Indian Special Forces (archived)

[12arya]

Col.Yadav(L)& Col.Sandhu(R) with their respective Subedar Major saabs' after receiving Unit Citations from the COAS.

isn't that a diver medal on Col. Yadav's SM saab's chest?

 

[binayak95]

Col.Yadav(L)& Col.Sandhu(R) with their respective Subedar Major saabs' after receiving Unit Citations from the COAS.

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isn't that a diver medal on Col. Yadav's SM saab's chest?

It indeed is a combat divers badge. Interesting

 

[Jay99]

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...dos-mossad-training-israel-1251738-2018-06-06

Commandos who conducted Operation Blue Star were trained by Mossad in Israel

HIGHLIGHTS

• Commandos chosen for Operation Blue Star were trained in Israel
• Anti-terror training was a special arrangement between RAW and Mossad
• Special Group commandos trained to march at 40 kmph speed

Special Group commandos had their base at Sarsawa in Uttar Pradesh. (File photo: India Today)

June 6 is the anniversary of Operation Blue Star that was conducted in 1984 to flush out Khalistani terrorists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar. They were led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who had considerable following among Khalistani separatists during the 1980s.

Bhindranwale, the 37-year-old extremist religious preacher, had occupied the Golden Temple in 1981 along with his band of armed men, many of whom were drawn from army and police forces. By 1984, Bhindranwale's radical group had committed targeted killings and led terror attacks causing deaths of over 100 security personnel and civilians, many of them eminent persons.


In 1984, Punjab was under President's Rule in the wake of Khalistan terrorism. Bhindranwale had declared a war on the state and had fallen out of favour of the Congress party that ruled at the Centre.

Indira Gandhi, the then prime minister, went for a decisive action against Bhindranwale. The army was roped in and 20 commandos of the special group entered the Golden Temple at night to free the shrine from armed Khalistani terrorists. This was Operation Blue Star.

Special Group Commandos

The commandos who entered the Golden Temple on June 6, 1984 were part of Special Group of the 56th Commando Company of the Indian Army. They were the only unit of the Indian forces to have received specialised training to fight terrorists having taken control of a sensitive public place and deal with hostage-like situation.

The Special Group or SG commandos, as they were called those days, had been trained by an expert team of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organisation. The SG had been created in 1981 for special operations. The Israeli trainers were Mossad commandos who had conducted a one-of-its-kind operation to rescue hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport in 1977.

India did not have diplomatic ties with Israel at that time and the training had been coordinated by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) which had its own arrangement with Mossad. The training was provided to Indian SG commandos at the secret base of Sayeret Matkal.

Training By Mossad

The Indian commandos underwent special anti-terror training for over three weeks in 1983 in the recreated landscapes having busy streets, maze of buildings and vehicles. This training came useful when the special commandos entered the Golden Temple at 10.30 pm on June 6, 34 years ago.

The commandos were in black fatigues and wore night-vision glasses, M-1 steel helmets, bulletproof jackets, and carried sophisticated guns including AK-47 assault rifles. The commandos were capable of jogging at a speed of 40 km per hour.

Operation Blue Star

The Indian Army, it appears, had underestimated the strength of the armed men of Bhindranwale. They were led by a disgraced Indian Army Major General Shabeg Singh, who had been awarded Ati Vishist Seva Medal for providing training to the forces of Mukti Bahini of Bangladesh. He was later dismissed from services on various charges including corruption.

The SG commandos faced tough resistance and were met with unexpected firepower from those hiding inside the Golden Temple. Additional unit of the army was also pressed into action at the Golden Temple against the fighters of Bhindranwale. The shrine was freed from Khalistani terrorists by the next morning.

The SG unit was later pressed into service following the assassination of Indira Gandhi in October, 1984. They had been called for protection of Rajiv Gandhi and his family. The SG later was replaced by the Special Protection Group (SPG) that was raised in 1985 for the security of VIPs.

 

[sthf]

Special Group commandos trained to march at 40 kmph

TIL SG operatives can outrun Usain Bolt.

Akhand Chutiyapa hai BC. Koi bhi aandu gaandu "defence journalist" ban jata hai.

 

[Darth Malgus]

• Special Group commandos trained to march at 40 kmph speed

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lol.....how the fuck do you March at 40kmph ???

 

[rkhanna]

Sad thing about the origins of SG - right after formation and when unit cohesion was established it was ripped apart to form NSG.

PS - i like how the "Israeli Connection" is being tom tawed when it was for only 3 weeks.

 

[Tanmay]

Well when I read Lt.Gen. Kuldin Singh Brar's book he said there was never such a replica model created for practise purpose. Troops had just enough time to get accustomed to gas masks.

 

[aditya10r]

TIL SG operatives can outrun Usain Bolt.

Akhand Chutiyapa hai BC. Koi bhi aandu gaandu "defence journalist" ban jata hai.

Bhencho,tab toh SG specialists should run for India during Olympics and do shooting as well.

 

[ALBY]

lol.....how the fuck do you March at 40kmph ???

Lol..I remember reading about a story about SFF men where one SFF guy is reportedly lifting a huge rock which otherwise can't be lifted by even 6 men together.
Also the TEDx speech by Major Surendra Pooniya too seemed to be bit exaggerating.

 

[Suryavanshi]

Do you guys think there will be a time when artificially enhanced humans will be the face of future special forces.

 

[Unknowncommando 2]

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[Unknowncommando 2]

NSG Commandos ............

 

[Unknowncommando 2]

beautiful........................

 

[Unknowncommando 2]

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[Unknowncommando 2]

23 PARA Airborne Battalion

 

[Unknowncommando 2]

PARA COMMANDOS ..............

 

[Unknowncommando 2]

9 PARA Special Forces ............

 

[Unknowncommando 2]

PARA SF Sniper...................

 

[Darth Malgus]

https://www.quora.com/What-is-so-special-about-the-Para-SF-of-the-Indian-Army


[This text is excerpted from a copyrighted source, now under publishing.]

Afghanistan, 2004, Regestaan Desert. 4th Company for the Afghan Northern Alliance. The specific roles and posts of my unit are albeit not classified, I have chosen to keep them out of this.

The flesh trade was just picking up on the Durand Line. Slavers and traffickers, sometimes also dressed up as NGOs and social workers; were abducting and selling children from 5–15 years old, luring young girls across the borders into Uzbekistan, Pakistan, the NWFP… such that to save their daughters families would dress them as boys, draw little mustaches and beards on them, or stick some real hair on their faces with gum, etc.

Also, the Taliban, having fallen from CIA’s grace, paid for weapons in this way sometimes, giving these children and women to foreign military officers for ammunition, guns, transport and information.

There was a market, a bazaar where in a district for whoring and gambling and fighting pits and stuff, where parents of abducted children, or police would first look. They then would go to the Taliban, who, in exchange demanded money, or services.

That’s why you didn’t act wildly and shoot or maim a normal looking family guy gone suddenly insane and carrying guns or bombs where he should be looking for his baby. It was an unwritten rule to try and use minimal force with these people acting only to save their child.

I did visit the fights and the flea markets, but never went to the ‘harems’, where you could see little, innocent babies with soorma and lipstick ready to service the gigantic filthy mongoloids who came there.

The Alliance had won every battle, and was only being hurt by the proxies, the families of poor householders, forced to render service to Talibaners, for the safe return of their children. You could see them fighting like zombies, eyes blank, no emotional investment in the fight, guns hung loosely from soft limbs not meant for war but trembling to hold their babes once more.

The passionless Alla-hoo-Akbars they shouted were more like indictments against the very God who gave them the doomed children. My heart went out to them, even as I had to shoot them one by one. I slew 4 men, only working hard to get their daughters/sisters back.

Do you know what this is like? I often ask couch-warmongers, and idiots who are fascinated with the workings of a special force. A special force is something sent to resolve situations that cannot be disclosed to the world. We are trained in speed. In finality. In precision. Only to obliterate the offending part of humanity, and every evidence of it ever having been. So the rest of mankind gets to live in it’s fool’s paradise of “democracy, socialism, what-the-fµck-ever”. I digress.

We found that three of our own were not only partaking of the trivially worded, proverbial “बहती गंगा..” ( their words, not mine ), but also compromised in terms of info, and that it had reached Command. A tall, dark chap from Bengal or Assam, and two from Rajasthan. Their names were one step shy from being released to public, as at the same time CNN was doing a story on this evil trade.

Our Command (which was in the hands of a true patriot and Son of India) felt that it was time to affect change, in the ranks, in morale, in standards of the Indian Army. We had a choice of shipping them home to court martial them, but our group commander (OSIC) was a man of real steel .

It was time to set precedent.

I shot two of them myself, one was taken by his own acquaintance. We could not allow the Army’s name to be sullied by the procedures that would rake up this filth. And with CNN’s expose already in play, we would really suffer more than we deserved, all because of three sons of bitches. After their bodies were ‘discovered’, carried back and shipped home as ‘casualties’, there was a new found respect, an awe, of the Indian Para contingent, among the Brits, the US special operators, the Turks, mercs, everyone.

I have shared this, not to indulge your appetites for fantabulous military glory, or steal valor from my comrades in the alliance actions. We all know, how it all went to shit later, anyway. Ask most police, paramilitary, peacekeeper army… to take a stand like that, and they get shaky feet.

Hundreds of thousands line up for selection into India’s Armed Forces every year. In the other countries, you have to chase young men to recruit and those who get away are called ‘dodgers’. But in India, you have got to cut it, mate. Of the few hundreds who can cut it, the SF commando are selected in not tens, but ones. That is what makes them “Men Apart, Every Man An Emperor”.
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This was a bit difficult to read ...........

 

[Arihant Roy]

https://www.quora.com/What-is-so-special-about-the-Para-SF-of-the-Indian-Army


[This text is excerpted from a copyrighted source, now under publishing.]

Afghanistan, 2004, Regestaan Desert. 4th Company for the Afghan Northern Alliance. The specific roles and posts of my unit are albeit not classified, I have chosen to keep them out of this.

The flesh trade was just picking up on the Durand Line. Slavers and traffickers, sometimes also dressed up as NGOs and social workers; were abducting and selling children from 5–15 years old, luring young girls across the borders into Uzbekistan, Pakistan, the NWFP… such that to save their daughters families would dress them as boys, draw little mustaches and beards on them, or stick some real hair on their faces with gum, etc.

Also, the Taliban, having fallen from CIA’s grace, paid for weapons in this way sometimes, giving these children and women to foreign military officers for ammunition, guns, transport and information.

There was a market, a bazaar where in a district for whoring and gambling and fighting pits and stuff, where parents of abducted children, or police would first look. They then would go to the Taliban, who, in exchange demanded money, or services.

That’s why you didn’t act wildly and shoot or maim a normal looking family guy gone suddenly insane and carrying guns or bombs where he should be looking for his baby. It was an unwritten rule to try and use minimal force with these people acting only to save their child.

I did visit the fights and the flea markets, but never went to the ‘harems’, where you could see little, innocent babies with soorma and lipstick ready to service the gigantic filthy mongoloids who came there.

The Alliance had won every battle, and was only being hurt by the proxies, the families of poor householders, forced to render service to Talibaners, for the safe return of their children. You could see them fighting like zombies, eyes blank, no emotional investment in the fight, guns hung loosely from soft limbs not meant for war but trembling to hold their babes once more.

The passionless Alla-hoo-Akbars they shouted were more like indictments against the very God who gave them the doomed children. My heart went out to them, even as I had to shoot them one by one. I slew 4 men, only working hard to get their daughters/sisters back.

Do you know what this is like? I often ask couch-warmongers, and idiots who are fascinated with the workings of a special force. A special force is something sent to resolve situations that cannot be disclosed to the world. We are trained in speed. In finality. In precision. Only to obliterate the offending part of humanity, and every evidence of it ever having been. So the rest of mankind gets to live in it’s fool’s paradise of “democracy, socialism, what-the-fµck-ever”. I digress.

We found that three of our own were not only partaking of the trivially worded, proverbial “बहती गंगा..” ( their words, not mine ), but also compromised in terms of info, and that it had reached Command. A tall, dark chap from Bengal or Assam, and two from Rajasthan. Their names were one step shy from being released to public, as at the same time CNN was doing a story on this evil trade.

Our Command (which was in the hands of a true patriot and Son of India) felt that it was time to affect change, in the ranks, in morale, in standards of the Indian Army. We had a choice of shipping them home to court martial them, but our group commander (OSIC) was a man of real steel .

It was time to set precedent.

I shot two of them myself, one was taken by his own acquaintance. We could not allow the Army’s name to be sullied by the procedures that would rake up this filth. And with CNN’s expose already in play, we would really suffer more than we deserved, all because of three sons of bitches. After their bodies were ‘discovered’, carried back and shipped home as ‘casualties’, there was a new found respect, an awe, of the Indian Para contingent, among the Brits, the US special operators, the Turks, mercs, everyone.

I have shared this, not to indulge your appetites for fantabulous military glory, or steal valor from my comrades in the alliance actions. We all know, how it all went to shit later, anyway. Ask most police, paramilitary, peacekeeper army… to take a stand like that, and they get shaky feet.

Hundreds of thousands line up for selection into India’s Armed Forces every year. In the other countries, you have to chase young men to recruit and those who get away are called ‘dodgers’. But in India, you have got to cut it, mate. Of the few hundreds who can cut it, the SF commando are selected in not tens, but ones. That is what makes them “Men Apart, Every Man An Emperor”.
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This was a bit difficult to read ...........

This excerpted part is from which book? I would like to buy it.

Our Paras are deployed in Afg even today.

And Maj Rohit Suri has been promoted to Lt Col.