Celebrating 25 Years
October 2, 2020 (Google Translation) – From September 21 to 24, 2020, four of the six buildings of the armed forces in the Antilles, (FAA) armed by 150 sailors, participated in a series of operational training in the Caribbean Sea as part of the unprecedented exercise LANMEKOL. With the LANMEKOL mutual training, similar to the GABIAN and MORSKOUL exercises of…
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September 9, 2020 (Google Translation) – On Wednesday, September 2 in the early hours of the morning, the overseas support and assistance building (BSAOM) Dumont D’Urville approached the port of Marigot in the north-east of Martinique. On this Atlantic coast windswept, a section of the 1 st company of the 33 th Marine Infantry Regiment (RIMA) is preparing to embark.…
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August 17, 2020 (Google Translation) – At the dawn of the peak of the hurricane season, the overseas support and assistance building Dumont D’Urville will deliver until September 3, 2020 more than 4 tons of humanitarian material to 5 Caribbean countries. This logistical assistance for the armed forces in the Antilles comes at the request of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency…
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July 10, 2020 (Google Translation) – Alerted on Wednesday 1st July by the Regional Operational Center Surveillance and Rescue in the Antilles and Guiana (CROSS AG), the top military commander in the West Indies ordered sending the support ship and overseas aid (BSAOM) Dumont D’Urville to assist two fishermen who went to sea the previous evening on board a fishing…
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May 28, 2020 (Google Translation) – Based in Fort-de-France, the overseas support and assistance building (BSAOM) Dumont d’Urville, admitted to active service on April 17, brings to the armed forces in the Antilles (FAA) a new light amphibious capability . Among the means of this particularly versatile new building is indeed a service boat capable of transporting and disembarking vehicles,…
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