3rd Special Forces Group and 7th Special Forces Group rotated responsibility to train and advise in Afghanistan. Army Special Forces A-Team, and began going through an 18-week cycle: six weeks each of train-up, missions and recovery. Upon graduation, each Commando Kandak returned to its designated corps area along with an embedded U.S. The first Commando Kandak graduated on July 24, 2007, with Col. The unit recruits from all over Afghanistan from various Afghan Army units, taking in prospective Pashtuns, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek and Turkmen to prevent forms of tribal allegiance and bias. The third section focused on the kandak staff, and their command and control functions. To support the fighting companies, the Headquarters and Headquarters Toli received other training such as in mortars, medical care, and communications. The primary and bulk of the training was geared for the infantry toli (company), with a focus on individual skills and small unit tactics. The 12-week course ran three separate training programmes for different parts of the nascent unit at the same time. The camp was reported as being in either Wardak Province or Kabul Province. Training was conducted at the Morehead Commando Training Center ( Rish Khor camp), a longtime former Afghan Army installation located ten kilometres (six miles) south of Kabul. Each battalion was assigned to one of the six regional corps. In early 2007, a program began to take one conventional infantry kandak ( battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, give them special training and equipment, and reorganize them based on the 75th Ranger Regiment of the United States Army.
The first Commando battalion was formed from existing infantry battalions. Īfter the Fall of Kabul and the collapse of the ANA and Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Commandos have been virtually dissolved. The unit structure was based on the 75th Ranger Regiment. During the Taliban insurgency, the commandos comprised 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conducted 70% to 80% of the fighting. The Afghan National Army Commando Corps (formerly ANA Commando Brigade ANA Commando Battalion ) was a commando force of the Afghan National Army (ANA).
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