Selection
Selection for 2e REP takes 4 weeks. The first 2 weeks are physical tests across terrain. Parachute training takes place at Camp Raffalli and runs for 2 weeks with a total of 6 jumps.
2e REP is the only regiment of the Legion which trains its paratroopers. Indeed, the Legionnaires spend their parachute training in Calvi TAP within the walls of the regiment. All other Army units are trained at the École des troupes aéroportées (ETAP) in Pau. This is the ideal location of the Legion 2nd REP and specially that causes Legionnaires get their patent with them.
Every new legionnaire 2e REP password assigned to a TAP instruction compulsory. This training is called "promotion" or "the promo" that lasts 2 to 4 weeks depending on aircraft availability for the session jumping. When "the promotion" lasts two weeks, the first is devoted to instructions on the ground and the second of flight and jumping. In the event this training is extended for a week, they include the combat formation.
After spending basic training at Castelnaudary, the legionnaires are assigned to regiments of the Legion. Those who have the ability and chance after assignment to Aubagne are grouped by an NCO from Calvi, who is responsible for their recovery. Usually this is a monitor that will give them technical TAP instructions in "the promotion". After taking into account the legions of young legionnaire, a non-commissioned officer takes them on a ferry to Corsica. They are recovered by a bus in an island port.
The arrival at the barracks of the 2nd REP is on a Saturday morning. During the weekend, still under the command of the monitor, the new promo visit the Camp Raffalli Legionnaires and paratroopers museum. The first week of "promoting", the future legionnaire paratrooper passes a series of physical tests, tests TAP:
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