Phillipines Special Forces look like they come from 1975, but do it correct (VIDEO)
The Special Forces Regiment (Airborne) of the Philippines Army was modeled after the U.S. Green Berets to some extent, and they look pretty tough.
Formed in the 1960s, SF got broke in the hard way by supporting the Filipino contingent fighting in Vietnam but when that war ended, they were just getting warmed up. You see ever since then they have been fighting a hard knocks campaign against guerrillas in the hills from hardlegs like the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Moro National Liberation Front, the Abu Sayyaf Group, Jemaah Islamiyah, and Al Qaeda operating in the southernmost Philippine Island of Mindanao.
Organized in 20 special forces companies (with 5 parent battalions) and deploying in 12 man teams much like our own ODA “A-teams” and spend a lot of time leading local militia forces (much like the old Green Berets did in the Strategic Hamlet Program with CIDGs), the above recruiting commercial shows off a lot of dated (lets call it classic) kit such as M16A2s, M1 Garands, M60s, and old-school training and tactics.
And yes, there is tiger stripe camo cameos!
Hey, if it ain’t broke…