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The National Centre for Commando Training, (French: Centre national d'entraînement commando, CNEC) is a French Army training centre. It is a centre d'aguerrissement [] located in Mont-Louis and Collioure in the Pyrenees-Orientales department, and is part of the Sous-direction formation et des écoles de la direction des ressources humaines de l'Armée de terre (DRHAT/SDFE).
Trier (/ t r ɪər / TREER, German: ⓘ; Luxembourgish: Tréier [ˈtʀəɪɐ] ⓘ), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves (/ t r ɛ v / TREV, French:) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany.
S. École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. School of Applied Artillery. Categories: Military training establishments of France. French Army installations. Army training installations.
The Bundeswehr (raid-) commando course (German: Einzelkämpferlehrgang) is a course conducted by the German Bundeswehr. The course was established in the early 1980s and is aimed on testing the physical and mental endurance of participants. It teaches special skills and tactics necessary to operate and survive under stressful conditions, and ...
Emperor Napoleon visited Trier in 1804. In this time, French Trier began to prosper. In 1814, the French era ended suddenly as Trier was taken by Prussian troops. After the defeat of Napoleon, the Franco-German borders of 1792 were restored in the 1814 and 1815 Paris peace treaties.
The Commandos Marine were formed in 1942 during World War II in the United Kingdom and were modelled on the British Commandos (who were founded in 1940). They were formed from Free French volunteers from different services, mainly from Navy Fusiliers Marins (protection forces), other navy specialities and even from the army.
French 1st Army operations, April 15 - May 8, 1945. On April 15, 1st Army Corps was given the mission of crossing the Rhine, traversing the Black Forest, and sweeping South Baden of German Army troops. The 4 e DMM drove directly on Freudenstadt, an important Black Forest road junction, capturing it on April 17, 1945.
The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr ( ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ siʁ] ). It is located in Coëtquidan in Guer, Morbihan, Brittany. Its motto is Ils s'instruisent pour vaincre, literally meaning "They study ...