Thai Navy SEAL Training

[BKK]

5 videos to check out.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/multimedia/tag/seal

[kpel308]

Thanks, BKK. Of course, it looks like they took it easy on the boys since the Post was there. "Are you talented? Say "I'm talented!" LMAO.

And the Khmer think they have a chance against the Thais.

[Tracy]

...And the Khmer think they have a chance against the Thais.


Hahahaha. No.

Great set of videos. Suckage is a language anyone can understand.

[BKK]

I like the very last graduation scene where the one guy is getting congradulated by a lady who goes to squeeze his shoulder. The same cut up shoulders he had to use to crawl bare chested over those rocks. You see him pull away thinking "Hey man that hurts!"

[magician]

And the Khmer think they have a chance against the Thais.


Actually, the Thai have a very poor history against the Cambodians. They get their asses handed to them every time that they have a fracas on the border.

This is the thing: Thailand is much wealthier than Cambodia. Thailand can afford surveillance blimps that never fly, Ukrainian APCs that were ordered and paid for three years ago but still have not yet been delivered, Swedish Gripen fighters, Israeli assault rifles, and those stupid British GT200 bomb detectors that do not detect anything.

None of those things impact the balance of forces between Cambodia and Thailand, in my opinion. Terrain is the great equalizer, and the comparison then devolves down to which units have superior infantry expertise and morale, and which commanders have better experience. The Thai commanders might have more time in a school room, but the Cambodians eclipse them in terms of familiarity with their sectors.

If we are only talking about a border fight, I got to go with the Cambodians.

If we are betting one dollar on who wins a border skirmish, my money is on Cambodia.

[SOTB]

If we are betting one dollar on who wins a border skirmish, my money is on Cambodia.It has been a very long time since I played with Thai SOF, but at that time, my thoughts were the same as Magician's. The Thai may have a hard school -- but what I've seen them actually apply in the field is some rather inept and lazy concepts/skills.

That you haven't been through a cool-guy school doesn't mean you are less capable of bringing badassery to the field on game day....

[Frog]

It has been a very long time since I played with Thai SOF, but at that time, my thoughts were the same as Magician's. The Thai may have a hard school -- but what I've seen them actually apply in the field is some rather inept and lazy concepts/skills.

That you haven't been through a cool-guy school doesn't mean you are less capable of bringing badassery to the field on game day....


Not so of the THAI SEALs. They are smart and tough. During the 10 years I worked with them, they had more combat experience than we did. Some of thier guys also completed US BUD/S after completing Thai BUD/S training - that's going to BUD/S twice.

[SOTB]

Not so of the THAI SEALs. They are smart and tough. During the 10 years I worked with them, they had more combat experience than we did....The Thais I worked with in the summer of '83 were SOF, used naval rank, and US Navy SEALs had just finished a workup with them prior to our arrival (doing hydro surveys). But I have no idea any longer as to what unit they were. They were fairly good at asking locals for directions, setting up campfires, and talking about how dangerous it was working on the Cambodian border (and more) -- not so good at land nav, noise discipline, and long movements without stopping (and more)....

[The Fat Guy]

Hahahaha. No.

Great set of videos. Suckage is a language anyone can understand.

Rights of passage are pretty much the same everywhere, THEY make YOU do things that suck and they do not care if you like it or not.

No matter what language, the message is the same, "Look here Mister, if you wanna wear cool sunglasses in uniform, you gotta endure the suck"

[tm3e]

During UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia UN patrols clashed with Khmer Rouge patrols that were lead or advised by Thais. Around 1993 an Australian patrol of sigs were captured after a brief firefight with the Khmer Rouge. After a brief skirmish they surrendered and were taken prisoner by a Thai lead Khmer Rouge platoon.

[bikewrench8541]

1985 cut from wiki article.
April 20: At southeastern Thailand's Trat Province, some 1,200 Vietnamese troops attacked Thai positions situated 3 to 4 km from the Gulf of Thailand. Instead of withdrawing the Vietnamese set up a permanent base on a hill in Thailand, about a half mile from the border, where they laid mines and built bunkers. Later, escalating Thai attacks had pushed some of the Vietnamese back into Cambodia, but the Hanoi government dispatched a fresh battalion of 600 to 800 men to reinforce the hilltop half a mile inside Thailand.[65][65]
May 10: A Thai soldier was killed after stepping on a land mine while on patrol.[65]
May 11: Thailand's American-made jet fighters and heavy artillery pounded Vietnamese troops occupying a hill half a mile inside Thailand, and Thai soldiers poised for an assault on the heavily mined position. The Thais bombed and shelled the Vietnamese before an infantry operation was to be launched in the Banthad Mountain range, 170 miles southeast of Bangkok. The Vietnamese were dug in along the hill and had laid a string of mines to counter any Thai ground assaults. Seven Thai soldiers have been reported killed and at least 16 were injured. Radio Hanoi reported a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry statement denying the latest reported incursion into Thailand. Thailand had accused Vietnam of at least 40 cross-border forays in search of Cambodian guerrillas since November 1984, but the Vietnamese government had denied the charges.[65]
May 15: Vietnamese and Thai soldiers clashed for about eight hours with mortars, antitank cannons and machine guns.
May 17: Thai soldiers drove intruding Vietnamese soldiers back into Cambodia in intense fighting along Thailand's southeastern border. After more than a week of fighting, Thai rangers and marines seized part of a Vietnamese-occupied hill just inside the Thai border the previous days.[66]

Around the end of May we trained and hung out with the Thai Marines who did the fighting here, including their Recon and SEAL guys. There had been several train ups during the previous couple years and they were pretty good. Especially the Recon and SEAL O's a couple of whom were US trained.
They were all pretty broken up over their heavy friendly casualties but they trained us on the latest Vietnamese booby traps and liberally threw C-4 at us during training!

I have recently seen a photo of my bro (USN SEAL) catching a cobra, which was mandatory for graduation from Thai BUD/S, LOL! What!

[bikewrench8541]

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[JDAM]

I have recently seen a photo of my bro (USN SEAL) catching a cobra, which was mandatory for graduation from Thai BUD/S, LOL! What!

If we are talking about the same guy (M.C.), I've seen that too. Great pic.

[pirana]

หน่วยสงครามพิเศษทางเรือ-

Damn good guys, from Mikey on down. I sure do respect them.

[JDAM]

หน่วยสงครามพิเศษทางเรือ-

:cool:

[pirana]

I have recently seen a photo of my bro (USN SEAL) catching a cobra, which was mandatory for graduation from Thai BUD/S, LOL! What!

Y'know, it's funny to watch them catch one with a group. They're masters.

One of the other threads here is about encounters with wildlife. It's hard to write them, because I swear someone would call "bullshit," there were so many for me.

But once on a river bank, we were patrolling along. I was new there, and right out front with some Thai guy. It was fresh in the evening, terrible time to be moving. I was psyched enough because we had agressors out. My point counterpart looked at me and gave me the "danger" hand signal, then pointed to a cobra right in front of me. I filled my diapers and passed the alert along down the column.

[bikewrench8541]

Nice save!
"Fuckin Cobra!"

[BKK]

Having Cobras come into your house is not anything wild, or unusal in Thailand. These Thai guys grew up with them, and were probably always told by their moms "Hey get this cobra out of our living room"

[bikewrench8541]

Yeah but this was bare hands bro.:eek:
Not stick capture. To be sure he said it was easy but he's always had experience with snakes.