Always thought this was very silly- yes low vis ranks are good but to include their own names on them are kind of defeating the point.
One thing NSG has quietly but staunchly rolled out in recent years is using callsign/role identifiers and you’ll struggle to see a SAG (even the more direct action SRGs/SCGs) unit without them these days:
once you see it you can’t unsee it:
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/LGHLCWlKgcA?si=j218xsEspLIGW-HV
View: https://x.com/platypus_10/status/1836795555244302339?s=46
View: https://x.com/kilo_spec/status/1785636816810606907?s=46
This should be mandatory for all Indian specialist units especially those with sensitive mandates as the risk from honeypots/infiltration is just too strong these days. All you need to know is someone’s name and branch and you can find them pretty easily on the web. Then you get the Paras who regularly walk around with their full names and ranks in bright badges but alas…
Have been doing quite a lot of looking into NSG recently and I find it quite interesting to see the disparity in the various units- SAGs, SCGs and SRGs. On the one hand it’s positive to see that SRGs are being trained (and somewhat equipped) up to a CT standard but when you see a NSG unit with bare A1 MP5s and sh!tty gear it’s fair to assume they are SRG:
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As I said there’s a LOT of NSG content out there now (mostly from SRG guys, make of that what you will) but it gives a relatively decent insight into their current level
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/p9kr52O8g_Y?si=juNDufxOQXR37ubg
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/FpQ3guqPp2Y?si=LYg7F4eF2i1-JOlC
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/Yl63eSj5_ck?si=t8PS_ci_1cV_TfpG
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/Ng98OyEgC5A?si=eISTRcfXVorb--g_
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/9_F8l1alIMc?si=3BRXphnokLORWTdM
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/CYA3XAcyBhY?si=sxjfXruUy1vNGJ9g
still hilariously behind any contemporary unit in the West but at the same time decently uniform and showing decent evolution. That said >90% of the content out there will be from SRGs/SCGs, we won’t see the best stuff (CTFF) very often and maybe that’s for the best.
NSG seems to be evolving into a bit of a FBI tactical team model- local hubs have SWAT teams whilst the CTTF is retained for the top tier threats like HRT. It’s a decent foundation especially with NSG being pulled out of VVIP guarding roles from early 2025- incidentally if NSG are being pulled from this why the fk is this still a role for PARAs? Senior IA brass have bigger egos and smaller pr!cks than even petty netas now?
