Members of the Afghan army's special-operations forces are among the many Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover. Those forces are highly trained and well regarded, and the UK is considering ...
As part of the pre-validation drills, called Exercise Baltic Dawn, 42 and 47 Commando (a “commando” is a battalion-sized unit ...
United Kingdom army commandos take an icy dip as they prepare for combat in the Arctic. The plucky troops were pictured this ...
A new Royal Marine Commando unit is being created as part of the UK’s Future Commando Force, the Royal Navy (RN) announced in a press release on 20 July. The new Vanguard Strike Company will be made ...
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For Ghulam, it began with a form handed to him by a colleague, offering him a way out. For more than 12 years, he had been part of an elite troop of Afghan special forces set up, trained and paid by ...
The former Afghan commandos were referred to as the “Triples”, due to their unit designations as CF 333 and ATF 444. The units were established, trained, and paid for by UK Special Forces (UKSF) to ...