Which Special Operations Force is the Best?

[LCJr.]

No joke about the US Special Forces hating being called Green Berets. They all hate that damn John Wayne movie with a passion for the image it created. Well at least the old timers.

I have a friend that joined 5th Special Forces when they were formed and he was utterly pissed off by what they had become by the time he retired. The original mission of the Special Forces was to train the indigenous people to fight so US troops wouldn't have to get involved not be a commando unit like the Seals or Delta.

My vote for best special unit would go to the ones we've probably never heard of or never will.

 

[})FA|Snake]

I'm a world war 2 freak so i have to go with the SAS

 

[Kuroshio Apocal]

Originally posted by LCJr.
The original mission of the Special Forces was to train the indigenous people to fight so US troops wouldn't have to get involved not be a commando unit like the Seals or Delta.

Right. Their original mission was conducting unconventional warfare in Soviet-controlled Central and Eastern Europe, not at all unlike the operations the OSS did during WW2 in occupied France. It was originally Kennedy who decided the Special Forces would also become a counter-guerrilla force (along with the UDTs, who then became SEALs). Then the media stepped in, distorted and mangled the original vision of a few hardcore warriors, given linguistic and cultrual training, and the ability to train 10, to train 100, to train 1,000 in resistance and guerilla warfare. Now you get the big-name movies, showing them as Rambos, able to live off of rice and stinking communist corpses for indefinite periods of time, super-soldiers of the US.

 

[DarkBls]

Although France fought like a girl during World Wars Une and Deux

Give me this guy addresses ! I will feed him up with his history book.
I've too many example of french heroism in War to write them down here.

The greatest impetus in forming one of the world’s premier counterterrorist units

Only 9 death since the beginning. (7 in training...)

Before a frog can join the ranks of the GIGN...

I really need this guy location !

a basic qualification course

He really should learn before writting. I know 90% of the test course and believe me only a few guys can succeed them !

The GIGN spends the next 10 months learning parachuting, high–speed driving, hand–to–hand combat,

Yes hand 2 hand combat with my beloved martial art teacher. I will spent a week with him in august for a 8 hours a day training

each new member is shot with a .357 Magnum while wearing body armor so he’ll get used to the shock of being shot in the field

WRONG! Everyone do that once a week with their binomial teammate.

I stop here I will kill this guy just with my mind..
An old unofficial page to know more : http://www.gign-fr.com/

 

[Uppity]

SAS - but that's just because I'm a Brit.

But if given the choice I'd have voted SBS. I once knew a guy who used to be in the SBS and he told me how he spent a week down a covered (and hidden) fox-hole within sight of an enemy base - and how the enemy sentries often passed within 10 feet of him And then how he knifed a sentry from behind as he was about to descover one of his friends hiding places.

(fyi, the SBS - or Special Boat Squadron are a seperate unit to the SAS which specialises in naval based stealth missions. They are more stealth-based than the SAS and as such oftne participate in intelligence missions)

 

[DarkBls]

But there are so many special forces team in each army...
For example I like the Commando Hubert or the 13eme RDP