2e REI

2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e régiment étranger d'infanterie)
Regimental badge of 2ème REI
Active	3 Apr 1841 – 1 Apr 1943 1 Aug 1945 – 1 Jan 1968 1 Sept 1972 – Present
Country	France
Allegiance	French Foreign Legion
Branch	French Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Mechanized infantry
Size	1230 men
Part of	31e Brigade (1981-1984) 6th Light Armoured Division (1990-1991) 6th Light Armored Brigade (1999-present)
Garrison/HQ	Nîmes, France
Nickname(s)	2e Étranger
Motto(s)	Être prêt ("Be ready")
Colors	Green and Red
March	Anne-Marie du "2"
Mascot(s)	Tapanar (mule)
Anniversaries	Camerone Day (April 30) El-Moungar day (September 2)
Engagements	Pacification of Algeria Crimean War Second Italian War of Independence French intervention in Mexico Franco-Prussian War Sino-French War Second Franco-Dahomean War Second Madagascar expedition Maroc 1907–1913–1921–1934 World War I Rif War World War II First Indochina War Algerian War Chadian–Libyan conflict Lebanon 1982–1984 Gulf War Yugoslavia Wars Rwandan Civil War War in Afghanistan First Ivorian Civil War Second Ivorian Civil War Northern Mali conflict Central African Republic conflict (2012–present)
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Valéry PUTZ
Notable commanders	Marshal & President Patrice MacMahon Marshal François Certain Canrobert
Insignia
Insignia of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment
Abbreviation	2ème REI

31^e Brigade
(1981-1984)
6th Light Armoured Division
(1990-1991)

The 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (French: 2^e Régiment Étranger d'Infanterie, 2^e REI) is an infantry regiment of the French Foreign Legion. The regiment is one of two mechanized infantry regiments of the 6th Light Armoured Brigade The regiment is currently stationed at Quartier Colonel Marie Louis Henry de Granet-Lacroix de Chabrières; named in honor of Colonel de Chabrières who was shot in the chest while leading a charge of the regiment. Quartier Colonel Chabrières is situated in Nimes, a historical Roman city, in the south of France.

As a mobile infantry regiment, the 2^ème REI may undertake any mission being allocated to. The Regiment has responsibility for field testing new equipment for the French Army as a whole.

Under the first restoration, the Bourbons would only conserve the Swiss, in souvenir to their loyal service rendered to France during four centuries, and with them also, four foreign regiments out of which one colonial, formed of Spanish and Portuguese. The eight reorganized foreign regiments by Napoleon at the hundred days formed in 1815 the Royal Foreign Legion (French: « Légion Royale Etrangère »), which became the Hohenlohe Legion (French: « La Légion de Hohenlohe »), then in 1821 the Hohenlohe Regiment. Licensed in 1830, the latter contributed to form the Twenty First Light, then the French Foreign Legion (French: La Légion Étrangère). The Swiss regiments of the restoration disappeared in 1830, nevertheless, the Swiss reincorporated again the French Army from 1855 to 1859 under the successive denomination of 2nd Foreign Legion (French: « La Deuxième Légion Etrangère ») and 1st Foreign Regiment (French: 1^er Régiment Etranger).