Stop 1st Commando Regiment losing their Green Berets.
For over 80 years, the knowledge and skills of Australia’s World War II Commandos and Special Operations operators have been preserved and enhanced by the part-time Commandos of the 1st Commando Regiment. This regiment is supported by a small cadre of regular Army personnel, typically from the Special Air Service Regiment and more recently from the 2nd Commando Regiment. It remains the only Army Reserve unit to have deployed on warlike operations since World War II.
Since the first Green Beret was awarded in July 1956, it is estimated that nearly 10,000 male soldiers, along with a small number of women, have qualified for this coveted beret, meeting the rigorous skills and physical requirements initially based on the Royal Marine Commando and British Army Commando standards.
Recently, Special Operations Command has proposed changes to assign the 1st Commando Regiment a new role in Special Warfare, also known as Unconventional Warfare or Guerrilla Warfare. This was the original purpose for raising the initial two part-time Commando Companies in 1955, though it was not widely known for security reasons at that time.
As a result of these new initiatives, it is intended that new part-time and full-time members of the 1st Commando Regiment will no longer be called Commandos and will no longer be eligible to be awarded the Green Beret.
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So now the commando unit is about to lose its green berets, a symbolic refto the commando unit is about to lose its way through some people wanting change, but there is no doubt that the people wanting change wouldn’t have a clue what that beret means to many, i am sureif any of these bearacratic bunglers ever had the chance to don the green beret they wouldn’teven be considering this change, ,maybe it’s time we start a partition to retain the green beret and rid these bearacratic people once and for all,
TONY BROWN STAWELL
The more things change the more they stay the same. The thinking in the Bum Polishers Union at Russell House is well and truly ingrained. One Gronk gone and the New Rising may be the same?