PASUKAN KHAS LAUT (PASKAL)

For this posting I would introduce Pasukan Khas Laut (PASKAL) TLDM.This unit is much like US Navy Seals.I was told that this unit is the most deadly among the commandos in Malaysia.

The Royal Malaysian Navy Pasukan Khas Laut, commonly known as the PASKAL compose the Special Operations Forces of the Royal Malaysian Navy, employed in direct action and special reconnaissance operations.

PASKAL are also trained in undertaking unconventional warfare, guerrilla warfare, jungle warfare, counter-terrorism, close protection for VIPs, specific enemy assassination and hostage rescue as well as foreign internal defense.

The manpower details of this unit is highly classified. Believed to be a regiment with an estimated 1,000 mens divided into two operations units – PASKAL Unit Satu (PASKAL – First Unit) based in the Lumut Naval base in Perak on Peninsular Malaysia, and PASKAL Unit Dua (PASKAL – 2nd Unit) which is based at KD Sri Semporna, a Malaysian Royal Navy base in Semporna, Sabah. A company-strength (detachment) is also based at the Teluk Sepanggar Naval Base near Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, where the RMN’s proposed Submarine Training Centre will be set up soon.

PASKAL organises itself operationally into several squadrons of at least four companies (or Platoons) each. Each company is in turn, organised roughly along the lines of the US Green Berets’ structure of Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta Detachments. The smallest unit for PASKAL, however, is the so-called Boat Troop with 7 men.