1st Parachute Hussar Regiment

The 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment (1er Régiment de Hussards Parachutistes, 1er RHP) is an airborne cavalry unit in the French army. It is stationed in Tarbes and is a part of the 11th Parachute Brigade.

Composition
The 1st RHP consists of:
 * Command and Logistics Squadron (ECL)
 * 1st Squadron, Air-transportable armored (1er Escadron)
 * 6 VBL
 * 3 AMX 10 RC
 * 6 VAB C20
 * 2nd Squadron, Air-transportable armored (2e Escadron)
 * 13 VBL
 * 12 ERC 90 Sagaie
 * 3rd Squadron, Reconnaissance and Anti-Tank (ERIAC) (only unit fully parachutable, both men and equipment) (3e Escadron)
 * VBL
 * VBL reconnaissance, 7.62 mm AA-52 machine gun
 * VBL anti-tank, MILAN anti-tank missile
 * VBL support, 12.7 mm M2 Browning machine gun
 * VBL command
 * 4th Squadron, Air-transportable armored (4e Escadron)
 * 13 VBL
 * 12 ERC 90 Sagaie
 * 5th Squadron, operational reserve (5e Escadron)
 * 11th Squadron, training and education (disbanded on 14 January 2011)
 * GCP Platoon
 * Two teams of ten commandos.

Vehicles



 * AMX 10 RC (3)
 * ERC 90 Sagaie (36)
 * Véhicule Blindé Léger (68)
 * Peugeot P4 (84)
 * Cagiva motorcycles
 * Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé

Weapons

 * MILAN anti-tank guided missile (24)

Battle honours



 * Valmy 1792
 * Jemmapes 1792
 * Castiglione 1796
 * Eylau 1807
 * Sebastopol 1855
 * La Mortagne 1914
 * La Serre 1918
 * AFN 1952-1962

Decorations

 * Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with one vermeil star.
 * Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with one palm.

Lineage



 * 1720: Bercheny
 * 1791: 1er Régiment de Hussards
 * 1814: Hussards du Roi
 * 1815: 1er Régiment de Hussards
 * 1815: Dissolved
 * 1816: Hussards du Jura
 * 1824: Hussards de Chartres
 * 1848: 1er Régiment de Hussards
 * 1928: Dissolved
 * 1928: 1er Régiment de Hussards
 * 1940: Dissolved
 * 1945: 1er Régiment de Hussards
 * 1946: 1er Régiment de Hussards Parachutistes

Campaigns

 * 1733 War of the Polish Succession
 * 1741-1748 War of the Austrian Succession
 * 1756-1763 Seven Years' War
 * 1792-1802 French Revolutionary Wars
 * 1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars
 * 1831 Ten Days' Campaign
 * 1854 Crimean War
 * 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War
 * 1871-1882 Algeria
 * 1914-1918 World War I
 * 1940 World War II
 * 1946 Algeria
 * 1948 First Indochina War
 * 1956 Morocco
 * 1956-1961 Algeria
 * 1978 Lebanon, UNIFIL
 * 1979 Chad, Opération Tacaud
 * 1983 Lebanon
 * 1984 Chad, Operation Manta
 * 1990 Gulf War
 * 1993 Yugoslavia, UNPROFOR
 * 1994 Rwanda, Opération Turquoise
 * 1995 Chad
 * 1995 Yugoslavia, UNPROFOR
 * 1996 Yugoslavia, IFOR
 * 1999 Macedonia
 * 1999 Albania
 * 1999 French Guiana
 * 1999 Chad, Operation Epervier
 * 1999 Kosovo
 * 2000 Côte d'Ivoire
 * 2001 Kosovo, KFOR
 * 2001 Côte d'Ivoire
 * 2002 Chad, Operation Epervier
 * 2002 Kosovo, KFOR
 * 2002 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
 * 2003 DR Congo, Operation Artemis
 * 2003 Central African Republic
 * 2003 Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFOR
 * 2003 Kosovo, KFOR
 * 2003 Afghanistan
 * 2004 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
 * 2004 Haiti
 * 2004 Senegal
 * 2004 Kosovo
 * 2005 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
 * 2006 Afghanistan
 * 2006 Côte d'Ivoire, Operation Unicorn
 * 2006 Kosovo
 * 2007 Afghanistan
 * 2007 Kosovo
 * 2007 Chad, Operation Epervier
 * 2008 Afghanistan
 * 2008-2009 Chad, EUFOR Tchad/RCA
 * 2010 Kosovo
 * 2010 Afghanistan