Maroon Berets

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[edit] MAROON BERETS

(Bordo Bereliler)-(MB)An elite armed force that created by officers from Turkish Army. The unit was created to eliminate any inside or outside attack to country, a MB officer can survive in any type of terrain, climate, highly trained and educated special soldiers. Today it is under order of Special Forces (old Special Warfare Unit) It also works along with Attack Search & Rescue Teams (ASR) and Underwater Attack Teams (UWA) (Marine Search Teams

MB’s also does close protection of Government officials. (Reuters: Turkish Special forces (MB) won the first place in Germany 2004 Special Forces Competition)They became media famous with the caption of Terrorist Leader Abdullah Öcalan in Kenya and brought him back to Turkey. The MB’s identities remain confidential by MIT (Turkish Secret Service)

[edit] Education & Training

In categories of 3 education & training will be given to a MB. These are
a. Domestic
b. International
c. Specialty In these 3 categories they have 47 different subjects of education and exams. Domestic training takes 72 weeks of basic training; International training takes 10 to 52 weeks of specialty training in different countries. It takes 3.5 years to become a MB

These are some of the training and education they have to accomplish before they become a MB.
Domestic: War techniques, PE, martial arts, Identifying-locating, long distance explore & patrol, infiltration, survival, interrogation/anti-interrogation, escape, special operations, psychological operations, helping civilians, parachuting, commando, personal protection, winter warfare, frogman, paragliding.
Specialty: Explosives, explosion techniques, mine & bubi traps, first aid, paramedic, survival-escape, Light and Heavy weaponry, communication, arsenal termination courses.
International: Mastering on Special Forces, Air unit, civilian relations, patrolling, survival, psychological operations courses. also these units are well equipped diplomats.

MB's currently involved with security of South East Turkey, Domestic and North Iraq Operations, due to this; they are in constant training & education against terrorism and guerilla warfare.

Resources: Emre Oztas