511th RT Auxonne: "We are ready, we expect the order of projection"

150-200 of 511 military e RT Auxonne will leave for Mali. They will arm the battalion logistics operation Serval.

It's now official: the 511th Regiment Train Auxonne based logistics arm the battalion prepares to join Mali. The commander of this battalion will even Velut colonel, commanding officer of the regiment auxonnais.

The neighborhood Bonaparte, regimental barracks, "the plan is completed rise," says Captain Lucas, Senior Assistant: "The force is established, the trucks are ready, the equipment is shipped. We do not expect that the starting order. '

It took soldiers auxonnais show a high reactivity: the operation was carried out in 48 hours. Between the appointment of staff, the rise and packaging materials, integrating elements of other units (such as the police to the army) who joined the battalion, all services have been mobilized the regiment. And Sunday, General Jacquement (which dipped the flag RCR 602, then based in Dijon, in the Euphrates during the Gulf War, and commanded the battalion logistics of KFOR in Kosovo as commander of the 511th RT ), now commander of the 1st Brigade logistics went to Auxonne to assess the progress of preparations and greet military departure. Hundred and fifty to two hundred soldiers auxonnais should go to Mali with all of their equipment.

The device support to families, as in every external operation conducted by the regiment is already enabled.

And command, yesterday we welcomed "the support of the Municipality of Auxonne and responsiveness."The trucks could cross the gates of the Bonaparte area in the coming hours to reach their place of departure for Africa.