Indian Special Forces

[Abingdonboy]

no, bro. at the time the anti piracy operation was conducted he was in marcos

Are you sure about that? He was active duty MARCOs at that time?

never heard about navy seals doing that. once a navy officer or enlisted men is selected as seals then he will serve as seal and never go for commanding the ship.

Not true. They are still part of the navy, once they have completed their tour of duty with whatever unit they are eleigable to join other streams just like any other sailor- there are plenty of examples of such, it is simply the case that many don't do that and that most of the SEALs are enlisted ranks and so can't go on to do so anyway.

 

[hkdas]

Are you sure about that? He was active duty MARCOs at that time?

yes... he was CO of marcos in that operation. that operation was conduced few months after he returns from US after SEAL training.

The captain of the Cankarso, Commander Arun Bahuguna. He's the man who busted 15 pirates. They didn't know they were tangling with a Marine Commando who has also topped the US Navy SEAL course. In fact, when he was asked which of the two course he found tougher, he replied, 'If I had to repeat the courses and I had a choice, I would repeat the SEAL course'.

Images: Pirate Hunter INS Cankarso | StratPost

Not true. They are still part of the navy, once they have completed their tour of duty with whatever unit they are eleigable to join other streams just like any other sailor- there are plenty of examples of such, it is simply the case that many don't do that and that most of the SEALs are enlisted ranks and so can't go on to do so anyway.

but those who selected as seals are permanently selected as seals.. now their training and mandates are entirely different from an officer of enlisted men serving in ship. so how can some one rejoin after a long time?? he would have lost the touch with work in the ship.
bro can you post any reports, news of former seals who is serving in ships as officer or enlisted men??

 

[Abingdonboy]

NSG from the Chennai Hub in Bengaluru:

It seems the new ACH helmet hasn't made it to all operators in the NSG yet (which is a huge shame) and especially those in the hubs. The Main CT task force in Delhi seem to get all the newest gear first.

Not sure it would offer the best protection but the NSG in their current gear and with high-cut FAST helmets would look awesome. The GoI (I can only assume) is pumping some serious cash into the NSG now so let's hope we don't have to see this outdated helmet in service for much longer.

 

[hkdas]

1st SFG(A) Vajra Prahar JCET

1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)

Story by Staff Sgt. Terrance Payton


Sarah Jane Schmidt
Members of 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and Indian Army Special Forces conduct combat water survival training at Soldiers Field House, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Jan. 19, 2016. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Sarah Jane Roberts)

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Green Berets assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), conducted Vajra Prahar training exercise with Indian Special Operation Forces at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Camp Rilea, Ore., Jan. 18-29, 2016.

The two-week exercise, which hasn’t happened at JBLM since 2011, was a bilateral Joint Combined Exchange Training exercise that improves the ability of the forces involved to respond to a wide range of contingencies. The past few years has seen increased cooperation between the two countries military forces with a remarkable expansion of bilateral training exercises.

“I see our military to military partnership as a very important pillar that contributes to the strategic relationship between the two countries,” said Lt. Col. Terry Butcher, commander of 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne). “They [India] are a very important partner, both for the regional security of south Asia and the maritime security. I think that we directly contribute to that by working with their special operation forces.”

The two countries are working together to safeguard maritime security and freedom of navigation as well as strengthening their partnership to combat terrorism and piracy.

“The exercise was strictly maritime focused so everything that we did was in the water,” said 2nd battalion’s operational detachment commander. "We started with an introduction to boat movements and finished with the culminating exercise which was an 8 nautical mile boat movement to a beach landing.”

Along with the boat movements and beach landing the training exercise also included diving, navigation, helo-casting and an airborne operation.

“Working out there with them in the water we get better and they get better,” said Butcher. “We improve upon our individual skills and collective skills as a unit.”

“We trained for this at home, jumping into cold water,” said Maj. Puneet Atwal, commander of the Indian forces. “This is good training. This military to military interaction between the countries will be good for our future.”

Butcher said that the training strengthens the partnership, builds relationships and provides better interoperability.

“If there ever comes a time where we have to work directly hand-in-hand with our Indian partners, understanding the way that they operate on the ground or in the water is going to enable us to work with them using their particular tactics and their methods of operation,” said Butcher. “Just knowing that you have a foreign military unit that you can reach out to, keeps the relationship strong between our units.”

“The greatest benefit for our soldiers is any chance that we get to work along side our allies,” said the operational detachment commander. “It was a good exercise and we got a lot out of it and everyone came away a better-trained soldier.”

The U.S. is committed to broadening ties to Indo-Asia-Pacific partners. As part of the rebalance, the U.S. is strengthening traditional alliances while enhancing forward presence in Southeast Asia, in Oceania and the Indian Ocean.

DVIDS - News - 1st SFG(A) Vajra Prahar JCET

 

[hkdas]

American, Indian Special Forces train together at JBLM
By J.M. Simpson on January 28, 2016

Indian Special Forces soldiers wade ashore after jumping from a helicopter as part of their training. Photo credit: J.M. Simpson


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About 150 meters to the right side of the special action vessel, or SAV, a Chinook helicopter slowly moved forward as it maintained an altitude of about 10 feet off the cold water between Ketron Island and Solo Point.

The sound and fury of the Chinook's powerful, 3,750 horsepower driven tandem sixty-foot rotor blades created a spiraling storm of salty spray.

Into the fury jumped nine 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment Indian Special Forces soldiers in a training event called helocasting. After the last operator entered the water, the Chinook ascended quickly.

Helocasting is an airborne technique used by small units to enter an area of operations. Conducted by helicopter, the aircraft assumes an altitude just above the water at an airspeed of just over one mile per hour as the team members exit and enter the water.

As the sound and fury subsided, American Special Forces soldiers quickly approached in two zodiac boats to pick up the jumpers and brought them to Solo Point.

"We are developing a very good relationship with the American Special Forces," commented Col. Bhaskar Tomar last Friday morning as he observed the training from the SAV.

"We are working together; it is the military-to-military contact that improves this ability to work together."

Last held in 2012, Vajra Prahar is a two-week bilateral exercise between America and India's elite soldiers. Forty-two soldiers from the near Asian country's special forces trained with and learned from a dozen of 1st Group's dive team.

Driven by practicality and politics, the training is based on American and Indian concerns about terrorist or pirate activities off India's coast.

The 1st Special Forces Group works primarily in the Pacific region, and it is not uncommon for members to train annually in about 20 countries. This is why the Group's "First in Asia" motto is relevant. One of its battalions is stationed in Okinawa; the others are based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

"This exchange is taking place at a time when the political relations between the two countries are extremely strong," said Arun Kumar Singh, India's Ambassador to the United States, in an interview earlier in the week.

Last week's jump into the South Puget Sound's briny water underscores the relationship.

"We're training with our Indian partners to build their capacity," commented Lt. Col. Terry Butcher, commander of 1st Group's 2nd Battalion, before the helocasting training began.

Moments later another Chinook rolled into a descent over the water and lined up for another drop of Indian and American special forces soldiers.

"We trained for this at home," mentioned Tomar as the SAV quickly followed the big helicopter and another group of American and Indian soldiers jumped into the water.

"The chance to work here with the American military is good for our future."

Indian Special Forces here - News Front - Northwest Military - Home of The Ranger, NW Airlifter & Weekly Volcano

 

[hkdas]

Pathankot Attack: Commando Who Took 4 Bullets Is Raring To Go Again


AMBALA: Corporal Shailabh Gaur cannot wait to join his unit again. A member of the Indian Air Force's elite commando unit, Garud, he is recovering from surgery because he took four bullets in the abdomen during a gunbattle with terrorists at the Pathankot Air Base on January 2.

Corporal Gaur says Hollywood movies like Commando and Rambo inspired him in school. With three generations of the family in the defence forces, he says, the choice of career was obvious: He joined the Air Force in 2010 and emerged as the best all-rounder during training that landed him in the elite unit. A commando's life is hard but the first real test came four years later.


His unit was flown from Adampur to Pathankot on January 1. The men were split into different groups and tasked with patrolling the air base. "It was around 3.30 am when we were asked to look around the vehicle maintenance area and clear the area," he recounts.

"We spotted a trail which led us inside the area, terrorists hiding there began firing as the platoon took positions," he recalls. In the gun battle, Corporal Gursewak Singh was shot and fell to the ground.

Then, Corporal Gaur felt something piercing his abdomen. He thought it was just a sliver of wood because there was a loud explosion at the same time. "Gursewak was a close friend, we had joined the Air Force together and we were buddies," he says.

The terrorists were firing at the commandoes from their Kalashnikovs. "They used lob grenades while reloading. Mortars were also fired at us. Thankfully, they didn't explode," he says. The commandos, though, could not use heavy weapons for the fear of collateral damage. The terrorists were out to destroy assets and the commandoes' brief was to secure the technical area where fighter jets and radars were.

It was only after the terrorists moved to a different location that Corporal Gaur could attend to his injuries. By then it was nearly 5 am. He had been fighting terrorists for over an hour.

At the Pathankot military hospital, four bullets and splinter pieces were removed from his body. Doctors were surprised that he had survived all that while because there was three litres of blood in the abdominal cavity due to internal bleeding.

But six weeks later, Corporal Gaur has almost recovered. He expects to return to his unit after a fitness test next week.

 

[Bornubus]

 

[Abingdonboy]

SPG:

 

[Unknowncommando]

PARA SF

 

[Abingdonboy]

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PARA SF

Bro, tell me you have a link to the discovery channel episode in full

 

[Unknowncommando]

Bro, tell me you have a link to the discovery channel episode in full

Bro i got these ss from youtube vid. Otherwise i would have posted the link of full vid.

 

[Dandpatta]

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@Abingdonboy @Tshering22
This is where my beef is. I do not doubt the professionalism of our troops but what happened to uniform camouflages? One wearing grey, one green... They look like militias / rebels TBH. It would be easy to pick out any of these by an enemy sniper. Tshering - your opinion please.

 

[Bornubus]

@Abingdonboy @Tshering22
This is where my beef is. I do not doubt the professionalism of our troops but what happened to uniform camouflages? One wearing grey, one green... They look like militias / rebels TBH. It would be easy to pick out any of these by an enemy sniper. Tshering - your opinion please.

This is kashmir and not only that Para operators also wear kashmiri feran and Muslim salwar kameez.

Go back few pages I've posted the pic of Major Sudhir walia.In a field what matters is the result not what they wear,this ain't no fashion show.

 

[Dandpatta]

This is kashmir and not only that Para operators also wear kashmiri feran and Muslim salwar kameez.

Go back few pages I've posted the pic of Major Sudhir walia.In a field what matters is the result not what they wear,this ain't no fashion show.

@Bornubus, did I say this is to be a fashion show? If you read my post carefully, the varying colors of their garments is easy picking for any potential snipe. Hope you get my point.

 

[hkdas]

@Abingdonboy @Tshering22
This is where my beef is. I do not doubt the professionalism of our troops but what happened to uniform camouflages? One wearing grey, one green... They look like militias / rebels TBH. It would be easy to pick out any of these by an enemy sniper. Tshering - your opinion please.

there are good possibility that those are SOG of J&K police. even if they are para sf, then what the problem? it is better to use some civilian clothing than wearing uniform and "special forces" tab.

even RR use mix of civilian dress and combat uniform.

^^ marcos in J&K. you can see their combat uniform under that Phiran

@Bornubus, did I say this is to be a fashion show? If you read my post carefully, the varying colors of their garments is easy picking for any potential snipe. Hope you get my point.

that are using civilian dress... how could a sniper know that the man in green,blue or any other colored dress is an army man?? in the mean time a sniper can identify soldiers in army fatigues much easy,