Supervised by the Gendarmerie and the French Navy, the Maritime Gendarmerie conducts maritime surveillance, assistance and rescue at sea; police security at naval bases; and police at sea. They do these jobs not only in France, but also in other countries like French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and others.
The air transport gendarmerie is similar to the Gendarmerie de L’air. The Gendarmerie de L’air conducts safety operations in air force bases and goes to accidents involving military aircraft. Its missions include securing civilian airports, surveillance of technical things in the airport (like control towers), traffic control on the roads near airports, and making sure that important visitors are safe and well protected at airports.
-Subaru Impreza WRX STI (In use until 2011)
-Renault Megane RS (In use since 2011 and on)
-BMW R1100RT Motorcycle
-IVECO Daily van
-Renault Trafic van
-Many other cars, like the Ford Focus and Transit.
-VXB VBRG Armored Personnel Carrier
-VBC-90 Armoured Combat Vehicle
-Eurocopter EC145 Helicopter
-1 Trident class Patrol boat
-2 Géranium class Patrol Boats
-2 Jonquille class Patrol Boats
-24 Vedette class Small Patrol boats
-2 Pétulante class Small Patrol Crafts
-8 Pavois Class Small Patrol Craft
-Height Adjustible Rescue Assault System (HARAS): Based on a Chevrolet Suburban.
"The GIGN makes use of the helicopters belonging to the French Air Force."
- 5 Aérospatiale AS532 Cougar Helicopter
- 2 Sud-Aviation SA330 Puma Helicopter
- 9 Eurocopter EC725 Caracal
- 1 Eurocopter EC665 Tigre
-Horses
-SIG Sauer P226 Pistol
-FAMAS Bullpup Assault Rifle
-Sig-Sauer P226
-Tear gas launcher
-T-Style Baton
"Pistols:"
-Manurhin MR 73
-Glock 19
-S&W 686
-Sig-Sauer P228
-FN Five-Seven
-Giat PAMAS G1
-Sig-Sauer Pro SP 2022
-X26 Taser
"Shotguns:"
-Remington 870
-Benelli M3 Super 90
-Franchi SPAS 12
"Sub-machine Guns: "
-HK MP5
-FN P90
"Assault Rifles:"
-HK G3 TGS
-SIG-550
-SIG-551
-HK33
-FAMAS F1
-HK G36
-HK 416
"Marksman weapons:"
-MR-73
-AW .338
-PGM Hecate II
-FAMAS F1
-Swords
Fishing reel
A fishing reel is a device attached to a fishing rod used in winding and unwinding fishing line.
Modern fishing reels are designed to help in casting for distance and accuracy. Reels also retrieve line, usually with a handle. Fishing reels are traditionally used in the recreational sport of angling. They are also used in the sport of competitive casting. Reels are usually attached to a fishing rod by some means. However specialized reels are made to be mounted directly to the boat gunwales or transoms.
The first writing describing a fishing reel is from about 1100 years ago in China. Fishing reels first appeared in England around 1650 AD. By the 1760s, London tackle shops were advertising gear-retrieved reels. An American watchmaker and inventor, George W. Snyder, invented the first gear multiplying reel abut 1810.
Pamiers
Pamiers () is a "commune" in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. It is a subprefecture of the department. Although Pamiers is the largest city in Ariège, the capital is Foix, a smaller city.
In 1111, the city was officially founded by the Count Roger II of Foix and the abbot of the of Saint Antonin of Pamiers; they built a castle (now demolished) and named it "Castrum Appamiae", after a Syrian city, Apamea, that was visited by Roger II during the First Crusade. A church was built at the foot of the castle (Our Lady of Mercadal) where is now the cathedral.
The city of Pamiers is along the Ariège river in the plain formed by this river in the northern part of the Ariège department, in southern France.
The "commune" has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Pamiers is at to the south of Toulouse, to the north of Foix and to the west of Saint-Girons.
The "commune" of Pamiers is surrounded by the "communes":
The climate of Pamiers, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of Pamiers are known, in French, as "Appaméens" (women: "Appaméennes").
With a population of 15,518, Pamiers is the city in the department with more people living in it; its population density is of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Pamiers
Pamiers forms, with other 6 "communes", the urban area of Pamiers with a population of 26,727 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Pamiers, formed by 29 "communes" with a population of 35,054 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .
Pamiers is a subprefecture of the Ariège department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Pamiers and the administrative centre () of two cantons:
It is part of the intercommunality "Les Portes d'Ariège - Pyrénées" ().
Pamiers is twinned with:
Saint-Girons, Ariège
Saint-Girons (Gascon: "Sent Gironç") is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region, southwestern France. It is the capital of the former French province of "Couserans" that forms the western part of Ariège.
Unlike its close neighbour Saint-Lizier, Saint-Girons is not an ancient city; there was however a "lucus" (a "sacred forest") on its present territory.
The city is named after Saint Girons, a saint from fifth-century Landes who evangelized in southwestern France. In the ninth century some of his relics were supposedly buried in Saint Girons' Church, around which the city later developed.
Saint-Girons is in the center of a basin at the foot of the Pyrenees and at the confluence of the Salat with the Lez and Baup rivers, in the Ariège department, southern France. The "commune" is part of the Regional Natural Park Pyrenees Ariégeoises.
The "commune" has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The "commune" of Saint-Girons is surrounded by the "communes":
The climate of Saint-Girons, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of Saint-Girons are known, in French, as "Saint-Gironnais" or "Gironnais" (women: "Saint-Gironnaises" or "Gironnaises").
Saint-Girons has a population of 6,284 (2014), and population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Saint-Girons
Saint-Girons forms, with other 3 "communes", the urban area of Saint-Girons with a population of 9,652 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Saint-Girons, formed by 39 "communes" with a population of 18,222 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .
Saint-Girons is a subprefecture of the Ariège department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Saint-Girons and the administrative centre () of the canton Couserans Ouest, with 10,686 inhabitants .
It is part of the intercommunality "Couserans - Pyrénées" ().
Saint-Girons is twinned with:
Some important buildings are:
Joanna Moore
Dorothy Joanne Cook (later Joanna Moore; November 10, 1934 – November 22, 1997) was an American movie and television actress. She appeared in more than eighty roles. She played Penny in "Appointment with a Shadow". She also acted in the 1959 TV series "The Untouchables".
Moore was born in Parrott, Georgia. She died because of lung cancer in Indian Wells, California.
Gloria Talbott
Gloria Talbott (February 7, 1931 – September 19, 2000) was an American actress who acted in movies and television. She acted in the 1959 TV series "The Untouchables". She also played Kay Scott in "All That Heaven Allows".
Talbott was born in Glendale, California. She died there from kidney failure.
Jessie Ralph
Jessie Ralph (November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944) was an American stage and movie actress. Her roles were mostly dumpy old ladies. She played Greta Garbo's maid in the movie "Camille". In "The Affairs of Cellini", she played Beatrice.
Ralph was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She also died there, at age seventy-nine.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester is a city in northeast Massachusetts. It is on Cape Ann. At the 2010 U.S. census, 28,789 people lived there.