They are lightly armed, usually only with light weapons, and wear light armour plate. They are in incredibly good physical shape, have excellent hand-eye coordination, and have a better than average awareness of thier surroundings. Because of thier skill levels, only 5% of those who apply complete the training course.
As part of thier training, the men of SpecNav learn to deal with incredibly high levels of fatigue and stress. In competitions with other special forces units, only the Stormtrooper legion's representatives showed better resilience, and that was with thier armour. That stamina is the legacy of thier time on Ralltir, which typically had eight hours of grueling, non-stop physical work every day, along with an equal number of class hours.
The men of SpecNav are trained to use any weapon or surface vehicle in production, and navigate and survive in any environment. Thier specialized training includes alpine, arctic, desert, jungle and waterborne survivability and operations. They are also trained in demolitions, security and unarmed combat. Thier wide variety of abilities makes them among the most dangerous fighting forces in history.
They are assigned to select Star Destoyers (usually Imperial-class or better), certain battle and space stations and deepdock facilities around the Empire. They typically operate in squads, and rarely in platoons. They are an independent unit when in the field, authorized to ignore orders from officers not in thier chain of command so that may preserve "mission perspective", in much the same way as ISTC forces are. As a general rule, they are seconded to the local Intelligence office for direct action missions, but they are also routinely used for boarding actions when Spacetroopers are unavailable, along surgical strikes, forward observing and kidnapping/hostage rescue missions, much like thier cousins in the Storm Commando.
Return to the Barracks