Alain Bouquin

Alain Bouquin (born 1958) was a Général of the French Army and the Commandant of the Foreign Legion.

Military career

Saint-Cyrien of the promotion of « Général Paul-Frédéric Rollet » (1978–1980), he was assigned after one year at Montpellier, to the 4th Foreign Regiment 4e RE in 1980. One year later in 1981, he was assigned to the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2e R.E.P until 1990, occupying the functions of section (platoon) chief, assistant officer, Commandant (Major) of a combat company, then officer in charge of the instruction and operations bureau.

After one year at the general staff headquarters of the 3rd Corps, he integrated in 1991 National Superior Technical Advanced School as a trainee of the technical brevet of the EMSST. Graduate in 1993 of the 107th promotion of the Superior Course of the general staff headquarters, he joined one year later, the 2nd promotion of the Interarm Defense College .

From 1995 to 2000, he served successively at the general staff headquarters of the Armies at the bureau of study then at the general staff headquarters staff of French Forces stationed in Djibouti as division chief of operations. During his career, général Bouquin participated to numerous exterior operations, most notably in Chad and Central African Republic (1984, 1986, 1988, 1989) as well as Kosovo in 2001.

On 1 April 2011, général Bouquin was promoted to the rank of Général de division and while in function, he was subsequently promoted to Général de corps d'armée.

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