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matiK23
Profile Joined May 2011
United States963 Posts
November 27 2011 23:28 GMT
#261
Team EG
Without a paddle up shit creek.
Taekwon
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8155 Posts
November 27 2011 23:29 GMT
#262
On November 27 2011 17:50 Assault_1 wrote:
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On November 27 2011 17:32 jinorazi wrote:
i hear north korea has the largest "special forces" army

ya and probably have the most joke standards for "special forces"

I'm pretty sure all the mainstream spec forces are around equal, there aren't any that stand out much from the rest


You haven't seen Kim Jong Il's?

smh...
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Sipher
Profile Joined January 2011
United States333 Posts
November 28 2011 03:24 GMT
#263
There are two books I have read that come to mind when talking about this topic. This first is Lone Survivor and the other is Bravo Two Zero. They are both great reads (and most likely somewhat exaggerated), however it shows the mentality and toughness of the SF's out there. Also, the first half of Lone Survivor is about the narrator's own story and how he trained to become a SEAL, and it also covers a bit of the training that SEALs go through (if I recall correctly he describes Hell Week and BUD/S). Bravo Two Zero describes an SAS mission gone wrong as well.

As I said, both are very interesting reads, and I highly recommend them!

Oh, and if it wasn't obvious enough, I would say SAS and SEALs are my choices, but there are many others that deserve to be mentioned, and have been mentioned already. Although I do want to bring up US Air Force's Parajumpers. Those men are amazing at what they do.
blinken
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada368 Posts
November 28 2011 03:32 GMT
#264
On November 28 2011 04:22 Skullflower wrote:
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On November 28 2011 03:29 blinken wrote:
On November 28 2011 02:27 Cush wrote:
On November 28 2011 02:13 Lumin wrote:
1. SAS
2. Navy Seals

No one else in the world comes close.

Are you kidding me?

Israeli Commandos by far destroys everyone here, not even close.


This makes me laugh. Pick the country with the least combat experience.


Do you know anything about Israel?


I stand by my quote.
pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
November 28 2011 03:37 GMT
#265
Probably some american branch just because they get so much funding and new technology.
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Caladbolg
Profile Joined March 2011
2855 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-28 03:48:30
November 28 2011 03:41 GMT
#266
Most elite?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Division

CIA SOG/SAD. Many of them are former Special Forces members who were chosen due to their exemplary performance/intelligence in the field.

EDIT: Additionally, they were involved in every major conflict since the world wars. Pretty amazing experience.
"I don't like the word prodigy at all. To me prodigy sounds like a person who was 'gifted' all these things rather than a person who earned all these talents by hard training... I must train harder to reach my goal." - Flash
discodancer
Profile Joined September 2011
United States280 Posts
November 28 2011 03:44 GMT
#267
I don't know where these myths about 'mossad' came from, always makes me smile.
1Eris1
Profile Joined September 2010
United States5797 Posts
November 28 2011 03:45 GMT
#268
It's a group we don't even know about. Or if it is SEAL/SAS/etc then we really don't know the full scope or all of the details of these organizations. No government is going to be stupid enough to release their best spec. ops info to the public, that would just be stupid.
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BeJe77
Profile Joined April 2006
United States377 Posts
November 28 2011 03:58 GMT
#269
Best special forces unit? Hard to tell.

The best one is probably the one you don't hear any news about
Happylime
Profile Joined August 2011
United States133 Posts
November 28 2011 04:03 GMT
#270
Do...terrorists have special forces units?

If so who?
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
November 28 2011 07:08 GMT
#271
On November 28 2011 13:03 Happylime wrote:
Do...terrorists have special forces units?

If so who?


If we knew, they wouldn't be that Special? But i'm pretty sure they do have some "elite" soldiers in their ranks doing some special job for them.

No sources or anything, feel free to share if there is some info out there.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
matiK23
Profile Joined May 2011
United States963 Posts
November 28 2011 07:17 GMT
#272
On November 28 2011 13:03 Happylime wrote:
Do...terrorists have special forces units?

If so who?


The Hezbollah. They guarantee 72 dripping wet virgins in the afterlife. Will make any average man turn into a superman.
Without a paddle up shit creek.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
November 28 2011 07:21 GMT
#273
I would say it is likely the American Forces like Delta/SEALS or the SAS. Because,

1. Better technology than most other countries, this is a smaller advantage than we would like to think.
and
2. Recent combat experience. Iraq, Afghanistan, and the IRA have served to keep these forces sharp. While the German KSK, and other first world special forces are well trained, nothing can stand up to the hundreds of hours of combat experience that our special forces have.
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InRaged
Profile Joined February 2007
1047 Posts
November 28 2011 08:08 GMT
#274
cLutZ, Spetsnaz GRU fought in Afghanistan, First and Second Chechen war and also participated in 2008 Russo-Georgian war so they definitely have as much of real combat experience.
CreatorOfAll
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada14 Posts
November 28 2011 08:11 GMT
#275
Yeah I'm gonna have to go with something we never have and never will hear about.
canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
November 28 2011 08:15 GMT
#276
On November 28 2011 17:11 CreatorOfAll wrote:
Yeah I'm gonna have to go with something we never have and never will hear about.

The stonemanson?
xdthreat
Profile Joined March 2011
United States95 Posts
November 28 2011 08:27 GMT
#277
On November 28 2011 12:45 1Eris1 wrote:
It's a group we don't even know about. Or if it is SEAL/SAS/etc then we really don't know the full scope or all of the details of these organizations. No government is going to be stupid enough to release their best spec. ops info to the public, that would just be stupid.


this sums up my thoughts about present day. I'm thinking maybe ww2 era US marine corp engineers in the pacific for recent history.
Hopelessly addicted to stratgey games since commodore 64
Acnologia
Profile Joined June 2011
Australia410 Posts
November 28 2011 08:30 GMT
#278
On November 28 2011 12:58 BeJe77 wrote:
Best special forces unit? Hard to tell.

The best one is probably the one you don't hear any news about


yeah, like Division in Nikita
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Plague1503
Profile Joined October 2010
Croatia466 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-28 08:48:10
November 28 2011 08:46 GMT
#279
Jack Bauer. /thread

no, srsly, I believe that Spetznatz takes the cake.
Excerpts from a book written by a Spetznatz defector:

Let us not be too
strict in our judgement of the spetsnaz soldiers for their cruel ways, their
bloodthirstiness and their lack of humanity. Spetsnaz is a closed society of
people living permanently at the extreme limits of human existence. They are
people who even in peacetime are risking their lives. Their existence bears
no relation at all to the way the majority of the inhabitants of our planet
live. In spetsnaz a man can be admired for qualities of which the average
man may have no idea.


Your average training exercise:

Now they come to a dark cellar, with the doors ripped
off the hinges. Everybody down. Along the corridor. Then there's water
ahead. The whole group running at full tilt without slowing down rushes
straight into some sticky liquid. A blinding light flashes on. It's not
water they are in -- it's blood. Blood up to the knees, the waist, the
chest. On the walls and the ceiling are chunks of rotten flesh, piles of
bleeding entrails. The steps are slippery from slimy bits of brain.
Undecided, the young soldiers jam the corridor. Then somebody in the
darkness lets a huge dog off its chain. There is only one way out -- through
the blood. Only forwards, where there is a wide passageway and a staircase
upwards.


Why? That's just how they roll.

http://www.kampfkunst-board.info/forum/f65/spetsnaz-the-inside-story-of-the-soviet-special-forces-21169/

http://www.amazon.com/Spetsnaz-Inside-Soviet-Special-Forces/dp/0393026140
"Good luck." "I don't need luck. I have ammo."
On_Slaught
Profile Joined August 2008
United States12190 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-28 09:06:38
November 28 2011 08:56 GMT
#280
Among just the US forces, the US Air Force Pararescue and Delta Force are above SEALs. SEALs just get more press.

I have to agree that in reality, the scariest grp of killers on the planet is almost certainly the CIA kill squad which takes the best from the different special ops grps. I'd put that first if only because of 1. funding and 2. the fact the CIA is fucking everywhere and involved in everything.
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