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A. Special Forces training
Once candidates meet the requirements above, they must take part in the 57-week Special Forces Basic Training Cycle.
The Special Forces Basic Training Cycle consists of the following:
- Special Forces Individual Phase 1
- Special Forces Selection
- Medical Level 1 – 4
- Special Forces Individual Phase 2
- Special Forces Basic Demolitions
- Basic Static Line Parachuting
- Special Forces Air Operations
- Small Boat Coxswain
- Bush craft, tracking and survival
- Minor Tactics Rural
- Minor Tactics Urban
B. Advanced Special Forces Training
After completing the Special Forces Basic Training Cycle, a candidate becomes a Specials Forces Operator.
They can then continue with a combination of the following specialists fields:
- Demolitions
- Sniping
- Bush Craft, Tracking and Survival
- Urban Reconnaissance
- Rural Reconnaissance
- Photography
- Climbing Techniques
- Urban Operations
- Operational Emergency Care Practitioner
- Parachuting
- Heavy Weapons
- Seaborne Training
- Attack Diving
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Fast roping and hot extraction techniques using helicopters…
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Hot extractions (2), “Vlermuis” (Bat) vehicles slung under Oryx helicopters with crew in attendance in two other, C130 with “Vlermuis” vehicles…
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Mastery of the sea, maneuvering in canoes, stealth approaches to beachheads..All are in the skills repertoire of the seaborne operators…
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Bush craft, mastery of heavy weapons such as the 106mm anti-tank gun, demolitions expertise…
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Minor Tactics – explosion, RPG fire in attack…
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Firing anti-aircraft guns, using and having fun with an RPG, using explosives, concealment in the bush…
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Parachuting in its many forms: tailgating from a C130, relative work in the air, on the ground with rolled up parachute after landing, HALO…
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Operator in flight during a HALO jump and another on the ground afterwards, free fall team with a Puma and the pilots, Dakota static line jump…
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The first HALO course to start on 12,000 feet. It took place in 1978…
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Static Line jumping with Free Fall Parachutes, approach to Donkergat DZ, sea level flare out RV with inflatable boat…
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Mountaineering and abseiling, training wall for climbing, scaling a dam wall…
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Mountain rescue missions…
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Survival, making fire, hot food, catching fish…
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Cutting tree roots to make coffee…
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Urban warfare training smoke room, preparing to breach…
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Advanced Urban Warfare…
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