1st Airborne Brigade (Japan)
The 1st Airborne Brigade (第1空挺団, Dai-Ichi Kūtei Dan?), also known as the Narashino Airborne Brigade (習志野空挺団?), is stationed in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Camp Narashino in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture.
The Brigade serves as Japan's elite paratrooper unit meant to counter against either guerrillas or enemy special forces units. Since 1999 the Brigade has a "Guide Unit" (誘導隊?), serving as its NEO (Non-combatant Evacuation Operations) unit. Currently, they are attached to current homeland defense and international combat operations under the JGSDF Central Readiness Force.
The unit is being likened similarly to the Western Army Infantry Regiment and the Japanese Special Forces Group, since these units are some of Japan's only Special Forces units with an offensive capability as some of Japan's other Special Forces units are assigned to CT or defensive duties. Their presence in the JGSDF has served the organization as a morale booster.
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