Legionnaires Trained in California, August 2025
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A flat screenshot of a Google AI Overview card in light mode. The text reads: "In August 2025, U.S. Marines and French Foreign Legionnaires from the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) trained together at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California as part of the Service Level Training Exercise (SLTE) 4-25. The exercise, which ran from August 4 to 25, focused on improving interoperability between the two allied forces through realistic scenarios like close-quarters combat and urban terrain training."
This is the one checkable, uncontested fact underneath the France thread: a French Foreign Legion unit was training on American soil in the weeks immediately before September 10, 2025. Joint exercises between allied militaries are routine and publicly announced, and the exercise ran at a base in California, not in Utah.
Researchers file it here because it is the factual anchor that claims about French involvement attach themselves to. Presence in the country for a scheduled allied exercise is not evidence of anything, and nothing connects any participant in SLTE 4-25 to events in Utah. The relationship between this exercise and the wider claims is asserted, not demonstrated. See French Foreign Legion Claims and Timeline.
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