Composition of The Parade
The parade involves around 7,000 soldiers (5,000 on foot, the rest are crew members or cavalrymen), 300 vehicles, 240 horses and more than 80 planes and helicopters.
March past in slow and quick time
- French Republican Guard Infantry Regiments
- Military Polytechnic School
- National Gendarmerie Officer School
- Saint-Cyr Special Military School
- Military Inter-arms School
- Military Academy of the Technical and Administrative Corps
- Naval Military Academy
- Marine Commissariat Officers Cadet School
- Air Force Academy
- Military School of the Air
- National Active Non-Commissioned Officers School
- French Defense Health Service Schools (Bordeaux and Lyon-Bron)
- National Gendarmerie NCO Academy
- ENSOA (Army's NCO Academy)
- Ecole de Maistrance (Navy NCO Academy/NCO Training School)
- ESOA (Air Force NCO Academy)
- French Navy Naval Fusiliers
- French Navy Submarine Force
- French Navy Surface Forces
- French Naval Aviation
- French Navy Maritime Gendarmerie
- French Army Armoured Cavalry Branch
- French Army Parachute Forces Units
- French Army Infantry and Mountain Troops
- French Army Artillery Command
- French Army Engineers Command
- French Army Marine Troops
- French Army Transport Command
- French Army Materials and Quartermaster Command
- French Army Signals
- French Air Force Air Fusiliers
- French Air Force Air Gendarmerie
- French Air Force Logistics
- French National Police School
- National Police Superior School
- National Police Superior Officers School
- Interior Ministry Security Service
- National Firefighting Service Officer Commissioning Academy
- National Firefighting Service NCO School
- Paris Fire Brigade
- French Foreign Legion Foreign Engineers
- Central Band of the French Foreign Legion
- French Foreign Legion Foreign Cavalry
- French Foreign Legion Foreign Infantry
Mounted Column
- Mounted Fanfare Band of the French Republican Guard
- Cavalry Regiment of the French Republican Guard
Mobile Column
- Motorcycle Squadrons of the French Gendarmerie (Republican Guard and Departmental Gendarmerie)
- French Army Operational Force High Command
- Alpine Hunters Regiment, Army Mountain Troops
- 16th Rifle Hunter Battalion
- 1st Medical Regiment
- French Army Transportation
- French Army Materials and Quartermaster Command
- French Army Motorized and Mechanized Infantry
- French Army Artillery Command
- French Army Armored Cavalry Branch (Spahis, Hussards, Mounted Rifle Hunters and African Rifle Hunters, Dragoons, Cuirassiers and 501st-503rd Tank)
- French Army Engineers Command vehicles
- French Army Marine Infantry vehicles
- French Army Marine Artillery
- French Foreign Legion mobile vehicles (infantry and engineers)
- Paris Fire Brigade
Aerial Flypast Column
- Patrouille de France
- French Air Force Air Squadrons and Flights
- French Army Light Aviation
- French Naval Aviation
- Interior Ministry Civil Security Air Service
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