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title: "Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos"  
description: "The 21 Para SF is permanently situated in North-East and is highly trained in Counter Insurgency, Jungle Warfare and Guerrilla Warfare being the best."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1428/interesting-facts-about-indian-para-sf-commandos  
category: "defence"  
tags: ["Indian defence", "army", "para commandos", "special forces", "para SF", "commando"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos

![Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1099cc76-5ad6-4ac3-b985-bee8f64ad367/images/420ceff6-7c8c-4278-b9ba-413e4b60508d.jpeg) ![Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1099cc76-5ad6-4ac3-b985-bee8f64ad367/images/9647d341-8b8c-4a82-9456-578c7c81d31f.jpeg) The selection process for becoming a para commando is one of the longest and toughest phases in world ![Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1099cc76-5ad6-4ac3-b985-bee8f64ad367/images/ab08484f-5d47-468f-890d-6d19cc8cfd7f.jpeg) The initial training to be a special forces operator is 3.5 years, the longest anywhere in the world. ![Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1099cc76-5ad6-4ac3-b985-bee8f64ad367/images/f196b290-debe-480c-b6b0-ec18e52b89b3.jpeg) They are trained in both HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) and HAHO (High Altitude High Opening) techniques ![Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1099cc76-5ad6-4ac3-b985-bee8f64ad367/images/e162b022-05fe-4bca-a4a9-0a69707f5785.jpeg) Only the para commando forces are allowed to grow beard so that they can blend easily with civilians. ![Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1099cc76-5ad6-4ac3-b985-bee8f64ad367/images/10a781e4-b480-4a74-9fb6-c320df47be27.jpeg) The para commandos train at various military schools, such school is the Counterinsurgency and Jungle Warfare School. ![Interesting Facts about Indian PARA SF Commandos](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1099cc76-5ad6-4ac3-b985-bee8f64ad367/images/932e5e04-7901-46b8-9217-4781e69565d3.jpeg) Only the the para commandos are allowed to wear the ‘BALIDAN’ Badge.

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