₦airaland Forum

Blueelf:
Am i totally wrong

Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming the boys but the superior officers that dont kit them well

The only times these guts are well kitted is when they go for foreign training and pose for pictures. Apart from that, its rare to see them fully kitted.

In fact, I am beginning to believe any NA regular can just wear that black t-shirt and call himself SF

GeneralFarouq:
Nairaland, where pple make claims.
Some of na specials are, AHQSG , I no longer hear about em just appointment of some officers there.
Then we have the 707sf.. these guys aren't joking around, we ve seen em participate in international exercise...

Odunayaw:
Upon all Kabe1 and Bidexii has done for this thread in terms of pictures? Agenda must agend.

Anyway sha, there is proliferation of the cloth and word SF in NA (maybe because of COIN training) but we know who the real Men are

Odunayaw:
Kit, yes (Except NN). Training; how do we ascertain that? They've not been found wanting in battle neither in international exercise.

All SFs are not SAS or Green Berets with worldwide mandate. With much more investment in kits and even brains (for SF Control and Command) they can only go up from where they are.


AND, it takes at least 6 months to train any SF in any of the 3 services. NN has the longest

Odunayaw:
Upon all Kabe1 and Bidexii has done for this thread in terms of pictures? Agenda must agend.

Anyway sha, there is proliferation of the cloth and word SF in NA (maybe because of COIN training) but we know who the real Men are

SuperSixSeven:
What is your definition of fully kitted then?

Blueelf:
Well, I may want to agree with you on the first bolded comment, the second volded comment is what we are clamoring for. What is worth doing is worth doing well. I am not in any way comparing our SF to the SAS or DEVGRU unit but at least, let them be well funded to tackle our immediate National Security concerns.

And please what is the deal with taking out soldeirs to Bulgaria, Serbia etc for SF training? Do they have terrorism concerns like ours over there? You see my point now

ugo4u:
SF polo wey full Mammyi..even soldiers wife dey wear SF shirt . If care isn't taken IDPs will soon be wearing SF kits

SuperSixSeven:
We have a unbelievable number of SF battalions stamped out of nothing in just a short time. SF is always about quality not quantity.

Blueelf:
We don;t have SF and I have said it times without number on other threads. Those guys masquerading as SF after 3 - 4 months "rush rush" training are not SF. SF soldiers take at least 6 - 9 months to train (at least because in some countries, it takes 2 years). Besides, our SF are poorly funded (only the NAF tries in this regard) but the NA SF is an eyesore.

Covert1:
Sounds a lot like conspiracy theories. France appear to lose with Deby's death but it raises a whole lot of questions why didn't they intervene and allow Deby to go to the front if those reports are true, why would they when they could easily halt the advancing rebel column with precision strikes. It might be a game of cards to complicate matters for Abuja in the war or Abuja knows something and would prefer a new leadership in N'djamena. Niger knows its future lies with Nigeria not France a declining power[b]. This whole thing could get some perspective if Nigeria decide it's time to end French hegemony of Francophone West Africa and it can [/b]but with a war on its hands it might not be prudent to do so now rather maybe better to employ clandestine means and ECOWAS mechanisms like the Eco currency to achieve those ends. It can also guarantee presidential security for pliant states. That is one way to weed these states off France.

kikuyu1:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't heard of their camps being overrun or European soldiers SM complaints of missing basic kit and terrible command performance.

Covert1:
iSWAP to all intents and purposes have the appearance of enhanced services of Spec Ops advisors. The forces in this war are not taking anything for granted. They want a weak Nigeria. The pattern of attacks, carefully crafted and choice of attacks is not average in military terms. The Nigerian military should be commended for its efforts not pilloried. More to come

Blueelf:
We don;t have SF and I have said it times without number on other threads. Those guys masquerading as SF after 3 - 4 months "rush rush" training are not SF. SF soldiers take at least 6 - 9 months to train (at least because in some countries, it takes 2 years). Besides, our SF are poorly funded (only the NAF tries in this regard) but the NA SF is an eyesore.

SamuelAnyawu:
But who are the Army SF?

Are they the guys I see here with black T-shirts that has a picture of a skull and knife in its mouth

Or

The guys I see very few in a battalion with a different unique camo holding both Thuraya and radios?

arantess:
Lol, atleast they are better than the golden company with their shiny armor and 2 star services..

cutievik:
The same government that humiliated and kicked out foreign PMC is crawling on its knee's begging the USA. What if this was the long term plan to make Nigeria weak we would come begging on them.

Buhari and his cronies ruined us Sha.

How far the war self?

Lurker4Long:
Why do people think normal terms apply to SF?
An SF "battalion" is never any such as understood by an infantry battalion.
4 sections of x men form a platoon; 4 platoons of x men form a company; 4 companies of x men form a battalion.

In SF that could be 70 men forming a battalion.

Just saying.

Odunayaw:
AND, it takes at least 6 months to train any SF in any of the 3 services. NN has the longest

Nemesis4you:
SF is another ball game their training never ends , even during deployment during CT ops they undergo training as per feedback after every mission. No idea on their training during peacetime deployment , but Afaik it is intensive, even more than during CT deployment . They have to be kept busy come what may

Lurker4Long:
Why do people think normal terms apply to SF?
An SF "battalion" is never any such as understood by an infantry battalion.
4 sections of x men form a platoon; 4 platoons of x men form a company; 4 companies of x men form a battalion.

In SF that could be 70 men forming a battalion.

Just saying.

Nemesis4you:
Well thats awkward

Afaik in SFF each vikas battalion has approx 800 members

Oasis001:
Most of Men in the Army ain't there because they are more patriotic than us, rather as a Mean of Livelihood. Lack of Jobs make most Nigerians enlist in the Army.

GeneralFarouq:
Seriously,
Who in their right mind would join the army to cash out, atleast n Nigeria's current security state

Hoverbird:
When one give a contrary perspective to government position automatically one is seen as a sympathiser of Kanu or IPOB. I have always condemned his utterances, neither have I supported his quest for Biafra am not even from the South east. What IPOB is today is because of the highhandedness of PMB and the military in the first place before they took up arms they were shot point blank, this same army used acids on many of them just for waving flags, we warned that this will only harden them, we should learn to offer political solutions rather than the military options to certain issues. Now they've taken up arms if you ask them they will say the army kills them without holding any arms that it is better for them to die fighting with weapons as they have nothing to lose. We are now stuck in a bubble, same way Bokoharam started and we refused to learn.