This is someone from this new unit. I can see that a lot of
questions have popped up here but none answered, so here's the
answers to anyone who's interested in re-reading this 3-day old
thread...
1. I'm not at liberty to disclose anything more than what the media
has reported.
2. We are through-and-through a combat unit. Wearing civi for urban
ops is but one of the stuff that we do, on top of the usual
military training everyone goes through, i.e. SOC, IPPT, CCT
etc.
3. We are (foremost) recce-trained and we were the green beret for
parades because we are infantry-trained. We're definitely not
LRRPs, and we don't don some silly *pink* berets... Unfortunately,
jungle hats are not official headwear for parade, so it's still
green berets for now ya?
4. As what the articles have mentioned, what differentiates us from
the usual BRCs/scout platoons is the fact that we conduct field
trials with new equipment. Once these equipment are deployable,
they will be pushed down to the "usual" units, and we'll start to
experiment with even newer sensors... A dirty word for this, yup,
is guinea pigs...
5. The new camo LBVs have lots of pockets!
If anyone is still showing interest in this thread, I'll try to
answer them to the best of my ability, sans any sensitive
information.
