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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: French Foreign Legion - alive and well
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.042412.28071@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 04:24:12 GMT
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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)

In article <1990Jul31.223552.6309@cbnews.att.com>, c8636248@cc.nu.oz.au writes:
>    The only operational deployment that the Legion has made recently that I
> can remember is in Chad, another former French colony.

France uses the Legion for foreign (and not so foreign) interventions.
There have been several uses in Africa besides Chad, I belive.  Also,
I think they sent the Legion to New Caledonia (an overseas department
of France) to deal with civil unrest there.