If They Have Won It, Let Them Take It

By gaining first-hand experience or rather – so to say – by becoming the sufferers of experience, the participants of the training sessions conducted in the vicinity of Táborfalva are given an insight into the selection, training and mission-related activities of the soldiers serving with the battalion. Of course, these four days can give no more than an insight, but they realized on the first morning that this brief insight may be more than they can bear. After a four-and-a-half-hour selection and military PT session, the young people – who left the comfortable civilian life to “get into the clutches" of the Special Forces soldiers – became aware of their so far “unknown" muscles. Pain and tiredness are, however, not useless things – as the command sergeant major of the unit told them at the morning briefing – but are rather an organic part of the Special Forces Qualification Course, and are even more than that: they help us know and sometimes overcome our limits, which is indispensable for survival on real-world battlefields.

The training included military land navigation on October 8, and continued with an introduction to the weapons used by the battalion and small unit tactics (SUT) on October 9.

Photo: Veronika Dévényi