Are those terrorists also commando? As far as I'm concern, they are just gunmen.

Btw, are you sure it's 14?Last time I heard 14 death, 12 of them being terrorists while the other two is our own commando.

This post has been edited by Varezart: Mar 2 2013, 08:16 PM

seasoned fighters from MNLF and Abu Sayaf is hard to beat, do you think they're just 'tourists' as Hisham claimed?

Anyway there's probably more soon

I hear reports that the terrorists waved a white flag and our commandos were caught offguard, when they started firing +mortar attack.

This post has been edited by Einjahr: Mar 2 2013, 08:18 PM

commandos are not soldiers with iddqd god-mode turned on.
look at the history of other commando units like the SAS, sayaret matkal etc and they've had their casualties as well.

this.

yeah just watched news that the gunmen waved a white flag to bait the commandos.

Are they equivalent to commando? All I keep hearing is they are just terrorists/gunmen but not specific info of their rank.

why don't you sample them yourself ? dont forget to bring your scoresheet..

let us know, k?

Ok, so you don't have the answer.

I guess some Malaysian just like to do the talk but no walk.

This post has been edited by Varezart: Mar 2 2013, 08:30 PM

+1

lets just say they honed their fighting ability longer and in real world situation with plipin force, they are not some guys that took up arm just before coming here.

you so rude...

lol. they are not part of any formal military - despite calling themselves the royal army - where got rank?
more likely bunch of pirates/rebels with years of battle experience.

Yeah..that's what I thought as well. Just a bunch of pirates/rebels.....

This post has been edited by Varezart: Mar 2 2013, 08:28 PM

just so sick and tired of people being so anal about everything.

Come on la the IRA were not trained professionally as an ARMY,yet they are feared even by the SAS.

This post has been edited by Einjahr: Mar 2 2013, 08:30 PM

even the SAS suffered casualties fighting the IRA, please dont kid yourself thinking that these guys as trivial opponents.

This post has been edited by Einjahr: Mar 2 2013, 08:32 PM

A lot of people think the word commando means super-hero, or at least something close to it. In the popular mind, they're thought of as the ultimate elite soldier, the solution to every problem.
The fact is, a commando is just someone trained to fight under a specific set of circumstances.
He's the guy you send in when there are more bad guys than good guys, when surprise is the only advantage you can get in an operation.
When it works, commandos seem unstoppable. Those are the operations that make the papers. When it doesn't work, commandos get killed just as dead as anyone else. - Michael Westen

a big difference is formal military got rules of engagement (who/when/where to shoot/not shoot) and conduct of war (geneva convention etc).

militants/terrorists tak kisah, anything goes for them.

When ppl think of commando, they think of:

So, how does someone who are not military train being so powerful that they are fear by SAS and manage to kill 2 Malaysian commando?

real life battle experience

not formally trained but trained by other terrorists with plenty of real fighting experience + religious/national fanaticism + no code of conduct = dangerous