Service Dress jacket 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment 70s (Tunic de 2em Legion Entrangere)

The 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (French: 2e Régiment Étranger d'Infanterie, 2e 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[1] 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 2ème REI may undertake any mission being allocated to. The Regiment has responsibility for field testing new equipment for the French Army as a whole

• On January 1, 1946; the regiment was renamed the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2^èmeR.E.I).
  
• From 1946 to 1945 : the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment took part in the First Indochina War and receives 9 citations at the orders of the armed forces.
  

• From 1955 to 1956 : the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment rejoined Tunisia, then Morocco.
  
• From 1956 to 1962 : the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment participated in combat operations during the Algerian War.
  
• From 1962 to 1967 : the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment was placed at the disposition of central command of military sites in the Sahara.
  
• On January 1, 1968; the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment was dissolved.