FOREIGN LEGION TEST FIRE

TAKEN: NOVEMBER, 1990

French Foreign Legion troops conduct live firing exercises in Saudi Arabia, in preparation for the intervention in Iraq, during the Gulf War. French participation in the war was named Opération Daguet, launched on 23 September and comprising a force of approximately 16,000. Among the French contingent were several regiments of the Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère), including the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment, members of which are shown here training with an LRAC anti-tank weapon and FAMAS machine guns.