Opération “Barkhane”

[dusaboss]

Is there some Increased activity down in Mali? Unfortunately 2 legionnaires in short time was KIA.

 

[Pink Floyd]

My God! Although that is extremely tragic, if his number was up, what a way to go ! In a firefight. I can only imagine how proud his colleagues and the regiment are of him.

RIP

 

[Rapace]

Yes... Two légionnaires cavaliers KIA in the same region of Mali in a matter of a few days. RIP.
As the regimental song says:
“Ils ont servi honnêtes et fidèles, au premier étranger de cavalerie.”

 

[Joseph Cosgrove]

Yes... Two légionnaires cavaliers KIA in the same region of Mali in a matter of a few days. RIP.
As the regimental song says:
“Ils ont servi honnêtes et fidèles, au premier étranger de cavalerie.”

And more precisely in the 3rd couplet (verse) :

Un légionnaire tombe, frappé d'une balle,
Adieu mes parents, mes amis,
Toutes mes fautes, je les ai expiées,
Au Premier étranger de cavalerie.

A legionnaire falls, struck by a bullet,
Goodbye my parents, my friends,
All my faults, I have atoned (*) for them,
At the First foreign cavalry.

(*) I have wiped my slate clean.

 

[Rapace]

It's actually more the next verse :

Sur sa tombe, une simple croix s'élève
Sur laquelle ces seuls mots sont inscrits
Il a servi honnête et fidèle
Au Premier étranger de cavalerie

On his grave, a simple cross rises
On which these singles words are inscribed
He served honourable and faithful
With the First foreign cavalry.

In my post above, I replaced the singular (il a servi honnête et fidèle) by plural (Ils ont servi, honnêtes et fidèles) for those two Recmen KIA in Mali. One was Ukrainian and the second French (possibly in the Legion with an alleged Canadian or Swiss nationality).

 

[Pink Floyd]

R.I.P

 

[Pink Floyd]

Some recent photos from the Sahel region...

 

[USMCRET]

Very sorry for the loss of your comrades.

 

[mark wake]

And more precisely in the 3rd couplet (verse) :

Un légionnaire tombe, frappé d'une balle,
Adieu mes parents, mes amis,
Toutes mes fautes, je les ai expiées,
Au Premier étranger de cavalerie.

A legionnaire falls, struck by a bullet,
Goodbye my parents, my friends,
All my faults, I have atoned (*) for them,
At the First foreign cavalry.

(*) I have wiped my slate clean.

My respects to the cavalry.

 

[Pink Floyd]

Sahel region

 

[voltigeur]

Sahel region

Legionnaires carry nowadays a lot more equipment then we had in my time.

 

[dusaboss]

Sahel region

Cool pictures. Taken by pro, we can see that.

 

[Rapace]

The MoD has announced that Algerian jihadist Abdelmalek Droukdal, leader of AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), has been killed in northern Mali in an operation by Barkhane elements on 3 June.

 

[Le petit caporal]

And some of his entourage

 

[Joseph Cosgrove]

Al-Qaeda chief in north Africa Abdelmalek Droukdel killed - France

Veteran jihadist Abdelmalek Droukdel was killed in an operation in Mali, the defence minister says.

www.bbc.com

 

[Le petit caporal]

Revenge attack coming soon, some where...(?)
(2 REI, there or in Nîmes ?)
We supplied the renfort contingent !
Do not take these revindicating sons of burdens for passif coq soques

 

[Rapace]

Some details were released re the operation that led to the elimination of jihadist Abdelmalek Droukdal. Below a link to an article, with some declassified pictures, published in magazine Le Point (in French).

Comment les commandos français ont tué le chef djihadiste Droukdel

 

[Joseph Cosgrove]

Mali ambush: Gunmen kill 24 in attack on convoy

Mali ambush: Gunmen kill 24 in attack on convoy

Gunmen attack a convoy near the border with Mauritania, leaving 24 dead and others unaccounted for.

www.bbc.com

An extract from the article:
"On Saturday two UN peacekeepers were also killed when a logistics convoy was targeted in the north of the country. The UN has 13,000 troops in Mali."

[Doing what? Most of them are from 3rd world countries and are holed up in their bases getting good money and biding their time to before going home]

 

[Tom Juvenez]

 

[Joseph Cosgrove]

Cheers Tom. A pretty sophisticated PC, for an advanced post. Bravo.