Recent Deployment
The regiment has several roles. The first is to guard the Guiana Space Centre (French: Centre Spatial Guyanais, CSG). From 2008 it has been tasked with fighting against illegal gold mining operations. Thirdly it provides a standby force for operations in the region such as in Operation Carbet, Haiti in 2004. It also runs the French Jungle Training Centre (French: Centre d'entraînement en forêt équatoriale, CEFE) at Regina. Founded in 1986 it has trained more than 35 000 troops from various countries.
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