1st Foreign Parachute Regiment

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1st Foreign Parachute Regiment
1er Régiment étranger de parachutistes
Regimental insigne
Active	April 1, 1948 – May 31, 1949 July 1, 1948 – September 1, 1955 February 25, 1955 – April 30, 1961
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Airborne Infantry
Part of	Co. Para du 3ème REI attached to III/1er RCP (1948–1949) previously, the 1er BEP in: 1er BEP I Formation, 1948 1er BEP II Formation, 1951 1er BEP III Formation, 1954 1er REP, 1955 10th Parachute Division, 1956
Garrison/HQ	Camp de Jeanpierre (1959) Zéralda, Algeria
Nickname(s)	Jeanpierre's Regiment Jeanpierre's Legionnaires
Motto(s)	Marche ou crève[1]
Colors	Green and Red
March	Contre les Viets
Anniversaries	Camerone Day
Engagements	First Indochina War Battle of Route Coloniale 4 Battle of Hòa Bình Operation Lorraine Battle of Nà Sản Operation Castor Battle of Dien Bien Phu Algerian War Battle of Algiers Bataille des Frontières Suez Crisis Algiers putsch of 1961
Commanders
Notable commanders	Pierre Paul Jeanpierre Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc
Abbreviation	1er REP

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (French: 1^er Régiment Etranger de Parachutistes, 1er REP) was an airborne regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army which dated its origins to 1948. The regiment fought in the First Indochina War as the three-time reconstituted 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, the Suez Crisis and Algerian War, but was dissolved along with the 10th Parachute Division and 25th Parachute Division following the generals' putsch against part of the French government in 1961.