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French foreign Legion - Kepi Blanc

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Broken arrow | 09:07 Mon 17th Dec 2007 | Travel
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Can any one help? I am trying to find the route that is marched by legion recruits. The name of the march I believe is the Kepi Blanc. The march takes place in the french Alps.

I am planning to carry out a small expedition using this route and I know the general area but not the exact route. I would be grateful for any assistance.
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I thought 'kepi blanc' was the name of their headwear?
Delboy is right, .I thought the same thing so I had a trawl through the net and found this .

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=French%20 Foreign%20Legion


scroll down to uniform.


heres a pic.

http://www.legionofthelost.com/gallery.html#2


Ive had a look for the route but it just says the pyrenees.


Dave.
As far as I am aware the 150km Raid Marche [supposedly to receive the K�pi Blanc but in actuality presented earlier in training, at Bel Air ("The Farm"), after a 50km march] begins at the coast near Perpignan on a return to the Basic Training camps around Castelnaudary ("Castel").

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=EN&geocod e=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=perpignan&daddr=Ca stelnaudary,+Aude,+Languedoc-Roussillon,+Franc e&sll=43.009285,2.46803&sspn=1.146798,1.999512 &ie=UTF8&ll=42.952402,2.441711&spn=1.147848,1. 999512&z=9&om=0

This is closer to the Pyrenees than the Alps.
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Sorry for the delay in reply, but thank you for you help guys, very useful.

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