French forces in Djibouti

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French forces in Djibouti
 Djibouti
Site information
Operator France
Controlled byFrench Armed Forces
ConditionOperational
Site history
Built forMilitary Airbase, Joint base
Garrison information
Current
commander		Eric Gernez
Occupants1,450 soldiers (2018)

The French forces in Djibouti (FFDj) (French: Les forces françaises stationnées à Djibouti, lit. 'The French forces stationed in Djibouti') is a French overseas military base. It constitutes the most, numerically to the French military contingent outside France. The French military remains present in Djibouti since the territory's accession to independence. Starting June 1977 the conditions of the French forces were set by the framework of a provisional protocol (equivalent to a defense agreement).[1] A new agreement has been in force since 2014.[2]

History[]

The workforce at the start of 2015 was 1,950 people.

During the mid-2018, the force was downsized and 1,450 staff were present.[3]

Operations[]

The general commanding the French forces stationed in Djibouti has a joint staff. At the start of 2015, he commanded around 1,950 soldiers, 1,400 of whom were permanent, belonging to pre-positioned and rotating units which constitute the presence forces. During the summer of 2015, the workforce fell to between 1,650 and 1,750 people.[4][5]

The military base is managed by the Djibouti Defense Base Support Group.

Ground Units[]

Shot from one of five Humvees launches missiles SS 11 of the 5th RIAOM to Goubad (30 km southwest of Djibouti) in 1971.
Canon TRF1 155 deployed by the 93rd Mountain Artillery Regiment in Djibouti in 2010.

The 1 November 1969 the 5th regiment arms overseas is recreated in Djibouti on the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas by change of name of the 57th RIAOM he maintains the motto "Proud and strong." On that date, he inherited the pennant and traditions of the Somali Battalion.

The 5th RIAOM is today the last combined arms regiment of the French Army . Its location, as well as the missions entrusted to the Republic of Djibouti, a region of the Globe in perpetual evolution and with multiple upheavals, impose a permanent operational posture on it. It is also the traditional regiment of Djibouti.

Grouped in the Brière de l'Isle district, it is made up of:

  • The CCL provides operational logistics as well as the implementation of the regiment's command post. It also arms the combat training and hardening centre of Djibouti (CECAD). This centre accommodates permanent units or short-term missions of the 5 th RIAOM, other units of the FFDj, units or schools in metropolitan France, Djiboutian and foreign forces.
  • The 1st infantry company acute mission equipped with VAB and antitank missiles;
  • The 3rd armoured squadron in short mission, equipped with AMX 10 RC ;
  • The 6th battery unit artillery soil - soil acute mission equipped with TRF1 and mortar 120 mm.

Since the 1 st August 2008 the Battalion of the Light Air Djibouti (BATALAT) is attached to the 5 th RIAOM. Since becoming a Detachment of the Light Aviation of the Army (DETALAT) with 70 soldiers, it was equipped at the end of 2014 with four Puma helicopters and two Gazelle-Hot.[6]

Air Units[]

The squadron of French Somaliland (CFS) is incorporated on April 1, 1933, the field of Saline, with three Potez 25 TOE and a Potez 29 detached health of the 39th of parked aircraft regiment in the Levant. The Djibouti air base was transferred to Gabode land in 1935.[7]

In 2011, the BA 188 accommodated around fifteen aircraft, and being a support base with a joint vocation, it also accommodated many support units including an armed ground-air defense section of 8 20 mm twin-tubes and 8 firing stations of Mistral missiles. It also hosts two squadrons:

  • 3/11 Corse fighter squadron with 4 Mirage 2000-5F and 3 Mirage 2000 D[8]
  • Overseas Transport Squadron 88 Larzac flying on a Transall C-160 until July 2019 and since then on a CASA CN-235 and three SA330 Puma.[9]

In addition, a permanent detachment from naval aeronautics ( Breguet Atlantic, then Breguet Atlantique 2 ) is permanently stationed there.

Naval Units[]

The French Navy has two equipment transport barges. It maintains special forces for training and combating piracy around the Horn of Africa .

Lists of French losses in Djibouti[]

Dated Military Age Rank[10] Home army Unit Cause of death
05/05/2008 Matus Talas 2nd Class Army 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment Cardiac arrest
22/11/2013 Laurent Fleau 42 Warrant Officer Land Force Road accident
07/11/2017 Unknown Army 1st Foreign Cavalry Regimen Road accident
07/21/2018 Arnaud Peyrony-Rapatout 37 Chief Petty Officer Navy Penfentenyo Commando Road accident

References[]

  1. ^ See the text of the agreement of 27 June 1977 at 19851110 & numTexte = & pageDebut = 13060 Légifrance.
  2. ^ See the text of the 2011 agreement, which entered into force on May 2014, online at ? cidTexte = JORFTEXT000028937046 & categorieLien = id Légifrance,
  3. ^ "Selon un sénateur, "il faut s'attendre à des conflits de type canal de Suez" à Djibouti". Zone Militaire (in French). 2018-05-31. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  4. ^ "Chiffres clés de la Défense - 2015". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  5. ^ Leader, Mamouth. "Djibouti perd 300 postes cet été" (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  6. ^ Facebook, About the Author La rédaction (2014-11-15). "SPÉCIAL DJIBOUTI – L'ALAT prépositionnée dans la Corne de l'Afrique - Opérationnels SLDS". Opérationnels – Soutien, Logistique, Défense, Sécurité (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  7. ^ "80 years of aerial presence in Djibouti". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  8. ^ "Djibouti: the "Corsica" takes over from the" Vexin". archive.wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-15. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  9. ^ "L'avion de transport Transall C-160 a fait ses adieux aux Forces françaises stationnées à Djibouti". Zone Militaire (in French). 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  10. ^ When a member obtains the next higher rank posthumously, the rank indicated is most often the rank at time of death.

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