Pentagon commander says US special forces in India

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10. He must be talking about the US special forces training in India

Both countries cross train their special forces in each others training institutions.

Even though this has been mostly kept under wraps/low key; India and America have heavily stepped up joint training exercises in the past decade.


American Special forces train in counter insurgency and Jungle warfare in India's CIJW (Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare) school in the jungles of Mizoram, a state near the Burmese border. US Army Rangers, Green Berets and other select units send their men here for training.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-insurgency_and_Jungle_Warfare_School

The Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJW) in Vairengte, Mizoram, India is a training and research establishment of the Indian Army specializing in unconventional warfare, especially counter-insurgency and guerrilla warfare. CIJW is one of the premier counter-insurgency training institutions in the world

pictures from such exercises are generally not released to the public. However here are some found in the public Domain.

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India to train US 'Green Berets' in jungle warfare

GUWAHATI, India (AFP) — A contingent of US Special Forces, or Green Berets, will team up with Indian soldiers to train in jungle warfare, officials said on Saturday.

The 30-member US team will train in the army-run Counter-Insurgency Jungle Warfare School from August 2 in the rebellion-torn northeastern state of Mizoram, they said.

"The training schedule involves methodologies to tackle terrorism and low intensity conflicts," an Indian commander said on condition he was not named.

An equal number of Indian military personnel will team up with the visiting Green Berets at the school where some 250 US soldiers had been trained in the past four years.

"The US soldiers would share their experiences in tackling urban terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, while the Indians would pass on their tactics used in Kashmir and other parts of the northeast," he added.

more here
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0Ir_CYAZjsUeOoOQrrXCEff2wNA

^^ this was dated 2008, from what I hear joint training tempo has been heavily ratcheted up in the past few years.



some more pics

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An Indian-U.S. Special Forces team races to board an Indian Air Force Mi-17 helicopter for combined heliborne operations

more pictures here
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?21973-Counter-Insurgency-Training-excercise-CIJWS