By Kenneth Conboy, Simon McCouaig

Elite devices have lengthy been admired within the armies of South-East Asia and, given the turmoil within the quarter because the Nineteen Sixties, those forces have had considerable chance to be verified in wrestle. stated professional on South-East Asia Ken Conboy outlines the historical past, association and insignia of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Malaysian and numerous different South-East Asian designated forces from their origins up till the overdue 80s, masking such teams because the Vietnamese Luc Luong Dac Biet ('Special Forces') and Lien Doi Ngoui Nhia underwater demolition crew and the Cambodian Airborne Brigade team.

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Marine RecoD In Ig65 the Royal Thai Marine Corps formed a reconnaissance company with the mission of conducting ground and amphibious reconnaissance and special operations. On 27 November 1978, the company was expanded into the Recon Battalion. The battalion currently consists of one headquarters company with an attached platoon of wardogs, one amphibious reconnaissance company, and two V-I50 patrol vehicle companies. The unit is headed by an RTMC lieutenant-colonel and is based at Sattahip. A handful of Marine Recon members saw combat when sent to Laos as part of volunteer Bn.

The Special Warfare Command is also known as 5 Army Region, marking it as a lieutenant-general's command equal to the four geographical Army Regions. While not prone to involvement in Thai domestic politics, the R TSF dispatched I I helicopter-loads of paratroopers to Bangkok during a September Ig85 coup attempt. Their intervention was largely symboljc, however, since the government was already well in control by the time they arrived. In May Ig86 the RTSF was again poised for intervention in Bangkok when Army commander-in-chief Arthit appeared ready to launch a coup.

In '954 it also provided training for small numbers of palace guards for the newly independent Republic of Vietnam. In September '957 PARU suffered a setback when Police Gen. Phao was overthrown in an Army-led coup. Phao's enormous empire was divided, and PARU were threatened with disbandment. Because ofits royal links, however, PARU avoided dissolution. PARU operations in Laos The unit's fortunes improved in '960 with the growing crisis in neighboring Laos. Thailand grew understandably concerned with the situation across its border and in December sent two PARU teams to assist during the Royal Lao government's Malaysian V AT 6g DleDlbers in training.

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