The Hunter Corps

Jaegerkorpset, also known as The Hunter Corps is a Danish special forces unit of the Royal Danish Army, which the headquarters located in Aalborg Air Base. This elite unit’s primary tasks are covert ops, unconventional warfare, combat search and rescue, direct action and counter-terrorism, also they engage in hostage rescue, information operations and humanitarian missions. There are approximately more than 200 commandos in the unit.

In 1785 The Hunter Corps of Zealand was first formed and had different versions of the unit, until it had reformed into current unit in 1962, with Major P.B.Larsen and First Lieutenant Jorgen Lyng were the very first to finish the training. Their first deployment was in 1995, which six –man team went to Bosnia’s Sarajevo as a counter-sniper reconnaissance team. During the Cold War, the Jaeger’s main mission was a long-range reconnaissance and parachute operations. After the 9/11 Global War on Terror, the unit was modernized and improved to face the growing threat of global terrorism, such as honing their skills in counter-terrorism, while still maintaining their primary operation skills. The Jaegers were deployed to Afghanistan in 2002, as a part of Danish contribution to the Task Force K-Bar, along with the Frogman Corps. During the missions the unit was tasked in de-mining operations, support reconnaissance, high value targets capture and direct action raids on Taliban and Al-Qaeda bases. In 2004 the Jaegers were awarded ‘’The Presidential Unit citation’’ for its engagements as a joint-special forces group in Afghanistan.

The selection process to become Jaegersoldat is very challenging both physically and mentally. The pre-training consists of 5 days of orienteering, 2 days of evaluation and training for the lacked skills, 2 days of intensive training, 8 weeks of patrol skills training, 6 weeks of training for candidates to reach their limit, 2 weeks of basic parachute course and 2 weeks of combat swimming courses. After the successful completion of the courses the recruits can begin their real training that lasts for several years.

‘’Plus esse, quam simultatur’’ (More to be, than to seem)