French Marine Commando de Montfort & Jaubert, Groupement des Commandos Parachutistes

[Ralf174978]

Video of the French Marine Commando Jaubert
http://www.youtube.com/v/a9j-J2U77I0

Video of the French Marine Commando de Montfort from an exercise in Djibouti 2002
http://www.youtube.com/v/Fi88kYSLwdY

Video of the GCP (Le Groupement des Commandos Parachutistes) from an exercise in Turkey, November 2003
http://www.youtube.com/v/9ejoFj2ogM0

[Genre]

WOW the second video is very good and good footage :) , the third does not function, "the second video one is well, the third does not function" :/

[Ralf174978]

the third does not functionNow it works.

[fantomas]

interesting to see French special units using the ARs not the Famas. great videos man.

[larryzou]

great videos thanks man

[saladin]

Video of the GCP (Le Groupement des Commandos Parachutistes) from an exercise in Turkey, November 2003


I think this video is from the first NATO Response Force exercise. Here is the website
http://www.nato.int/shape/news/2003/11/i031121a.htm
Here is the additional video

http://www.nato.int/shape/multi/video/2003/v031121/v031121a.wmv

[winchester_down]

......shame about the poor camel though:cantbeli:

[DieselPower]

yeah lol that camel had absolutely no idea... video 2 is excellent 5 Stars!

[rjbhutton]

Great videos. woot

Jaubert and de Montfort are different "commando" regiments? Can you provide some background about how they fit in the French OOB/ORBAT? Presumably they are under the Navy... are they like 40/42/45 Commando of the 3rd BDE Royal Marines?

[AROUETLJ]

Great videos. woot

Jaubert and de Montfort are different "commando" regiments? Can you provide some background about how they fit in the French OOB/ORBAT? Presumably they are under the Navy... are they like 40/42/45 Commando of the 3rd BDE Royal Marines?

Righto, here goes:

The French Navy special forces component is made up of five "Commandos", a Commando being a company-sized unit in this case. The five Commandos are (with their specialisation):

Commando Hubert - combat swimmer/MCT/SDV
Commando de Montfort - NGSFO and CAS ops/heavy wepons
Commando Jaubert - VBSS/NEO and MCT with the ECMC (now apparently called ECTLO) as part of the unit
Commando Trepel - VBSS and NEO
Commando de Penfentenyo - beach recce/recce in general

That's basically it. There are from 82 to 102 members in each Commando. And there's a "Cellule Tactique Projetable" (Forward Tactical HQ) which acts as the link between the Commandos and COS during operations.

[Keith]

Great videos. woot

Jaubert and de Montfort are different "commando" regiments? Can you provide some background about how they fit in the French OOB/ORBAT? Presumably they are under the Navy... are they like 40/42/45 Commando of the 3rd BDE Royal Marines?

approx yeap...they have common history and trad .(green beret for exemple the first french naval codo was created in Uk during the wwII)
but AFAIK may be french teams are more focus on special ops like the SBS.

The French Naval Commandos units are under command of the Force Maritime des Fusiliers Marins et Commandos (FORFUSCO) in Lorient. It is headed by an officer with the title of Commandement des Fusiliers Marins et Commandos (COFUSCO).

The naval SF units are the Marine Commandos ( Commandos de Marine). These are
divided into five units (fr: commandos. The term commando can mean both unit and soldier):
Hubert, Jaubert, Trepel, De Penfentenyo and De Montfort. The total number of all these
commandos (soldier) is approx. 500 members. Each commando (unit) is composed of about 80 men,divided into four sections with 20 elements each.

• Jaubert: Assault at sea, exfiltration, fight in enclosed spaces at sea.
• Trepel: Assault at sea, exfiltration.
• de Penfentenyo: Reconnaissance, intelligence operations.
• de Montfort: Distance neutralisation, special back-ups.
• Hubert: Submarine action, combat divers.

+ the GCMC: Groupe de Combat en Milieu Clos ("Combat Group in Closed Areas"), naval counter-terrorism. created in 1994.
This group, like the B-section of the Commando Hubert is trained for naval assault missions; for example the releasing of vessels taken in control by terrorists.

All of these commandos, except for Hubert, are located in Lorient. Commando Hubert is situated in Saint Mandrier.

Add around 1000 fusiliers marins ("naval rifleman") in charge of the security of french vessels and navals bases.

[rjbhutton]

Great stuff, thanks for the informative replies! Can you help me out with some of the acronyms:
VBSS; ECTLO/ECMC; MCT/SDV; NGSFO and CAS ops (Close Air Support? like Forward Observers for air?)?
NEO I assume is Noncombatant Evacuation Ops...

[AROUETLJ]

Great stuff, thanks for the informative replies! Can you help me out with some of the acronyms:
VBSS; ECTLO/ECMC; MCT/SDV; NGSFO and CAS ops (Close Air Support? like Forward Observers for air?)?
NEO I assume is Noncombatant Evacuation Ops...

Sorry for the acronyms.

VBSS = Vessel Boarding, Search and Seizure (it's a US term)
ECTLO = Escouade de Contre Terrorisme et de Libération d'Otages (Counter-terrorist and Hostage Rescue Team)
ECMC = Escouade de Combat en Milieu Clos (Close Quarter Combat Team)
MCT = Maritime Counter-Terrorism
SDV = Swimmer Delivery Vehicle
NGSFO = Naval Gunfire Support Forward Observer
CAS = Close Air Support
NEO = Noncombatant Evacuation Operations

[rjbhutton]

Sorry for the acronyms.

VBSS = Vessel Boarding, Search and Seizure (it's a US term)
ECTLO = Escouade de Contre Terrorisme et de Libération d'Otages (Counter-terrorist and Hostage Rescue Team)
ECMC = Escouade de Combat en Milieu Clos (Close Quarter Combat Team)
MCT = Maritime Counter-Terrorism
SDV = Swimmer Delivery Vehicle
NGSFO = Naval Gunfire Support Forward Observer
CAS = Close Air Support
NEO = Noncombatant Evacuation Operations

Thx. I couldn't remember the VBSS one, but knew what it meant. I recognize SDV now... knew CAS and NEO, but the others are new to me. Thanks for spelling out! :cantbeli:

What's the French equivalent of "Hooah!"

[Keith]

AROUETLJ thks for the acronyms

btw Flying froggies
I now poor qual but love it !
90' training in brest and djibouti

[AROUETLJ]

What's the French equivalent of "Hooah!"

Ah, there you touch upon a cultural difference between French and US forces. You'd have to ask our French forum members, but I think the closest would be "Vive la Royale". Commandos Marine, however, are not usually known for their vocal regimental slogans. In one documentary where they show a group of freshly-badged (or 'bereted') Commandos-Marine, there was a bagpipe player, and that was that.

[rjbhutton]

Ah, there you touch upon a cultural difference between French and US forces. You'd have to ask our French forum members, but I think the closest would be "Vive la Royale". Commandos Marine, however, are not usually known for their vocal regimental slogans. In one documentary where they show a group of freshly-badged (or 'bereted') Commandos-Marine, there was a bagpipe player, and that was that.

ha ha! Doesn't surprise me! I think Hooah comes from "huzzah", a British cheer... but now I'm getting off topic.. sorry!

[Eddy]

ha ha! Doesn't surprise me! I think Hooah comes from "huzzah", a British cheer... but now I'm getting off topic.. sorry!

Huzzah in french is translated by hourra wich I guess hurray came from

[Cedan]

hey Ralf, do you have any video of dinops? Sadly you her so little of them :(

[Ralf174978]

hey Ralf, do you have any video of dinops? Sadly you her so little of them :(No, I don't have any videos of the DINOPS. The videos of the Commando Jaubert and Commando de Montfort are available in higher resolution - but for YouTube I have to reduce the size. Only videos with max. 100 MB are allowed. The original videos on my PC have 101 and 176 MB.

[rjbhutton]

Huzzah in french is translated by hourra wich I guess hurray came from

Ah, OK... interesting. thanks... now I'm trying to wrack my brain about the cheer that the British paras used during WWII based on some crimean war event or something... any idea what I'm talking about? (me neither!!:oops: )

[Cedan]

No, I don't have any videos of the DINOPS. The videos of the Commando Jaubert and Commando de Montfort are available in higher resolution - but for YouTube I have to reduce the size. Only videos with max. 100 MB are allowed. The original videos on my PC have 101 and 176 MB.

you can upload to video.google.com they accept large files

[Icarus1]

Great videos. Thanks for them. I specially liked the GCP video.

I was recently on a shooting course where a guy from Commandos Marine (Commando Trepel) was participating too. Very impressive guy. Cold and calm, but had this deadly aura around him. Funny thing was, he knew one of the guys from my company who was i Trepel too. The world is a village :-)