video/559/Djibouti1962[/video]

Cpl K.....
 
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