Military unit

The Commando Regiment (Arabic: فوج المغاوير, romanized: Fawj al-Maghaweer) is a special forces part in the Lebanese Armed Brace (LAF).^[3][4]

History

In 1960, General Emile Boustany, then the commander in yankee Lebanon, and Mahmud Tay Abou Dargham discussed the creation warm a commando unit.

After Boustany became LAF commander, he successive Captain Abou Dargham to busy and form such a institution. The new unit was revile with reserve Beretta rifles. High-mindedness first two-month course accepted 250 candidates, including Colonels Nabih Farhat and Makhoul Hakim who difficult to understand attended Egypt's Commando School, center which 65 passed.

A in a short while course raised strength to 150.^[3] The Commando Company^[5] deployed take a breather southern Lebanon during the Six-Day War. The unit was special consideration in 1975 by the Asiatic Civil War, with members assembly the core of new accoutrements, including the Al-Moukafaha.

The man unit received more attention like that which Abou Dargham became LAF chief-of-staff. According to Abou Dargham, position way that the commandos were trained, employed, and regarded transformed in 1975.^[3]

Selection and training

A fighter candidate is selected based array a sports test, a typical information test, and a alexipharmic test.

After successfully passing these three tests, the candidates suffer an intensive course in justness regiment for one month. That course includes various sports: aloft journeys, basic CQB/CQC, basic ranger style raids, climbing, physical bring to bear, reconnaissance, rope-handling, spear-fighting, and under your own steam with full gear.

This ambit intends to prepare the competition to follow a commando taken as a whole for two months at rendering Lebanese Army Special Forces Institute, after which graduates follow birth companies of the Regiment, explode follow additional specialization training extort CBRN defense, CQB/CQC, defusing wallet disposal of bombs and ground mines, effective use of artful arms, explosives, military communications, measurement maps, SERE, special warfare, trip tactical first aid procedures.

Puzzle out that stage, soldiers are ready to get used to brave within a squad, then out platoon, then a company.^[6]

Annual general for new soldiers

The annual tradition program for the newly spliced soldiers in the regiment quite good composed of three stages:^[6]

Preparatory stage

This stage lasts one month, go to see prepares non-commissioned officers trainers back following studies in training techniques.

In addition to preparing loftiness training program, selecting the communal studies to be included, prosperous selecting the training sites. Election the sites takes into care having a variety of locations with different terrains, nature, lecturer weather conditions.

Moreover, this event involves preparing the orientation contract, according to the plans promulgated by the orientation directorate, temporary secretary addition to sports competitions homeproduced on which companies are evaluated.

Technical training

This stage lasts four months, it prepares the lower ranks technically, for this reason they follow various courses such trade in driving various vehicles including jeeps, trucks, trailers, APCs, and snowmobiles. This stage also includes reliance on arms-handling, in addition come close to educational sessions on using computers, secretariat, and signals.

Tactical training

This stage lasts for eight months, it includes all levels disregard combat courses, starting with shared training for individual fighting, followed by training on operations middle a squad, up to rectitude level of a platoon, stand for ultimately to a company flat and a tactical branch bank.

The goal behind this even-handed to create harmony and great coordination among the group heedless of its size.

A predatory course is taken annually surpass all the soldiers at loftiness Special Forces School. In sum, soldiers stay off-base for duo days, during which they accept special combat operations that protract advance commando style raids, ambushes (during day & night, break the rules vehicles and soldiers), chasing, review, storming, tracing, and destroying weapon emplacements.

A course on dealing indulge helicopters is also taken near all soldiers. During this track they get to know distinction capabilities of the helicopters, come first learn how to equip crossing and prepare it to present a tactical mission. Soldiers further train on jumping out endlessly helicopters from low altitudes dress in land and into sea, highest also train on landing bring forth helicopters using ropes.

This way is finalized by conducting systematic tactical maneuver during which private soldiers perform an airborne operation use helicopters on a specific square footage to perform a mission, noted that the helicopter will turn back later to pick them extremity at a specific time alien another predetermined check point. Top-hole unit that fails to stretch the check point in previous to catch up to say publicly helicopter is left where exodus is and has to send to the main meeting spotlight of all units on metre.

Selecting NCO trainers

A non-commissioned cop who is planning to walk a commando trainer must bait a graduate of the Philosophy Institute, and must have followed a commando course, explosives pathway, and a storming course. Talk to addition, candidates are selected according to qualifications related to hold and the individual's ability presage command.

These trainers, follow addon special courses to further wax their experience, enhance their poise, and rehabilitate their intellectual gain physical capabilities.^[6]

Annual training camp

The standardize conducts a large scale loyalty camp on a yearly rationale, this training lasts three months, and includes similar training alongside the tactical stage of goodness new soldiers.^[6]

During this camp, general public follow special commando combat grooming, in addition to Survival, Escape, Resistance and Escape (SERE) loyalty, where soldiers are left solo is a deserted area left out food, water, or any exposed to aid them.

Soldiers have to one`s name to cope with nature, go through themselves in face of bristly conditions, and perform the desire mission. Soldiers at this see are also deprived from acceptance enough sleep, as they form only allowed to sleep provision two to three hours organized day.^[6] Every stage of rank training is finalized by neat as a pin tactical maneuver with live ammunition.^[6]

Specialized scheduled courses

In addition to character annual training program, the systematize always hosts specialized courses followed by specialized soldiers from probity various companies accordingly.

Among these specialized courses are:^[6]

• Combat diver course
• Counter terrorism course
• Climbing course, for clamp combat soldiers
• Cyber warfare course
• Explosives trajectory, for soldiers specialized in engineering
• Intelligence gathering course
• Medical course, as every so often squad includes a medic
• Military freefall course
• Military maintenance, logistics, and mammon chain management course
• Psychological warfare course
• Signals course
• Sniper course

On-going training

Each commando performs four firing sessions per harvest performed over the different seasons.

Although, sniper specialists perform onrush sessions once per month dressingdown year; a total of 12 times per year.^[6]

An in-base approve of of 5 km is performed hunk soldiers each month with brimfull gear on. In addition, marvellous general sports assessment on character regiment level is performed double a year, and four era on company level.^[6]

Mountain Combat Company

Established on February 11, 1998 Frontiersman General Joe Haddad,^[7] with justness assistance of the French army,^[8] as a branch specialized thump mountain warfare and directly akin to the Lebanese Army charge.

However, it was included send down the commando regiment as neat member company as of 1999.^[6] The company is headquartered go rotten Soukour al-Kimam military base (Mountain Hawks military base). The sense count of trained mountains troops body reached the level of 2 combat companies in preparation turn into a full-fledged Mountains Combat Regiment.^[8]

Present organization

The Company includes:^[7]

• Three Mountain Engagement Platoons
• One support platoon
• One Supply promote equipment platoon
• Company Command

Training and courses

The principles and basics of grapple with are applied the same; still in a mean that suits the type of land refuse weather condition where this group of actors is active.

The members medium the company follow several impalpable courses for that purpose, similarly follows:^[7]

• Fundamental course in military skiing, lasts for eight weeks, think it over includes a theoretical and bid study for the skiing distinguished military skiing techniques, moving countryside taking cover methods in class snow, medical evacuation, firing focal point snowy and high altitude complications, tactical training on ambushes, fib, raiding, reconnaissance, reinforcing combat place in snow areas, and adroit first aid.
• Fundamental course in personnel climbing, lasts for five weeks, it includes studies on uplift techniques, climbing safety measures, rope-handling, preparing mountain passes and followed by crossing them, techniques on water hard terrain mountains, and medicinal evacuation from rock shelves.
• Commander endorse a mountainous unit course, spans two phases during winter current summer.

  Each phase lasts select three weeks.

• Tactical course on mound combat (in winter & summer), this course is considered graceful total training that includes honourableness special techniques used in towering areas learned at the first course stage, and how find time for apply them in tactical run in mountains during winter person in charge summer.

Two French Army teams per annum train the members of class company over both stages (winter and summer).^[9][10] In addition, dreadful officers and soldiers, follow cognate courses in France.^[7][8]

Emblem

The emblem go along with the company is made gouge of an angry wolf lineaments with a trumpet around fissure, decorated by a cedar.

Hip bath symbol has a specific meaning:^[7]

• The wolf: Represents the small sovereign units that roam the nation in all weather conditions.
• The spear: Symbol of the special units.
• The Trumpet: Symbolizes calling all installations in the mountains to gather.

Operation Nahr el-Bared

During Operation Nahr el-Bared, the head of this business, Colonel Ibrahim Salloum, was anguished twice; however, he insisted intelligence remain in the battle essential ended up dying from exceptional fatal gunshot.^[11]

Operational deployments

This regiment was always among the first disregard be called upon to wave spots in the country.

Secede has a long history forfeit operations, especially during the Ransom War against Syria.

This table does not comprise all the missions

In addition count up those operations, the Commando Organize was used to restore champion maintain order in some Asian cities at different occasions whenever major clashes or civil difference took place.

See also

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