Singapore's own Special Forces are known to be very well trained. Their hardwares are top notch and comparable to most tier one units out there. To get to where they will be from here on out is truly nothing short of determination and self perseverance. Hats off to the ones that went for it and made it. Appreciate the channel for taking the time to review. Utmost, respect.
The uniforms have "camouflage, pixelised" printed on their labels. Colloquially in the army, we just call these the no. 4 uniform, or pixelised pattern. The name "No. 4" is a throwback to the British Army uniform naming conventions which we adopted (being a former British Crown Colony). No. 1 is Ceremonial Dress Uniform, No. 2 is Formal Dining Uniform, No. 3 is daily office uniform, No. 4 is combat fatigues, so on and so forth. Also, the course in this video is not the Special Forces Qualification Course ("SFQC"). This particular course shown in the video is the Joint Special Operations Selection Course, where prospective soldiers from different branches of the Singapore Armed Forces can apply to try and be selected to go for the SFQC. Only people who pass this selection course can move on to the SFQC, where if they pass, they will be an official member of Singaporean SF. There are also multiple SF units in Singapore but those who pass the SFQC will be going into the Special Operations Task Force ("SOTF"), which is equivalent to US Tier 1 units like Delta.
To clarify here, passing SFQC is only the beginning. It does not mean you are a full fledged SF operator, and certainly does not mean that you are part of the SF community.
1:18 - in Singapore there're several tiers and levels of tactical forces, the police have their equivalent of your american SWAT units - we call them STAR (and they are also heli/water qualified) for civilian policing type of operations, while the military comes in for the 'real' terrorists situations such as hijacks. Their core training is in their war-time special operations roles, which is very different. This qualification course is just the first weeding out course, taking place over 2 weeks... the selected will go through a year long real 'selection', and out of which only 10-20% earn their badges. Its a joint selection because those finish the 2nd phase year long course, will be deployed to either the navy's SWG (Special Warfare group), specializing in naval insertions and most are US SEAL badged, while the army takes the rest for the Special Operations Force (SOF) , similar to DELTA, but most of them get through US SEAL training as well.
U just did STAR dirty dude. Their training and hell week is insane. They’re more comparable to the FBI HRT, Hong Kong’s SDU, French RAID, etc. SOG which comprises of STAR, STS, and GSAG trainees undergo the basic training which is 9 months. That basic training that they undergo is the police equivalent of the SFQC. After 9 months of basic training, they go to their respective units namely STAR, STS, or GSAG (for Gurkhas), and they continue with their own unit centric courses and trainings. U can’t compare that level to a “typical” or “standard” SWAT team. The local swat team equivalent in Singapore is PTU and not STAR. STAR and SOTF are Singapore’s dedicated homeland hostage rescue units
The selection process is open to all three branches of the formations even service side. Back in the SOF days my flight also got guys went for it, first 7days just run and run , PT all days to weed out the majority.
In the 80s when singapore was setting up SOF, as they used to be called, they had lots of help from certain western countries. In fact, you can still see traces of those western countries in their culture in their community. Even their logo looks strikingly familiar. If you look around you will find another SF unit elsewhere with relatively similar logo.
The camo pattern is called "singpat" or Singapore pattern. It is similar to marpat but the colors are different... more green from a distance it also resembles the Russian camo uniform in terms of colors.
The evolution itself are hard but do able and not so hard as most who turn up can easily ace them but the hard part if in between the evolutions, where constant physical exertions to tire out the candidates which give them not enough rest to push through and also the mental wear out part as well when u are tired in between to perform at your usual best for the next evolution, guess that will weed out folks who are so determined to be an operators or going through the 8-9mth course during the 2 weeks selections
Here is a series of videos for a course in the Singapore Army --> ua-cam.com/video/Psfb-xhYwxI/v-deo.html It's called the Guards Conversion Course, to convert regular infantry into "Guardsmen" once they are inducted into a Guards Unit. The Singapore Guards Formation is roughly similar to the USMC in terms of capabilities and the type of missions they take on, which is also why there is an annual bilateral exercise that we do with the USMC called "Exercise Valiant Mark" (lots of videos on youtube with footage of this exercise). This video series is a little bit outdated as it's around a decade old. However, most of the contents of the course are the same. Source: I was part of a Guards Unit when I served in the Singapore Armed Forces and I have gone through this course as well. Feel free to reach out if you'd like any more information or video recommendations!
@@jointbasepodcast that's why sgp supports israel. When they separated from m'sia israel stepped in to train the new army. Looking forward to your review! 👍
@@johnj1602not just Israel. If you Wikipedia the Singapore Special Operations Force and look at the logo, it resembles the most famous SF Unit in the world. Their motto of “WE DARE” makes it very obvious who’s the main inspiration.
@@jointbasepodcast In times of war modern weapon cannot be 100% reliable it can be jammed or not working especially when u faced with pious muslim soldiers..with supernatural power.
SOTF is a counter terrorist Force, along with ADF and SOF. Some of them have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to deal with terrorists. While GGK is a commando that does guerilla warfare. A similar comparison would be SG CDO FN instead.
Singapore's own Special Forces are known to be very well trained. Their hardwares are top notch and comparable to most tier one units out there. To get to where they will be from here on out is truly nothing short of determination and self perseverance. Hats off to the ones that went for it and made it. Appreciate the channel for taking the time to review. Utmost, respect.
Nicely said! Thanks for watching!
The uniforms have "camouflage, pixelised" printed on their labels. Colloquially in the army, we just call these the no. 4 uniform, or pixelised pattern.
The name "No. 4" is a throwback to the British Army uniform naming conventions which we adopted (being a former British Crown Colony). No. 1 is Ceremonial Dress Uniform, No. 2 is Formal Dining Uniform, No. 3 is daily office uniform, No. 4 is combat fatigues, so on and so forth.
Also, the course in this video is not the Special Forces Qualification Course ("SFQC"). This particular course shown in the video is the Joint Special Operations Selection Course, where prospective soldiers from different branches of the Singapore Armed Forces can apply to try and be selected to go for the SFQC. Only people who pass this selection course can move on to the SFQC, where if they pass, they will be an official member of Singaporean SF. There are also multiple SF units in Singapore but those who pass the SFQC will be going into the Special Operations Task Force ("SOTF"), which is equivalent to US Tier 1 units like Delta.
I appreciate the clarification!
I like how they simplified the uniforms with #'s. I need to get a set of "No. 4." 🤣
To clarify here, passing SFQC is only the beginning. It does not mean you are a full fledged SF operator, and certainly does not mean that you are part of the SF community.
1:18 - in Singapore there're several tiers and levels of tactical forces, the police have their equivalent of your american SWAT units - we call them STAR (and they are also heli/water qualified) for civilian policing type of operations, while the military comes in for the 'real' terrorists situations such as hijacks. Their core training is in their war-time special operations roles, which is very different.
This qualification course is just the first weeding out course, taking place over 2 weeks... the selected will go through a year long real 'selection', and out of which only 10-20% earn their badges.
Its a joint selection because those finish the 2nd phase year long course, will be deployed to either the navy's SWG (Special Warfare group), specializing in naval insertions and most are US SEAL badged, while the army takes the rest for the Special Operations Force (SOF) , similar to DELTA, but most of them get through US SEAL training as well.
I appreciate you sharing and watching
U just did STAR dirty dude. Their training and hell week is insane. They’re more comparable to the FBI HRT, Hong Kong’s SDU, French RAID, etc. SOG which comprises of STAR, STS, and GSAG trainees undergo the basic training which is 9 months. That basic training that they undergo is the police equivalent of the SFQC. After 9 months of basic training, they go to their respective units namely STAR, STS, or GSAG (for Gurkhas), and they continue with their own unit centric courses and trainings. U can’t compare that level to a “typical” or “standard” SWAT team. The local swat team equivalent in Singapore is PTU and not STAR. STAR and SOTF are Singapore’s dedicated homeland hostage rescue units
The selection process is open to all three branches of the formations even service side. Back in the SOF days my flight also got guys went for it, first 7days just run and run , PT all days to weed out the majority.
Interesting! I bet y'all put some miles in.
In the 80s when singapore was setting up SOF, as they used to be called, they had lots of help from certain western countries. In fact, you can still see traces of those western countries in their culture in their community. Even their logo looks strikingly familiar. If you look around you will find another SF unit elsewhere with relatively similar logo.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to look at the logo.
Not just the logo being similar, but I feel the most obvious thing is the Singapore Special Forces motto being: “WE DARE”
The camo pattern is called "singpat" or Singapore pattern. It is similar to marpat but the colors are different... more green from a distance it also resembles the Russian camo uniform in terms of colors.
The evolution itself are hard but do able and not so hard as most who turn up can easily ace them but the hard part if in between the evolutions, where constant physical exertions to tire out the candidates which give them not enough rest to push through and also the mental wear out part as well when u are tired in between to perform at your usual best for the next evolution, guess that will weed out folks who are so determined to be an operators or going through the 8-9mth course during the 2 weeks selections
Thanks for the clarification! That's what most people say about selection. It's not really ONE thing that makes it difficult
Here is a series of videos for a course in the Singapore Army --> ua-cam.com/video/Psfb-xhYwxI/v-deo.html
It's called the Guards Conversion Course, to convert regular infantry into "Guardsmen" once they are inducted into a Guards Unit. The Singapore Guards Formation is roughly similar to the USMC in terms of capabilities and the type of missions they take on, which is also why there is an annual bilateral exercise that we do with the USMC called "Exercise Valiant Mark" (lots of videos on youtube with footage of this exercise).
This video series is a little bit outdated as it's around a decade old. However, most of the contents of the course are the same.
Source: I was part of a Guards Unit when I served in the Singapore Armed Forces and I have gone through this course as well. Feel free to reach out if you'd like any more information or video recommendations!
Thanks, I'll check it out!
Still a lot of the training are censored.😁 what shown are 10% only😁😁
I bet! They'll never show the entire selection.
the camo we used is type of woodland Pixelated
I appreciate it brother
Trained and modeled by israel right?
I'm not sure. I was about to review Israel, so we'll find out together
@@jointbasepodcast that's why sgp supports israel. When they separated from m'sia israel stepped in to train the new army. Looking forward to your review! 👍
@@johnj1602not just Israel. If you Wikipedia the Singapore Special Operations Force and look at the logo, it resembles the most famous SF Unit in the world. Their motto of “WE DARE” makes it very obvious who’s the main inspiration.
U like real only ah moh
Thanks for watching
Real combat is different from training and practice. Cause in practice no one is shooting back.
True that
Malaysia GGK
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Wayang, nothing special lol😂
😂😂😂
Thanks for watching!
Still prefer Malaysian GGK
Yeah, they are hard to beat. I hope the documentary goes into more depth.
@@jointbasepodcast In times of war modern weapon cannot be 100% reliable it can be jammed or not working especially when u faced with pious muslim soldiers..with supernatural power.
SOTF is a counter terrorist Force, along with ADF and SOF. Some of them have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to deal with terrorists. While GGK is a commando that does guerilla warfare. A similar comparison would be SG CDO FN instead.
@@rosleeabdulaziz7733 Yeah Bomoh power that can deflect North Korean Nuclear missiles 🤣🤣
Diam je la. Yang masuk diorang bukan kau. Takde pun diorang kecoh kecoh. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses.