Introduction to the Chinese Lion Commandos

Similar to the internationally renowned SEAL and Snow Leopard commandos, the Henan Armed Police Corps' direct detachment also has an international special operations elite - the Lion Commando. This is the only armed police special operations commando team in Henan Province that integrates anti-terrorism, emergency response, rescue, ambulance, and reconnaissance. In recent years, they have won 12 team first places and more than 40 individual first places in various special operations competitions across the country.

The Lion Commando Team, which has more than a hundred people, has very strict age requirements for each team member during selection, basically between 20 and 25 years old. The commando team is selected once a year. Special forces members are usually specially recruited from martial arts schools or selected from the ranks of new recruits. Their physical fitness and courage are first-rate.

Then, they will organize a centralized closed training camp for half a year, during which they will be eliminated once a month. From the more than 100 elites selected, only 20 people can stay in the end. After joining the professional commando team, team members are organized to go deep into wild mountains and other environments that are close to actual combat every year, and conduct "Devil Week" training to strengthen the teamwork ability, personal willpower and wild survival ability of the special operations team members.

The training subjects of the Lion Commando are divided into emergency rescue, ambush and sniper attack, five-person team swimming with heavy loads, water fighting, shooting, physical fitness, etc. For indoor hostage rescue training, the commando team is required to complete the entire set of actions of breaking into the room, locking on the target, and killing with one blow within 2 seconds.

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As the only special operations unit of the Henan Provincial Armed Police Corps that integrates anti-terrorism and reconnaissance, over the years, it has successfully completed various duties, emergency response and In the anti-terrorism mission, the Corps has been rated as a "Pacemaker Squadron" for 14 consecutive years, and has been awarded the second-class collective merit 3 times and the third-class merit 9 times; 9 officers and soldiers have been awarded the second-class merit, 92 have been awarded the third-class merit, 29 Each class team won third-class collective merit, and seven outstanding class leaders were recommended for admission.

In order to implement combat readiness requirements and be ready for battle at all times, the unit continues to strengthen research on "anti-terrorism" and "anti-hijacking" tactics, conduct scientific training, and rule by law. In response to the increasingly heavy counter-terrorism situation, the reconnaissance platoon focused on basic skills operation training. During the training, it explored six reconnaissance methods including "hiding, concealment, confusion, resistance, counterattack, and harassment" to improve the accuracy of reporting capabilities of officers and soldiers.

Reference materials:

Lion commando kills thugs in 2 seconds - China Military Network