9th regiment of marines

The 9th Regiment of Marines (9th RIMa) is a Régiment Troupes of navy (Army) of the French Army , currently stationed in French Guiana, at the same time on Cayenne, with the Loubère district (staff and principal portion) and on a river detachment on the Maroni, with Saint-Jean-of-Maroni the (common of Saint-Laurent-of-Maroni the), on one of the sites of old the bagne.

9th RIMa is the heir to the regiment of walk of Tonkin, the 9 {{E}} Régiment of Colonial Infantry and of the 9th battalion of marines (created in 1976 in Guyana) from which it is resulting.

Traditions

; The festival of the troops of navy
  • It is celebrated at the time of the birthday of the combat of BAZEILLES. This village which was 4 times taken again and gave up on orders, the August 31st and on September 1st, 1870.
; And in the name of God, colonial the
  • lives the Porpoises and Bigors has as patron saint God himself. This war cry finishes the intimate ceremonies which belong to the life of the regiments.

flag

  • Currency of 9th RIMa: " Porpoises toujours"
  • Creation date: 1890, recreated under its initial name in 1992
; Its flag bears seven names of battles registered in its folds: ; The feats of arms suitable were added for 9th R.I.Ma:
  • TIEN-TSIN 1900
  • BEIJING 1900
  • INDO-CHINA 1945-1946
  • AFN 1952-1962

It carries the Military Cross 1939-1945 with a palm, and profited from one mention in dispatches (1939-1945).

Its flag was buried with Hanoi not to be seized by the Japan board, the March 9th 1945.

Traditions

; The festival of the troops of navy
  • It is celebrated at the time of the birthday of the combat of BAZEILLES. This village which was 4 times taken again and gave up on orders, the August 31st and on September 1st, 1870.
; And in the name of God, colonial the
  • lives the Porpoises and Bigors has as patron saint God himself. This war cry finishes the intimate ceremonies which belong to the life of the regiments.

History

  • January 23rd 1888: Regiment of walk nº 2 of Tonkin
  • March 10th 1890: creation of the 9th RIMa with the Tonkin, by transformation of the regiment of walk n° 2
  • January 1st 1901: becomes the ''' 9 {{E}} regiment of colonial infantry ''', it takes part in the maintenance of peace in the area tonkinoise
  • March 10th, 1945: dissolution of the 9th RIC
  • September 16th, 1945: creation of the Battalion of walk of the 9th RIC
  • October 15th, 1946: dissolution of the Battalion of walk in Indo-China
  • April 18th, 1956: rebirth of the 9th RIC and participation in the operations of Algeria (become since War of Algeria), in Kabylie
  • December 1st, 1958: becomes again 9th RIMa and form new the ''' 3 {{E}} RIMa ''' starting from I/9e RIMa
  • March 31st, 1963: dissolution of 9th RIMa
  • April 1st, 1963: becomes the 24e RIMa/9e Bataillon of Marines
  • July 1st, 1964: dissolution
  • September 1st, 1976: creation of the 9th BIMa (battalion of marines) in Guyana
  • October 1st, 1992: The 9th RIMa
becomes again

Mission and Organization

9th RIMa is an operational regiment of infantry and support (it supports the higher command of the French forces in Guyana) - which fulfills a double mission in a typically South American environment. Integrated into its environment thanks to recruitment, with its establishments in creole medium, country Amerindian Bushi-Nengué and and thanks to its neighbors surinamais and Brésil iens, it evolves/moves in a physical environment marked by great elongations and an equatorial climate testing which make department an exceptional framework of instruction of drive and work. Being pressed on a permanent base, mainly resulting from the troops of navy but cash from the soldiers from all the weapons and services, the regiment accommodates 70% of personnel on mission of short duration. Its experts of the equatorial medium develop a federator project of school of the forest and river with the profit of the 1.380 turnings which are useful in its rows each year.

9th RIMa, within the general framework of the assertion of national sovereignty in this French department of South America, has a double mission within a framework interarmées:

  • of infantry (with missions along Maroni and in deep , in the interior of the territory, to the boundary stones with the Brazil).
  • of support of the terrestrial forces (CM) and EMIA (CQG)

The specificity of the regiment rests on the duality of the mission and the originality of the means implemented.

Structures:

9th RIMa is composed of six companies stationed on Cayenne and Saint-Jean-of-Maroni:

  • 1 company of command and logistics;
  • 1 company of general headquarter;
  • 1 company of maintenance;
  • 1 company forest;
  • 1 company of reserve;
  • 2 companies river and nautical cell stationed at Midsummer's Day of Maroni.

Major materials

High-speed motorboats outboard motor boat, Dugout S (of Amerindian type, built by Noirs chestnuts which lives along the Maroni), barge, station of shooting Milan, stations of shooting Eryx, mortars of 120 mm, machine-guns of 12,7 mm MAC M, light armament of infantry.

song of the regiment of 9th of Navy

  • 1st verse:

  • Of Tonkin in Guyana

  • De Hanoi in the island Cayenne
  • On the jonques ones of the red river
With the dugouts of the maroni.

  • Refrain:

  • the gold anchor of the new figure

  • Out of Amazonian ground
  • Of trijonction on terminal six
  • the green hell of the porpoise.

2nd verse:

  • On the track of our old

  • Aujourd'hui we advance
  • We are proud to be used
  • With the ninth as Navy.

  • Refrain:

  • the gold anchor of the new figure

  • Out of Amazonian ground
  • Of trijonction on terminal six
  • the green hell of the porpoise.

See too

External bonds

  • Site of the Army on the 9 {{E}} RIMa
  • semi-official Site of friendly of the 9 {{E}} RIMa
  • Site of the troops of navy
  • Museum of the troops of marine of Frejus

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