Demi-brigade de fusiliers marins

The Naval Infantry Demi-Brigade (Fr: Demi-brigade de fusiliers marins, DBFM) is a French Navy unit currently engaged in the Sahel War. =History= Established in December 2009 for service in West Africa. Three rifle-security companies were drawn from fusiliers marins units at naval bases at Toulon, Brest, and Cherbourg. A fourth company was raised from a mix of French and Belgian volunteers and designated with the cermonial title "Dixmude." A veteran commando unit, Commando d Montfort, was attached to the demi-brigade to provide a special operations capability. A naval aviation detachment equipped with SA-316B Alouette III and A-321GA Super Frelon helicopters was added to the demi-brigade before deployment. Reinforced on arrival in West Africa with a company of Senegalese marines and a company of Ivorian marines.

=Organization= DBFM order of battle, 1 January 2010: =Status=
 * Compagnie de commandement et de soutien (CCS)
 * 1er compagnie de fusiliers marins (1er CFM)
 * 2e compagnie de fusiliers marins (2e CFM)
 * 3e compagnie de fusiliers marins (3e CFM)
 * 4e compagnie de fusiliers marins (4e CFM) « Dixmude »
 * 1er compagnie de fusiliers marins de sénégalais (1er CFMS)
 * 1er compagnie de fusiliers marins de ivorien (1er CFMI)
 * Commando de Montfort
 * Détachement d’intervention hélicoptèr (DIH)
 * Subordination: CEFSM
 * Current Location: West Africa
 * Manpower: 600
 * Armoured Vehicles: 0
 * Aircraft: 4

=Equipment=

Small arms
The demi-brigade is equipped with standard French Union Army weapons, including the FAMAS F1 and FAMAS G2 rifles, the FN FNC rifle, the FN Minimi light machine gun, and the ANF1 general purpose machine gun.

Vehicles
The demi-brigade is equipped with TRM 2000 4x4 trucks, Peugeot P4 4x4 jeeps, and VBL light armoured vehicles. The demi-brigade has also acquired a number of former enemy vehicles that it has pressed into use, notably "technicals" armed with machine guns.

Aircraft
The demi-brigade helicopter detachment has two SA-316B Alouette II helicopters and two SA-321GA Super Frelon helicopters.

=Commanders= (placeholder)