10 Paratrooper Brigade (Malaysia)

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10 Paratrooper Brigade (Airborne)
Insignia of 10 PARA Brigade
Active	1970s - Present
Country	Malaysia
Branch	Royal Malaysian Army
Type	Paratrooper
Role	Counter Terrorism, Parachute Infantry Unit
Part of	Malaysian Armed Forces, Malaysian Special Operations Force
Nickname	Rapid Deployment Force (PAC)
Motto	Act Fast (English:Tindak Pantas)
Colors	Maroon beret
March	Tiada Misi Terlalu Sukar, Tiada Pengorbanan Terlalu Besar, Tugas Diutamakan (English:No Mission Is Too Difficult, No Sacrifice Is Too Great, The Mission Comes First)
Engagements	Operation Astute MALTIM INTERFET,Timor Timur MASMEDTIM, Indonesia MASMEDTIM, Pakistan Ops Pasir Genting Sempah Incident MALCON - UNIFIL 2007
Commanders
Colonel of the Regiment	Brigadier General Dato' Suhaimi Mohd Zuki

10 Paratrooper Brigade - commonly known as 10 PARA - is an elite airborne brigade-sized unit within the Malaysian Army tasked with being rapidly deployed inside or outside the boundaries of Malaysia. 10 PARA is the key element of the Malaysian Pasukan Aturgerak Cepat (Rapid Deployment Force, PAC). See Para Portal at Weblog Portal Para

1 Para's Portal
2 Beginning
- 2.1 Timeline
3 Roles
4 Maroon Beret Identities
5 10th Para Insignia
6 Training
7 Light firearms
8 Trivia
9 Recent Operations
10 References
11 See also
- 11.1 Similar Parachute and Rapid Reaction Forces Outside Malaysia
12 Enternal Links

[edit] Para's Portal

Visit 10th Paratrooper Brigade's Portal [1]

[edit] Beginning

10 PARA's primary role is to be the nation's main offensive force in time of war or emergencies. The creation of the Parachute Brigade was proposed by Malaysia's defence planners in the late 1970s as a part of the modernisation plan for the military. The plan originally did not receive much support from the government due to concerns that the formation of such a brigade would be looked with suspicion by its neighbour, Singapore.

In November 1988 Malaysia was unable to respond to a request for assistance by Maldives when that country was invaded by Tamil mercenaries. This inability to render timely help prompted Malaysian leaders to move to form paratrooper units within the Malaysian Army.

[edit] Timeline

Colonel Ranjit Singh Ramday bestowed the rank Captain to Major to one officer of 10 Para Brigade.

1988 - a single Malaysian Army infantry battalion from the 8 Royal Ranger Regiment is parachute trained and converted from their traditional infantry role into a parachute battalion. This battalion becomes the first members of the new rapid deployment force.
1990 - 17th Battalion Royal Malay Regiment and 9th Battalion Royal Malay Regiment are jump qualified and join the rapid deployment force.
October 10, 1994 - Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad formally redesignates the 10 Malaysian Infantry Brigade as the 10 Parachute Brigade.
October, 1994 - 10 PARA undertakes a rapid deployment exercise, supported by elements of the Malaysian Special Forces Group (Gerup Gerak Khas) and PASKAL and with operational support provided by the Royal Malaysian Navy and Royal Malaysian Air Force. The exercise centres around a scenario of the retaking of Langkawi International Airport from an invading force by the Rapid Deployment Force spearheaded by 8th Rangers (Para).

[edit] Roles

10 Paratrooper Brigade has a various skillful how the status as an army rapid reaction unit. That’s also the reasons, 10 Para were admitted the owned they advantage and be able to deployment in the short time for deployed to other operations area aligned with brigade’s motto -Tindak Pantas (Act Fast).

The elite 10 Paratrooper Brigade briskness were presented the one advantage to Malaysian Armed Forces to executed the missions for ensure this country was peaceful until now. From the dexterity aspect, 10 Paratrooper is a parachute special force which equal status with other outside parachute forces. 10 Para Brigade indeed is a comfortably special forces but in the same time it always own the low profile person and unlike to proud with the own skillful. Esprit-de-corp become main core of this force and also can be parable as the unit which formosted the good relationships among every personals and senior officers.

[edit] Maroon Beret Identities

Maroon beret wearing by this special force brigades it's also titled as Pegasus. Pegasus was a winged horse and much have in the West traditional tales, especially in a Greek mythology. This greatness animal as early as used by British Paratrooper forces during to executed the selection test to British Army personals before they qualified to be accepted as Paratrooper personals and afterwards qualified to wear the maroon beret. In this formation, among conditions for wearing the maroon beret qualified is passed the basic parachute course and succeed to completed the course the adjustment of Maroon Beret or Pegasus.

[edit] 10th Para Insignia

Motto: The nickname of 10 Para is Tindak Pantas (English:Act Fast).

March: The motto of 10 Para is Tiada Misi Terlalu Sukar, Tiada Pengorbanan Terlalu Besar, Tugas Diutamakan, meaning, No mission is too difficult, no sacrifice is too great, duty comes first.

Maroon berets: A symbolized the 10 Para identities and also a symbolized to the British Paratroopers during a World War II.

Parachute wings: For 10 Para members, this parachute wings it's titled as Sayap Berdarah or meaning The Blood of Wings. This title is given to all personals of Paratrooper which many to sacrificed for the country along the establishment of this unit.

[edit] Training

An elite 10 Paratrooper Brigade female operators taking poses with Sig Sauer P226 pistols.

Members of the brigade must have passed a series physical qualifying test (Latihan Semangat Waja) before to qualified for wearing the maroon berets and parachute wings.

Among others a series physical qualifying test included:

Warfare warm-up
Marshy jungle tracking march
12 kilometre march
Raid executions
5 kilometre escape and evasions
Abseilling
Rapelling
Nosedive rapelling
22 kilometre march
Mounted Gunung Ledang
Survival
33 kilometre navigations
65 kilometre suitable march
32 kilometre propelled the assault boat
7 kilometre running
Village intersect
Woodlog running
32 kilometre forced march
Platoon and section combat march
Armory dexterities

One operator from 10 Paratrooper Brigade takes aim the new M4A1 carbine equipped with SOPMOD Block I systems, including AIMPOINT CompM4.

It was designed to mentally and physically test candidates for jump qualification.

Basic of specialist course including:

Tactical Air Landing Operations (TALO)
Parachute course
Close Quarters Combat (CQC)
HALO/HAHO
Sniper course
Demolition expert
Marksmanship
Sharpshooters etc.

After successfully to complete the course, wearing the Maroon Berets and The Blood of Wing rites for officers and mens will excellent by 10 Para Commanders.

[edit] Light firearms

Firearms
Pistol	Shotgun	Submachinegun	Rifles/Carbines	Sniper Rifles	Machineguns
Beretta M92F/S	Remington 870	HK MP5SD2	Colt M4A1 SOPMOD Block I	Acc-Int. PM	FN MAG
Browning HP Mk.3		HK MP5SD3	Colt M16A1 Model 653	MacMillan M96	FN Minimi
Colt M1911A1			Steyr AUG		HK 11A1
Glock 17
HK P9S
HK USP9
Sig Sauer P226
Sig P2022
Vektor SP1

[edit] Trivia

Other than Brigadier General Suhaimi, many the leaders successful trained by this brigade. They are Commander of Malaysian Army, General Dato' Muhammad Ismail Jamaluddin and Deputy Commander of Malaysian Army, Lieutenant General Dato' Masood Zainal Abidin and 1st Division Command, Lieutenant General Dato' Muhammad Effendi Mustaffa. 10 Paratrooper has a grade as an elite forces of Malaysian Armed Forces not only joinned by the male officers, they were also joinned by female paratroopers.

[edit] Recent Operations

The unit has been deployed in the following operations:

Operation	Country	Year
Malaysian Medical Team (MASMEDTIM), Chaman	Pakistan
MASMEDTIM, Kashmir	Pakistan
MASMEDTIM, Acheh	Indonesia
Operations PADANAN SIPADAN ISLAND RESORT (Ops Pasir)	Malaysia	2006
Operation Astute^[1]	Timor-Leste	2006
MALCON-UNIFIL, Lebanon	Lebanon	2007
Genting Sempah Incident	Malaysia	2007