Forsvaret - DANEX 08 – About DANEX 08 – SSR - The Special Support and Reconnaissance Company
20. August 2008
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Main menu You are here: Engelsk > About DANEX 08 > SSR Home Page The Special Support and Reconnaissance Company News SSR – Special Support and Reconnaissance Company is the Media national special unit of the Danish Home Guard. During the cold About DANEX 08 war era SSR (then known as the Patrol Company Army SSR Operational Command) were tasked to operate as covert Long Range Surveillance Company (LRSC) in occupied Danish territories Scenario collecting tactical information for the Danish Army. Photos Contact The Patrol Company Army Operational Command (now: SSR) has Sitemap participated in DANEX exercises every year since 2005, as a patrolling and special reconnaissance unit tasked by the Royal Danish Navy. The SSR Company is able to insert a number of reconnaissance patrols over the beach and deep inland to locate and report on hostile activities ashore which may become a threat to naval operations. SSR are specialised in patrolling and special reconnaissance. Photo: SSR Trained by the Danish Frogman Corps The soldiers from SSR Company are trained and qualified by the Danish Frogman Corps (Navy Special Operations Forces) as combat swimmers together with the Danish Army Jaeger Corps (Army Special Operations Forces). The demanding combat swimmer training allows the SSR operators to be inserted over the beach and to conduct land based reconnaissance. International missions Even though SSR is an all-volunteer unit a large part of the soldiers have been on international missions over the last two years: 28 times soldiers from the SSR Company have been on international missions with the Danish Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, mostly as a part of the Danish Army Protection Teams (PSD) in Iraq.
The combat swimmers from SSR are trained by the Danish Navy Special Operations Forces. Photo: SSR
Back in 2006 soldiers from SSR were among the first to receive special training by the Danish Army Special Operations Forces and to go to Iraq as military bodyguards to protect officials from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
SSR – not meant for everybody The SSR selection course guarantees that only the best of the 50.000 volunteer Danish home guard soldiers enters the ranks of the SSR Company. The reward is unique experiences such as participating in the DANEX exercises. Read more at the SSR website Danish Defence Command - Navy Staff - Sødalsparken 20 - DK-8220 Brabrand - Telephone:+45 8943 3099 / 7285 0000 - E-mail:vfk@mil.dk - CVR. No.:16-28-71-80 - EAN:5798000201477
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