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The Special Warfare Diving and Salvage (Bengali: স্পেশাল ওয়ারফেয়ার ডাইভিং অ্যান্ড স্যালভেজ) or SWADS is an elite Special Operations Force of the Bangladesh Navy. The SWADS are professional soldiers and are recruited through the Bangladesh Navy. The Special Warfare Diving and Salvage (SWADS) is organized, trained and equipped along the lines of SEAL/UDT teams of the United States Navy SEALs and the Republic of Korea Navy UDT/SEAL.〔"SWADS">(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bangladesh Military Forces - BDMilitary.com )〕 SWADS’s are composed of professional soldiers recruited from the Bangladesh Navy. Other information about the individual units is secret. The units include SEAL, UDT, SBS, EOD/BD, BPC, SNIPER, etc. The SWADS are composed of one unit. Although information about individual units is classified, the size of the organization is believed to be around one-thousand and its command center is in the southern port city of Chittagong.〔http://dhaka.usembassy.gov/uploads/images/O2_Gg5Y8TfNJPE8t1ec3wQ/25_may_09_Moriarty_Balance_Buffalo_Closing_Ceremony.pdf〕 Its base is formally known as "Nirvik".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PM inaugurates Naval Aviation, names SWADS naval command base "Nirvik" )〕 ==History== Although Bangladeshi Navy personnel were trained on American soil since the 1970s, American Navy instructors were instrumental in creating SWADS in late 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bangladesh navy adds special war unit to fight terror - ANN )〕 SWADS was formally created in 2009 with 150 commandos and 200 divers recruited.〔 US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena provided assistance in the creation of the unit.〔 The unit's lineage is traced back to the Nau Commandos during the country's Liberation War against Pakistan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Speeches & Remarks 2009 - Embassy of the United States Dhaka, Bangladesh )〕〔http://dhaka.usembassy.gov/uploads/images/hSceCcaxqZek1JcQr1LWmQ/12_nov_09_Closing_Tiger-Shark.pdf〕 SWADS operators have participated alongside American Navy SEALs in Joint Combined Training Exchange programs under the Tiger Shark exercises.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Special Warfare Diving and Salvage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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