 Returned to their new reserve garrison with the induction of volunteers for the duration of the war, it was not possible to the maintain the entirety of the units.The 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment was then dissolved and absorbed by the 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment, with command entrusted to Lieutenant-Colonel de Bollardière.On 2 October 1945, during an honorary ceremony in honor of the French SAS regiments of the 24th Airborne Division, Brigadier Calvert bestowed the Wellington Chapeau on the 3rd RCP and that of Napoleon on the 2nd RCP.