rdx-fx wrote:
Longbow wrote:
I think all 1st world countries have the same SF as US do , maybe they don't have such sums of money but I truly believe that US SF isn't that unique .
Many countries have "SF" that's equivalent to our Rangers or Marines.
Not many have an equivalent to our SF. (and, by SF, I mean 'green berets')
S/O421 wrote:
Yeah! Didn't they train and arm the Iraqi's back in the 80's against, who was it...
Oh, grow up and get over yourself.
You're grasping at straws in your attempt at bashing the US.
S/O421 wrote:
rdx-fx wrote:
"Fairly unique in the history of warfare, to have a branch dedicated to training the locals how to fight their own wars in so many different ways"
That ain't unique, most all of the great armies of old trained some of the natives, and like the US, it was so they could fight against a common enemy
The concept of training the natives isn't unique.
Having a branch of the Army that's
primary mission is training natives
and forward recon
and diplomacy... that's unique
PHILIPS wrote:
ROFL
American Special Forces are some of the worst in the world, the reason why Americans think they are so good,
is because of all the propaganda around them and shit, Navy Seals and Delta Force aint worth jackshit!
Well they are a little better than the Marines but the USMC is a joke aswell.'
The best soldiers today is
1. The SAS
2. Israelian Paratroopers
3. The Hunters Corps (Jægerkorpset)
"Worst in the world"?
LMAO..
Yeah, our Green Berets are the worst in the world.. that's why
they pretty much won Afghanistan, where the Russians failed for 10 years.
SAS - Amount/time of training is somewhere on par with the US Rangers. Though, their counter-terrorism expertise, and just general high-speed competence makes them truly world class. They'd be in my "Top 5" list of SF groups, for certain.
I'd personally rank them amongst the top-tier Special Operations groups (SEALS, Special Forces, SAS, etc).
But, really.. a "1 week, 40 mile march/land nav exercise with 55 pound rucksack in tactical conditions" as the final exam? meh.. I've done that
for fun in the conventional US Army.
Israeli Paratroopers - Great, some high-speed Airborne troops.. so?
Jægerkorpset - The who? Seriously, from what I can find, their training is about as long as the (pre)Ranger Indoctrination Program in the US. ..and, there's only 146 of them?
Majority of US "green berets" are also Rangers and Airborne.
so, a bare minimum of 70 solid weeks of intense training to get a regular army soldier the SF qualification (not including the up-to-60 week foreign language course )
Plus, 9 weeks of Ranger school.. plus, all the 'fun schools' like sniper, HALO, pathfinder, jumpmaster, etc, etc.. and, after about 3+ years of
continuous cram-for-all-you're-worth no-sleep live-in-the-dirt schools - you're now a
newbie junior SF soldier.
Summary: US SF (green beret) does anything that almost any other special operations force does - and then also knows how to do the work of 5 other spec ops forces.