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Is there any Unit of Special forces deployed along Pakistan border? ?
Yes..Para SF are involved in cross border raids.
Marcos saw lots of action in 2002-05 period in Kashmir, so if you are saying they were deployed only in kashmir...was there lots of encounters going on in that area? One of Marco guy told me once(i didnt meet him since then)
He told me that he visited gulf countries too for exercises with respective counterparts. But I hardly see any such in any publications/net.
Not only during that period but in the SL war with LTTE and in the gulf of aden.
They are active around wular lake as the only reason to bring them was to end the arms trafficking and minimise the terrorist movement in and around the wular.
They did the job pretty well and then they started gathering intel and conducting operations which were not amphibious in nature.
The point you see me debating here very often is that Kupwara (uri,hafruda,lolab and handwara) is hardcore terrorist area and is the capital of any Para SF deployed in Kashmir.
And Marcos are not deployed there.Para SF deploys 6-8 man teams which do not interschuffle team members even with RR Ghataks which are by the way also very good.
Last year a Marcos officer in a joint operation with Para SF won a gallantry award when he rushed towards the terrorists armed with PKM and killed them avoiding casualties.He got hit in the legs.But this was near Srinagar and not in Kupwara.
Regarding the exercises i am only aware of Marcos regularly working with Seals.We dont get to hear much about their deployment as Indian SOF are secretive in nature.
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