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The groom’s father is a retired officer of the Chasseurs alpins, the mountain forces of the French Army.

“You definitely have to prove that you’re as good as everyone else and then that you’re better,” Kelly Pennington, a member of the Chasseurs Courrier collective in Montreal, said.

Julie Mampuy, a spokeswoman for the Brussels West policing zone, one of six in the city, said in a telephone interview that the investigation, which is still underway, had shown that soldiers from the Chasseurs Ardennais Battalion, bivouacked at the Ganshoren police station for two weeks in November, had indeed organized an evening to celebrate their last night at the station during a six-day period when Brussels was in a state of virtual lockdown.

The first military company to be deployed on Belgium's streets was the Chasseurs Ardennais, an infantry unit from the Ardennes region.

There is the infantry parade; the motorized parade; the air parade; the mounted Cavalry of the Republican Guard, in plumed helmets; the National Gendarmerie, ensconced in navy and gold; the Foreign Legion, whose members grow out their beards and wear high-laced black boots and red epaulettes; and the bereted Chasseurs Alpins, to name but a few, as Alpha Jets stream blue, white, and red contrails above them in the sky.