German commando course

• SERE-skills
• Small unit tactics

• Instructor certification for previously acquired skills
• Leadership and advanced infantry minor tactics.
• Guerrilla warfare fundamentals

  Sample schedule for basic course

• Arrival
• 3000m track and obstacle course, classroom instruction, receiving firearms, briefing
• Relocating to training area, speedy march, training in camouflage and firearms, transporting wounded soldiers
• Classroom instruction, navigation exercise in day and night
• 3000m track and obstacle course, instruction in knots

• 3000m track, obstacle course, ambushing, hand-to-hand fighting
• Rappelling, Zodiac boats, ambushing
• Rappelling, crossing rivers, hand-to-hand fighting, obstacle course
• Hand-to-hand fighting, obstacle course

• Camouflage, hand-to-hand fighting, obstacle course, night navigation exercise, setting up bivouac
• SERE exercise
• 24-hour exercise including transportation of wounded soldiers
• Survival skills, hand-to-hand fighting
• Hand-to-hand fighting

• Final exercises, 70 km march
• Debriefing, awarding of Einzelkämpfer patch by commander

  Sample schedule for advanced course

• Arrival
• Introduction, initial physical fitness test
• Training in firearms and equipment, classroom instruction
• Hand-to-hand fighting, land navigation, parachute jump
• Hand-to-hand fighting

• Relocation to Sauwald, instruction in handling explosives, instruction in ambushing, map reading
• Rock climbing in Füssen
• Basics of commando actions
• Ambushing
• Commando exercise
• Hand-to-hand fighting

• Rock climbing
• Briefing, relocating to training area
• Infiltration, evasion, reconnaissance, ambushing
• Evasion and escaping, extraction, debriefing
• Written test, test for hand-to-hand combat instructor

• Written test, commando warfare, briefing
• Evasion, reconnaissance, ambush
• Evasion, using hideouts and alternative hideouts
• Debriefing
• Hand-to-hand fighting, urban warfare

• Briefing, relocation to training area
• Establishing hideouts, reconnaissance, ambushing
• Debriefing
• Returning equipment
• Awarding of Einzelkämpfer patch, end of course

  Einzelkämpferabzeichen

Comparable courses

• Ranger school
• All Arms Commando Course