Austrian Special Forces - Jagdkommando (Marine Reacts) 

SF Neighbors. A must see - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G5ZpmZ7qBRU.html.

Greetings from austria. And also, don't believe those automatically generated subtitles. Those are the worst i've seen so far.

A Jagdkommando soldier was awarded the Bronze Star "V" for saving 17 coalition soldiers during the 2015 attack on Camp Integrity.

Great military Austrian brothers! Cheers from Hungary! 🇦🇹❤🇭🇺

They really gave that journalist the VIP treatment! Guys seem proud of what they do!

WTF at 0:43 he says: Hello and welcome to "WIENER NEUSTADT", but the Subtitles says Germany! Wiener Neustadt is a City 30 Miles from Vienna in AUSTRIA not Germany!

As for the age of the two men early in the clip: The one with the gray mustache is the commanding officer of the Jagdkommando, a colonel, the guy who asks the questions is a 48 year old radio host, he is a civilian.

Cheers to our Austrian neighbors! 🇨🇭🍻🇦🇹

i am from Austria , never wouldve thought that an american would react on our little military

"Jagd" means hunt in English. Huntcommando. Pretty badass!

These guys are another level of professional, I've never worked with them but they seem like an extremely effective force, that mustache just sells it💯💯

Two times they won the price as best special operators in the world!

Cpt. Price from Austria!!🤣😜 Salute from Vienna!!

Being Austrian, I am sad to not have seen the high alpine training and operations. A story, maybe a tale, I have heard from someone within the military was that a group of US military joined the Austrians in high alpine training. The US soldiers (of course swole AF) poked fun at the Austrians for being rather skinny. Then when it came to hiking and climbing up mountain ranges, one after another US soldier had to give in and admit that being jacked doesnt mean that you automatically are performing better in these kind of scenarios. As I said, might have been tale :)

Austrians are old warriors nation! During the history, we were enemies (WW1, WW2) and alies (againts Turkey 15.-19. century). Respect from Serbia🇷🇸

1:53 “NUMQUAM RETRO” is such a badass motto. It means “Never Retreat”.

Steyr AUG main weapon. Austria makes great firearms. Steyr, Glock, etc.

Many special forces from other countries come to Austria and train and learn with and from the Jagdkommando. you also need to react to the Austrian Cobra. Its one of the best special police forces in the world!

Just came home from a drill with these guys, really friendly guys lots of mutual respect

Great reaction. I served for 4 years in the austrian army and we also trained with other military forces from many countrys. We learned a lot from american forces and there was this guy (sergant first class if i remember right) who runs the hellish trainingparcour (in Langenlebarn-Fliegerhorst Brumowski - not this one in the video) with us 2times a row and then fired a whole magazine of the STG77 over a target 100m away and didnt miss a single shot. I was so exhausted and shaky that i was happy to hold my rifle in the right direction, only hit one time :-)..absolut badass this guy..much respect to the american soldiers..nice guys too

Just to be correct. The unmasked dude at 0:18 with the head, like a red beet is a radio/tv reporter who trains a day or so with the Jagdkommando. Just in case you were wondering if the austrian military has soldiers with high blood pressure in their elite forces...

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Österreich🇦🇹

7:14 I've been in the austrian military and this is exactly what I experienced: despite my beliefs, the few jagdkommando-members I was lucky to meet during my time were never bulky, but rather wiry in their bodily shape. Always thought that they must be mountains of muscles but that's not the case

You know this dude with the mustache is Oberst dG Horst Hofer (Colonel OF-5) and was the Commander of the Jagtkommando from 2008 to 2019

Austria has had a bad ass history me being german I've always found the Austrian milltiary to be pretty tough

Yes finally i hope one day I'll join them Love your content from Austria

My brother was in 2000er years in the jako group, he was a very stong guy 👦! Best wishes from austria 🇦🇹

I applied to the Jagdkommando back in the day. You get 9 months basic training first, then 1 year extended training which serves as selection process, 1 hellweek where you also get tortured and make an escape simulationg being a prisoner of war, and if you pass all of that it is 3 years Jagdkommando training and at the end of it 1 year in your chosen speciality before you are really done. (Sniper, Combat diver, etc.) So before you are fully "Jagdkommando" you have roughly 6 years from start to finish. I must say though i already failed the physical due to a skin condition -.- My uncle made it in and lost 3 toes to frostbite during alpine training (speciality)

These guys are bad ass operators....trust me. We met a team in Shitcanistan. They all spoke English, and they were f**king war studs. Glad they were on our side.

we have a small army .. but our army is very strong . one of the best special forces on this world . cobra and jagdkommando are very good . if u have problems in a far land and pirates or terrorists try to keep u there our army come to save us .and if they come they dont talk...

Semper FI, @jamesons - thx for showing us this and and your service.

Im from Austria and i really liked your reaction great video.

The Austrian army is part militia, including Jagdkommando soldiers. The militia is exempt from grooming standards. It's a pity they didn't show the real Jagdkommando training. Especially the high mountain training is much more impressive than the scenes shown here. But of course these kinds of videos are made to attract new soldiers, so they tend not to show the hard stuff.

Salute to you and our elite unit, from an active austrian tank operator 🤙🏽

00:44 he doesnt say "welcome to germany" , he says welcome to "wiener neustadt". thats a place in eastern austria where the jagdkommando has a base. the austro-german slang for deutschland is = deitschlond thats pretty similar to "neistodt" (slang for wiener neustadt) and the auto-translator failed with our slang :)

Jäger ( hunter) is the generic term for light infantry units in german Fallschirmjäger are paratrooper , Gebirgsjäger means light infantry specialized in mountain warfare. Both the Danish ( Jaegerkorpset) as well as the Austrians ( Jagdkommando) call their Special Ops units translated as Huntercorps( Danish) or Huntcommando( Austrian)

The name Jagtkommando goes back to a cople of tratitions some dating back as far as the early 18th century. Back then the german speaking nations like hessia saxoni prussia and the austrian empire, among others reciuted light infantry troops for skirmishing, securing the flanks, recon and other tasks like that. They had to work independently, and had to be good shots familiar with the use of rifles. The military of the time thought people that guy that used similar skills in there provesional life would be perfect as such soilders and manly recuited profesional hunters (jäger in german) and therefore called them jäger. This concept was picked up by britain in the mid 18th century turing the french and indian war and seven years war witch lead to the founding of diverend ranger bataillons like the famous rogers rangers. At that time many of the members of these rangers where of german origin since quite a few of the settlers where german even at that time. But that might be less suprising concidering that the king was of german origin him selfe. Inspite of the success of the rangers in america they where suspendet with the end of the war. But the concept continued to flowrish in europe. In austria the border to the ottoman emire was where we had the grenzjäger that where also admired by napolen him selfe when the later fought aginst him turing the revolution and later napoleonic wars. Turing the the war of independence the german troops that where send over to america from the english kings possesions in germany and his allies there hat a large condingent of Jägers with them witch lead to the founding of the 60th (american) rifles, that ironicaly was almost exclusivly german for most of it's haydays, the famous 95th that later gained fame turing wellingtons spanish campaing and refounding of rogers rangers as queens rangers. Thes regiments where very sucsessfull but the most feared where "hessian" Jägers allthough most where from hanover. Many of them chanced sides and became part of what is the nucleus of todays US Army Rangers. In austria the grenzjäger did not survive the demice of the ottoman empire on the balkans and the army reforms of the late 19th century but the name and traditions connected with it where picked up for the austrian equivilalent of the sturmtruppen in ww1. And then after 1945 the bundesheer picked that name because of the ww1 glorry that came with it and the conection to all the earlier Jägers for its SF regiment.

I was just scrolling through your videos when that mustache ordered me to click and subscribe

I am an austrian and the operator with this awesome mustache, is the comander of this SF, his rank is colonel at the time this video was done a few years ago. Now I think he is General (1 star) and commander of a brigade in austria.

Love the Austrians good people.

One often say that the military in Austria is small and compared to other countries it trouly is. Our Main battle tanks Leopard 2 A4 are old and just in duty to keep the knowledge of tank warfare, same in artillery and so on. BUT we have some really bad ass specialists, and compared to the ammount of inhabitants of our country we have a big pool of reservists and the infrastructure for them as well. Thanks for that video! We are proud of our boys!

0:43 "Hello Robert and welcome here at the Austrian Jagdkommando." Subtitle: Welcome to Germany...

It's funny and really cool that our special forces from the little austria is recognized in the big world out there :D

Austrians are chads, greetings from Bosnia🇧🇦🇦🇹

btw, the subtitles said "welcome to germany", but it should be "welcome to wiener neustadt" which is the austrian city which they left from in the beginning.

The video „Tagwache mit Kratky“ was a Series of Videos to show what the parts of the Austrian Army do.

Man am I glad I’m not a tire in Austria 🇦🇹

Love how at the start they translate Wiener Neustadt to "welcome to germany" bruh

The operator with the beard you called old is a fullcolonel, maybe thats why. :-) Doorkickers here are as young as in the US.

Their ancestors have. Warrior blood Thanks for the likes most I ever got

The guy in the video: Hallo und herzlich willkommen in „Wiener Neustadt „ 🇦🇹 Subtitle: GeRmAnY

The "old operator" is an famous austrian radiohost, who visit the jagtkommando as a part of an show about the austrian army ... 😉

he is a beloved Austrian reporter. They are having fun with him

Idk but the german language is just perfekt for war. Jagdkommando = Hunting Commando Feldjäger = Field Hunters Fallschirm-/Gebirgsjäger = Parachute-/Mountain hunters They really like hunting their enemies lol

Austrian German vs Google translate ... got a good chuckle at the subtitles. You haven't seen Cobra (also Austrian) in action.

The short boat scene was from Croatia - the ferry is a “Jadrolinija” one - state-owned company which runs the ferry lines to all of the Croatian islands.

Thank you. Another excellent video and great commentary.

Miss it all some days. Remember seeing few SAS guys when I was in Iraq. They rolled up to our FOBs front check point in a old station wagon lol what a piece shit it was. But much respect to the special forces around the world.

A new recruit off the street can sign a special forces contract. Basic Infantry training>Airborne school>SF selection > Qualification course. I joined in 1998 and now I'm retired...in all of that time I have only met 1 person that made it through. He joined as an E1 and by the time he was done with training (3 years later) he was an E5 (Sergeant) promotable.

Saw these guys when I was in the military in austria and a few friends worked with them in the military and tried out as recruits They are really something else... and just like the case with most SFs what you see on the documentaries is very tame compared to the actual thing when there are no cameras

The reason why the dude with the stache looks so old is simply because he is a Colonel and the Commander of the Unit. The guys there are not older than in other sf units, they just have a commander that looks hella cool and is still really fit.

2:31 - Yeah, wrong country there buddy!

Thank You for this Video, it was great as always👍💪

We know that we're living in a small country, but we have an very powerful Army and me as an retired WO, who has spented 6 years in Syria, Bosnia and Cyprus 4 this Army and I was working with the US Soldiers together so many years, yes I know that your guys doing very well 👍

Really impressed with these guys. Good stuff again Sir.

The older guys you see in this video are the commanders and those serving since many years , its tv stuff after all . Most applicants to the Jagdkommando are actually around 18 years old and give it a go during national service . After the entry test there is a 6 month basic training course and after this course they go straight into the SF selection course . The Jagdkommando is derived from the US Rangers wich trained a few officers i believe in the 60s or 70s . With the combined knowledge they created an austrian way to do things . Our police special unit has a similar story, as the swat way wasnt really working for us but provided invaluable knowledge . BTW: Usualy our operators are well shaved , for many reasons any soldier understands .

My dad was in the Jagdkommando for 3 years, he stopped then for the sake of the family but its the chillest part of the family dinner everytime when he talks about the stories he had there! It was 20 years ago tho

As for Jagdkommando operations: We have special police forces similar to SWAT, HRT and such, but if the shit really hits the fan, the JaKo guys (official Austrian Military abbreviation) can be tasked with operations within our borders.

If you ever come visit our Country it would be an Honor to meet you. All the best and stay safe and healthy 👍

I loved to see this video because I've always hoped that you react to the austrian Jagdkommando. I hope that I can join it somday. Love your contant. Greetings from Austria

Definitely one of the better formats for a Special Operation video. It's so much better to see them put the journalist through the paces rather than brag. Very well done.

That old walrus at the beginning was 'stache-tacular! Cool to see grey-haired SF dudes still kicking ass.

Mustache is allowed here in the Austrian military and it looks fucking cool!

Favorite youtube channel and grettings from Germany

the protagonist is austria's most famous radio show moderator having fun at the jagdkommando :-)

More interesting than the Jagdkommando are the Hochgebirgsjäger in Austria. These are Soldiers specially trained do work on the high mountain terrain in the Austrian Alps.

Greetings from Tirol / Austria we have fucking bad ass differnt special forces ;) Also special trained for the Mountains 💪Gebirgsjäger / Mountain Hunters 😃

A fact to add: They are based in my home town, which also holds the oldest military academy of the world.

the senior operator with the moustache is a "oberst" or colonel, so he is not an active op, but taking a command role

I bet his moustache has medals for valor

He looks like a classic trucker

Man back when i was in,we had a (then Oberleutant, if i recall correctly?) try out for these guys. He didnt make it, hence he was able to tell a bit about it. According to him, it was much more unforgiving than what they show on cam. But yeah Props to him. Oberleutant is the second "lowest" Rank in the Officer Region (if you dont count "Fähnrich"which is a transitional Rank you hold when you go to "MILAK" aka Millitary Acadamy, or "Militärakademie", between Unteroffiziersstab and Offiziersstab)

Nice to see you commenting on the guys from my little town. Cheers from Austria!

You pronounced jagdkommando really funny 😂 It's pronounced yagdkommando. Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹 The guy with the captain price mustache used to be the commander of the jagdkommando ( Oberst)

my uncle once had dumb accident in the bundesheer. he was in an open top pinzgauer (just google image) and some general or so decidet to pull the handbrake while they where driving full speed. nobody died, but everybody had at least one broken bone

holy crap, who did that translations in the subs? i guess there are 5 correct translated words in the whole movie.

Thx for the good video! You are absolutely right. I know the Finnish army march from my experiences. Men with big muscles don’t endure a long march as well as normal bodies. We had a rookie during the conscript several long marches with the full pack. for example, 300km by bike in summer, and 150km by ski in winter. Both of them had all the gear on. I remember who interrupted our 300km bike march first. Racing cyclist. Regards, Anti-Armor-Jaeger Corporal1980 :)

"The jagged commado!" :D love it Btw: It literally translates to "hunting commado"

I heard for their final test they each must reach a point I think 70 km (~45 miles) away, deep in the Austrian alps, while MP's try to catch them. So they have to keep off any roads, not light fires etc to avoid detection. They have 48 hours to reach the point. Of course they have to bring their full combat gear with them. When I was in the military, and they offered us to try out for them, I remembered that (they didn't mention it in the presentation they gave us for some reason), and was like "fuck no".

he's Austrian , he can wear the Kaiser moustache !! ahahaha epic stash !

The Jagdkommando is basicly our Delta Force for people who are wondering what they categorise as it´s a Tier 1 Anti Terrorism Unit

As an Austrian i love to see how there are 0 POS in our military 😂 1:40

Who would have thought I'd see a reaction to the special forces of my small home country on this channel. Love it 😁 Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

that "operator" actually is the commander of jagdkommando. he is a col

Í´ve actually met some of these guys. Great people, fun to be around.

The guy with the moustache is a Colonel! Greetings from Austria! Love your channel

Hes the Austrian Captain Price DAT MUSTACHE BRO 🤣😎🧐

Austrian Army ist great, i had great days at the Marc Aurel Marsch (it is a march through the little hils there, about 30 miles with 14 kg in your backpack)...it was a real fun with lots of Marillenschnaps before and afterwards.

Jaghkommando is named after the Austro Hungarian stormtroopers that performed greater than German storm troopers The reason why some guys are old is because of the small population of Austria

Thanks for the upload. I'm not military but hooked on your channel. Love and peace from the UK