Indian Special Forces

[Abingdonboy]

@COLDHEARTED AVIATOR @Abingdonboy,



guys in this news dated on jan 2014 says about the upcoming joint training exercise with army. in this
.Vajra Prahar with USA (Feb-Marc 14) Shatrujeet with USA (Oct 13) are joint Special forces training exercise.. any info on these exercise?? is it done or postponed or cancelled??

The joint SF exercise Vajra Prahar used to be covered quite extensively both by the Indian media and US public affairs agency up until 2011. The 2012,2013 and now 2014 have been completely unreported and not a single piece of evidence exists in the public domain that they even happened (though we know they did) so God only knows why all of a sudden both sides are silent on this series of exercises and what they are doing now every year....

 

[hkdas]

The joint SF exercise Vajra Prahar used to be covered quite extensively both by the Indian media and US public affairs agency up until 2011. The 2012,2013 and now 2014 have been completely unreported and not a single piece of evidence exists in the public domain that they even happened (though we know they did) so God only knows why all of a sudden both sides are silent on this series of exercises and what they are doing now every year....

are you sure? US army generally uploads videos of their joint exercises with other countries, till now no news or videos from them. and no indian media or US army press release had ever report about vajra prahar 2013 and vajra prahar 2014(may be yet to conduct) and is it that much important to kept a joint exercise secret??

 

[hkdas]

marcos in kashmir flood rescue:
Water Everywhere in Flooded Srinagar. But Very Little to Drink

 

[Abingdonboy]

are you sure? US army generally uploads videos of their joint exercises with other countries, till now no news or videos from them. and no indian media or US army press release had ever report about vajra prahar 2013 and vajra prahar 2014(may be yet to conduct) and is it that much important to kept a joint exercise secret??

That's what I'm saying- both sides have been suspiciously quite about the 2012,2013 and 2014 Vajra Prahar series.


And yes, it is a FACT that the exercises took place.

marcos in kashmir flood rescue:
Water Everywhere in Flooded Srinagar. But Very Little to Drink

Most of the guys shown are not MARCOs but IN divers.

 

[hkdas]

And yes, it is a FACT that the exercises took place.

bro, how do you know that?? do you have any contacts in army SF?

Most of the guys shown are not MARCOs but IN divers.

in fact none of them looks like marcos to me... one wearing T-shirt have a frogman insignia. but looks too old for being a marcos. almost 99% of marcos take voluntary retirement before an age of 45. those serving after that age is high ranking officers. others have a marcos insignia on the cap and "navy diver" written on the back of the jacket!! and marcos never show their face to the media(it is part of their operational procedure in kashmir)

 

[Abingdonboy]

in fact none of them looks like marcos to me... one wearing T-shirt have a frogman insignia. but looks too old for being a marcos. almost 99% of marcos take voluntary retirement before an age of 45. those serving after that age is high ranking officers. others have a marcos insignia on the cap and "navy diver" written on the back of the jacket!! and marcos never show their face to the media(it is part of their operational procedure in kashmir)

Indeed, I couldn't see any MARCOs insignia or anything to indicate any of them were MARCOs but the report said "commandos" so I assumes at least 1-2 of them must be but it doesn't look to be the case.

 

[hkdas]

Indeed, I couldn't see any MARCOs insignia or anything to indicate any of them were MARCOs but the report said "commandos" so I assumes at least 1-2 of them must be but it doesn't look to be the case.

marcos marcos insignia

@Abingdonboy are you sure that the vajra prahar is still conducted(after 2012)??

 

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[hkdas]

Naval Marine Commandos evacuate stranded people from Bemina in Srinagar to safer places in J&K.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Indeed, I couldn't see any MARCOs insignia or anything to indicate any of them were MARCOs but the report said "commandos" so I assumes at least 1-2 of them must be but it doesn't look to be the case.

Dude apart from you no one says that they are not Marcos...Infact the reporters travelling with them also call them Marcos.

I have tried to explain this to you several times..but you are stubborn.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Dude apart from you no one says that they are not Marcos...Infact the reporters travelling with them also call them Marcos.

I have tried to explain this to you several times..but you are stubborn.

Bro It's common sense!

I'll concede that this guy is MARCOs (look at his cap):

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MARCOs insignia:

Naval Marine Commandos evacuate stranded people from Bemina in Srinagar to safer places in J&K.
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But these guys are all IN Divers (it says as much on their jackets) and the insignia they have is the Combat Divers badge:

Don't take my word for it just read what they have under the badge ("NAVY DIVER"):

The majority of those shown in Kashmir so far have been IN Divers and not MARCOs bro.


We've seen PARA (SF) with the Combat Diver's badge, does that make them MARCOs?

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Bro It's common sense!

I'll concede that this guy is MARCOs (look at his cap):



MARCOs insignia:


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But these guys are all IN Divers (it says as much on their jackets) and the insignia they have is the Combat Divers badge:

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Don't take my word for it just read what they have under the badge ("NAVY DIVER"):

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The majority of those shown in Kashmir so far have been IN Divers and not MARCOs bro.


We've seen PARA (SF) with the Combat Diver's badge, does that make them MARCOs?

Either you or right or the reporters who are on the same boat as that of them are wrong.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Either you or right or the reporters who are on the same boat as that of them are wrong.

As I said one of the (maybe two) guys on the boat are MARCOs but the rest are Combat Divers. It's no surprise the Indian media are sensationalising the news and missing details.

Perhaps the MARCOs are providing extra manpower in this situation/providing security? I don't know why they are operating in mixed units like this.

 

[Abingdonboy]

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IA JK FLOOD RELIEF OPs

Bro there is an Indian Military picture thread. Keep this thread purely for SF/special units.

 

[hkdas]

JKFloods: Naval teams in the Valley(some are marcos)