Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales (Argentina)

Grupo Especial De Operaciones Federales (Argentina)

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Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales (Argentina)

The Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales (Federal Operations Special Group, GEOF) is a special operations

Special operations

Special operations are military operations that are considered "special" .Examples of special operations include such operations such as reconnaissance/military intelligence, unconventional warfare, and counter-terrorism actions....
division of the Argentine Federal Police

Policía Federal Argentina

The Polic?a Federal Argentina is a nationwide police force, it is the Law enforcement agency#fedlea of Argentina, with detachments in each of the country's Provinces of Argentina....
trained to strategically perform counterterrorist and counternarcotics missions. It is also used for VIP protection and hostage rescue situations.

The GEOF is a specialized police

Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
unit of the General Directorate of International Terrorism and Complex Crimes. Although the existence of special forces

Special forces

Special Forces , also known as, Special Operation Forces is a generic term for highly-trained military teams/units that conduct specialized Military operation such as reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, and counter-terrorism actions....
in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
begins in 1930, the unit was officially created after the AMIA bombing

AMIA Bombing

The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociaci?n Mutual Israelita Argentina building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, that killed 85 people and injured hundreds....
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The Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales (Federal Operations Special Group, GEOF) is a special operations

Special operations

Policía Federal Argentina

Police

Special forces

Argentina

AMIA Bombing

The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociaci?n Mutual Israelita Argentina building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, that killed 85 people and injured hundreds....
. In 1994 its first section was established in Tucumán

Tucumán

San Miguel de Tucum?n is the largest city in northern Argentina, with a population of 525,853 per the . The metropolitan area totals 806,000, making it the fifth-largest in the country....
and in 1997 a second division was constituted in Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the provinces of Argentina of Santa Fe Province, Argentina. It is located 300 km northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paran? River and has 1,025,000 residents as of the ....
. In the next year

1998

1998 was a common year starting on Thursday .The year 1998 was designated: International Year of the Ocean by UNESCO....
the Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
group was formed.

The unit's main training course stands for 20 weeks and is divided in two periods, with only 15% common approvals. Topics include sniping, HALO/HAHO parachuting

HALO/HAHO

HALO/HAHO are acronyms that describe methods of delivering personnel, equipment, and supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion....
, martial arts

Martial arts

Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. While they may be studied for various reasons, martial arts share a single objective: to physically defeat other persons and to defend oneself or others from physical threat....
, offensive driving

Driving

Driving is the controlled operation of a land vehicle, such as a automobile, truck or bus. Although direct operation of a bicycle, a mounted animal or a motorcycle is commonly called riding, such operators are usually legally considered to be drivers and are required to obey the rules of the road which apply to all drivers....
, and explosives

Explosive material

File:M112 Demolition Charge.jpgAn explosive material is a material that either is chemistry or otherwise energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material usually accompanied by the production of heat and large changes in pressure upon initiation; this is called the explosion....
, known as the "brechero" one. The GEOF constantly trains with special units of other countries like the FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the primary unit in the United States United States Department of Justice, serving as both a Law enforcement agency body and a domestic intelligence agency....
Hostage Rescue Team

Hostage Rescue Team

The Hostage Rescue Team is the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's elite Special Operations tactical and counterterrorism S.W.A.T....
, the US Army

United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
Green Berets

United States Army Special Forces

The United States Army Special Forces is a Special Operations Force of the United States Army tasked with five primary missions: unconventional warfare , foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action , and counter-terrorism....
and numerous SWAT

SWAT

SWAT are elite tactical units in American police departments. Similar organizations in other areas are South Australian Special Tasks and Rescue, London's Specialist Firearms Command and Thunder Squad....
groups. The GEOF has full powers in all the country, and that's because the unit has been nicknamed 4T (todo tiempo-todo terreno, all time-all land).

Equipment

Heckler & Koch USP
Heckler & Koch USP

The USP is a semi-automatic pistol developed in Germany by Heckler & Koch of Oberndorf am Neckar as a replacement for the expensive and somewhat complex Heckler & Koch P7 series of handguns....
Heckler & Koch MP5
Heckler & Koch MP5

The MP5 is a 9x19mm Parabellum submachine gun of Germany design, developed in the 1960s by a team of engineers from the West Germany arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch of Oberndorf am Neckar....
SG 550
SPAS 12
M4A1 carbine
Carbine

A carbine is a firearm similar to a rifle or musket, but generally shorter and of lesser power. Many carbines, especially modern designs, were developed from rifles, being essentially shortened versions of full rifles firing the same ammunition, although often at a lower velocity....
Remington 700P

Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales (Argentina)

Equipment

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