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Information about South Vietnam Special Forces

Due to the incessant wars over the years, Vietnam has also maintained a considerable number of elite combat troops. Although there were units to carry out special operations as early as in the battles with France and the United States, the real special forces were established in 1964, and in 1967, the special forces headquarters was set up to be responsible for the recruitment, training, coordination and command of special forces. Vietnam's special forces, also known as special forces, are an extremely powerful guerrilla combat force developed in the constant war with the United States and neighboring countries. At present, there are about 2 thousand troops under the direct command of the highest military authorities in Vietnam. Vietnam's secret service forces have been called "Vietnam's B-52" by the US military because of their outstanding military achievements, especially in the War of Resistance Against America (B-52 is the most powerful long-range bomber in the United States).

Vietnam Special Forces has nine regiments, the most elite of which is an airborne special agent group and two underwater special agents groups (equivalent to the Marine Corps). This is a combat unit with a high degree of mechanization. It is the trump card of the Vietnamese army. It has three special agent battalions, and each battalion has four special agent companies. It can not only go deep into enemy operations independently, but also cooperate with other large legions to play tasks such as intelligence gathering, tactical reconnaissance, destruction, capture and patrol. The fighters of the Airborne Secret Service are all selected from other elite troops or some local professionals. One of their fighting training contents is the traditional fighting training content from China (the captured fighting content used in China's early army), and at the same time, it also incorporates some local martial arts essence, because there are dozens of local boxing techniques in Vietnam. Of course, they also attach great importance to the training and application of short knives, because they think that people's fists can't keep up with the sharpness and hardness of knives even after ten years of hard training. Knives can be used not only for cutting and digging, but also for silently destroying each other.

There are many elite special operations troops in the world, such as the French FOREIGN LEGION. The 75THRANGERGAGIMENT of the US Army (also known as the "Black Beret"); Jordan's "SOUTl" special forces; Russian naval assault troops and so on.