A paratrooper hussar takes command of the EUTM RCA mission in Bangui
(B2 - exclusive) After a year and a half in Bangui, Portuguese Brigadier General Hermínio Teodoro Maio will hand over, from July 8, the command of the EU Central African Army Training Mission (EUTM RCA), to a French counterpart, Brigadier General Éric Peltier, according to the text of the decision seen by B2
The ambassadors of the COPS (political and security committee) must endorse the principle this Wednesday (June 19). The decision will be published in the coming days in the official journal.
A man of the armored cavalry
Éric Peltier has a particular operational tropism. Admitted to the special military school of Saint-Cyr in 1990, he chose the cavalry armored weapon upon leaving and joined the cavalry armored weapon application school in Saumur in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, he commanded a platoon of tanks in the 2nd dragoon regiment at Laon. In July 1996, he joined the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment (RHP) of Tarbes, first as an armored platoon leader, then as an assistant squadron officer. He then participated twice in the operation 'Almandine', in the Central African Republic. In 1999, he took command of an armored squadron and was engaged in Chad (Operation Sparrowhawk) and Kosovo (Operation Trident). In 2002, he went to the schools of Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan to train a company of cadets from the combined arms military school. In 2004, he joined the senior staff course.
Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan
He was sent to Haiti to serve as MINUSTAH intelligence officer and military adviser to the French ambassador in Port-au-Prince. In 2006, he returned to the 1st Parachute Hussar Regiment, as head of the operations-instruction office. He is engaged in Kosovo within KFOR as Deputy Chief of Operations of the Multinational Task Force North. In July 2008, he was assigned to the staff of the 11th parachute brigade in Toulouse. Head of the employment-operations office, he was then hired in Afghanistan to occupy the position of deputy head of operations of the " Regional Command Capital in Kabul.
Chief of the 1st RHP
From April 2010, he will be in charge of strategic affairs with the Chief of the Defense Staff, Admiral Édouard Guillaud, before returning (for the third time) to Tarbes in 2012, with the rank from Colonel, to command the 1st RHP. He was then deployed to Lebanon as head of the reserve force of UNIFIL (the United Nations interim force in Lebanon), a unit of 900 men. He will then be in charge of joint performance at the Army General Staff and, in 2015-2016, auditor at the 68th session of the Institute for Advanced National Defense Studies (IHEDN). He has just been promoted to brigadier general on June 1st.
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