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THE FIRST EVER SPECIAL FORCES FOR THE SADF STARTED WITH A SMALL GROUP OF ELEVEN MEN UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMANDANT JAN BREYTENBACH, ALL HANDPICKED BY HIM IN 1970. THEY COMMENCED THEIR TRAINING IN OUDTSHOORN AND ALL 11 MEN DID SPECIALISED COURSES IN SOMETHING THEY WERE NOT QUALIFIED FOR IN AS YET. E.G. DIVERS, DEMOLITION, PARACHUTE JUMPING. ETC. THE GROUP WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO AND ALSO DID COURSES IN FRANCE IN THAT YEAR. THEIR FIRST DEPLOYMENT TOOK PLACE INTO ANGOLA. WITH THE INFLUX OF MORE MEMBERS, THE GROUP WAS CHANGED TO A SPECIAL FORCES UNIT IN 1972 KNOWN AS 1 RECONNAISSANCE COMMANDO.