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The Jaeger Corps is composed of around 150 highly trained soldiers with special expertise in counter-terrorism, demolitions, parachuting, and combat swimming, HAHO and HALO parachuting, infiltration, sabotage, reconnaissance and more.
The Special Operations Command (Danish: Specialoperationskommandoen; SOKOM) is a command of the Danish Armed Forces and a part of the Defence Command.SOKOM was established in 2014 to bring the Jaeger Corps (Danish: Jægerkorpset) and the Frogman Corps (Danish: Frømandskorpset) under one command.
Jäger, or Jaeger, is the German word for "hunter", and describes a kind of light infantry. [1] ... Alpine Corps (1st, 2nd & 3rd Jäger Regiments) 1916.
In the modern day Danish army, Jæger is used for the special forces unit Jægerkorpset (Jaeger Corps). In 2019, the 13th Light Infantry Battalion was created at the Haderslev garrison as the only regular light infantry unit in the army as part of the reborn Slesviske Fodregiment.
Thomas Rathsack is a lecturer and former member of the Danish Jaeger Corps. [1] He served with the Royal Life Guards as a sergeant before getting accepted into the Jaeger Corps in 1990. [1] After retiring from the army he worked as a photographer and IT specialist. He reenlisted after the September 11 attacks. [1]
Johann von Ewald (20 March 1744 – 25 June 1813) was a German military officer from Hesse-Kassel.After first serving in the Seven Years' War, he was the commander of the Jäger corps of the Hessian Leib Infantry Regiment attached to British forces in the American Revolutionary War. [1]
During the winter of 1777-1778, Creuzbourg's Jäger Corps was quartered in the area southeast of Montreal. In August 1778 at least one company was based around Terrebonne. The winter of 1779-1780 was spent in cantonment at La Prairie. During the summer of 1781, the corps formed the Québec garrison situated across the St-Lawrence at Pointe-de ...
CoA Pre-1961 name Post-1961 name Established Disbanded Notes Ref. Royal Life Guards: 1658 Still active 1st Regiment Danish Life Regiment: 1763 1 January 2001