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August 4, 2016 John Friberg USSOCOM 0

Special Operations Command South (SOCSouth) and 1-228th Aviation (Joint Task Force Bravo) recently conducted a training exercise with some specialized units of Belize. In late July the U.S. personnel worked with the Belize Special Assignment Group (BSAG) and Belize Coast Guard (BCG) executing Fast Rope Insertion and Extraction (FRIES), helicast operation, open water hoist training, and use of the Jacaobs Ladder. Read more in “1-228th AVN, SOCSOUTH enhance Belizean CTOC capabilities” ,  Joint Task Force – Bravo Public Affairs,  August 3, 2016.

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“The regular soldier cannot just go into the BSAG. When you finish your recruit training we look at your skill-set, we look at your ability to learn, your aptitude and then there is a test after two years where you serve with a regular infantry unit and then you get selected to go to a special unit…BSAG is one of them. There is a selection process where the fitness level of these guys has to be superior to the regular soldier. Their marksmanship has to be superior to the rest…their ability to learn quickly, adapt and do special type operations is tested and based on their performance then they get selected. They get selected to do the entry training into BSAG. Now that training is much tougher than our recruit training and much tougher than what the regular soldiers will do. If they survive that training then they get accepted into the BSAG. BSAG is our Special Forces unit. This unit was created about seven years ago primarily for terrorism training, for any terrorist attack that might happen in Belize or any high risk or dangerous operations – hostage rescue, search and rescue, these guys are our elite forces. A soldier is trained to kill, and these guys in the Special Forces are trained to do it even more efficiently, or even better. And this is why this unit was created. And we are enhancing their training ability…they have been training with the US Special Forces for the past almost seven years now…Now the US Special Forces and the Canadian Special Forces work closely together, and since we work closely with the Canadians as well, there is a hand off for a period where the Canadians are willing to come and train and continue the training with these Special Forces that we have at least for the next three years. So starting last month, Canadian Special forces are going to be training our BSAG for the next three years.”

Successful BSAG members also go through extensive background checks to determine if there is a propensity for criminal behavior, even polygraph testing.

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1-228th AVN, SOCSOUTH enhance Belizean CTOC capabilities

Photo By Master Sgt. Siuta Ika | A UH-60L Black Hawk assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo’s 1st Battalion, 228th... ... read more read more

Photo By Master Sgt. Siuta Ika | A UH-60L Black Hawk assigned to Joint Task Force-Bravo’s 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment positions a flight paramedic to extract a role player acting as a patient during an open water hoist training scenario off the coast of Belize District, July 21, 2016. The 1-228th AVN’s U.S. Air Ambulance Detachment Honduras handles all of the battalion’s aeromedical operations, which include both training partner nations and providing real-world MEDEVAC capabilities throughout Central America. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Siuta B. Ika)   see less | View Image Page

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BELIZE DISTRICT – Joint Task Force-Bravo’s 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment deployed UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters to conduct a variety of training scenarios throughout the Belize District with members of the Belize Special Assignment Group and Belize Coast Guard -- who were supported by members of Special Operations Command South -- July 18 through 21. The BSAG, BCG, SOCSOUTH and 1-228th AVN personnel executed Fast Rope Insertion and Extraction System (FRIES) training, helocast operations and recovery with the Jacobs Ladder, and open water hoist training in order to increase the capabilities of the Belizean forces to conduct counter-transnational organized crime operations within their land and maritime borders. U.S. Army Capt. Paul Peterson, 1-228th AVN assistant operations officer, said that although the training event was a great step for the BSAG and BCG members to become proficient in helicopter operations, he thinks a bigger benefit for our partners came in the form of planning and operating with outside air assets. “Throughout the training event we went into briefs together and they asked us questions to learn how we operate, so learning the mission-planning process was important to them,” Peterson said. Peterson also said the training was equally beneficial for the pilots and crews because of the qualifications gained, and the experience of working with partner nation ground and maritime forces. The U.S. Ambassador to Belize, Carlos Moreno, witnessed a training scenario first hand and praised the cooperation between all of the military forces. “These kinds of partnerships are essential in maintaining a good, productive relationship, and ultimately serves to protect American interests abroad and on the mainland,” Moreno said. “Anytime you develop a partnership like this, it really serves to tighten those bonds and it mutually supports what we both want to accomplish here.”

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Category : Belize Special Assignment Group

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Belize Special Assignment Group

The Belize Special Assignment Group or BSAG for short or B-SAG is a special unit of the Belize Defense Force . It is used primarily in the fight against the drug routes through Central America. In 2010, the unit was also involved in a mission in Haiti for the first time outside the country . [1]

Little is known about the equipment except that ten Ford F350 pick-ups, sponsored by the US government , are used by BSAG. [2]

Controversy

On February 22, 2018, seven BSAG soldiers and a police officer from the Special Patrol Unit stormed a house to recover a cell phone that had been reported as stolen. They killed a woman and seriously injured a man when they did not hand over the phone. The eight defendants were in custody arrested and the judge in Orange Walk Magistrate Court in Orange Walk Town demonstrated. The security forces were charged with murder. [3] In September 2018, all eight men were released because the court files could not be found. [4]

• Drug War Next Door? Belize's Plan: Patrol the Border and Hope for the Best von Nick Miroff (englisch)

Individual evidence

• ^ Belize Defense Force Open Day. Retrieved March 11, 2012 .
• ↑ Handing-Over Ceremony for the Ten Ford F-350 Pick-up Trucks to the Belize Defense Force. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 15, 2011 ; Retrieved March 11, 2012 .
• ↑ Andrea Polanco: 8 to Court for Murder, Attempted Murder in OW Beating. February 26, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 .
• ↑ SEVEN B.D.F SOLDIERS WALK, CASE FILE NOT AVAILABLE. 26. September 2018, abgerufen am 9. November 2018 (englisch).

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Camouflage Designs worn in Belize

• The standard working uniform of the BDF was for many years a mixture of olive green and woodland camouflage seen here.

• The Belize Special Assignment Group (BSAG), a special operations unit tasked primarily with counter-narcotics duties, has recently been documented wearing uniforms in Multicam pattern camouflage.

• First adopted in 2011, a copy of the Russian Armed Forces' green pixelated design is now the standard camouflage pattern of the Belize Defence Force. Its adoption was spurred by the fact that woodland pattern camouflage uniforms were too easy for the general public to obtain, thus conflicting with a national mandate making it illegal for citizens to own military issue clothing.

• Members of the Special Boat Unit (SBU) - a special unit under the Air Wing - have worn a woodland camouflage with a blue colorway in recent years. This has since been replaced with a digital pattern.

• Some units of the Belize Defense Force, including the Special Boat Unit (SBU), the Anti-Drug Unit, and the newly formed Navy SEAL Team of the Coast Guard, wear a pixelated design similar to that of the US Navy. This has replaced the previously worn blue " woodland " pattern design.

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