Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: E mebiri battalion ahụ na Disemba 31, 1950; a na-eweghachi ya na Machị 1, 1951 (1st BEP, nhazi nke abụọ) ma hụ ya ka ọ na-esonye n'ọtụtụ ọgụ na Cho Ben, na osimiri ojii na Annam. N'abalị iri abụọ na otu nke ọnwa Nọvemba n'afọ 1953; ndị 1st BEP e mere ka ha dịghachi ọhụrụ na-eji parachute na Dien Bien Phu. N'agha a buru ibu, ndị e jikọtaghachiri (1st BEP, nhazi nke abụọ) 1st BEP na-agụta 575 ndị nwụrụ anwụ na ndị na-efu efu maka oge nke abụọ na
Ebe a na-alụ agha ndị agha mba ọzọ. N'ime ndị ahụ nwụrụ anwụ bụ ndị Lieutenants Dumont, Boisbouvier na de Stabenrath, bụ ndị e gburu n'agbata Eprel 1 na Mee 13 nakwa Sergeant-Chef Grimault, bụ onye e gburu na Machị 30. E guzobere ya nke ugboro atọ (1st BEP, nhazi nke atọ) na Mee 19, 1954, 1st BEP hapụrụ Indochina na February 8, 1955. 1er BEP nwere ngụkọta nke onyinye 5 na iwu nke ndị agha na fourragère nke agba nke Médaille militaire. 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (1st BEP, III Formation) ghọrọ 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1st REP) na Algeria na Septemba 1, 1955.