Lautaro Special Operations Brigade

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (March 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 4,848 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Brigada de Operaciones Especiales Lautaro]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|es|Brigada de Operaciones Especiales Lautaro}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Lautaro Special Operations Brigade (Brigada de Operaciones Especiales "Lautaro," BOE) is a Special operations formation of the Chilean Army. It is made up of units of special forces, land, mountain and paratroopers, commandos, tactical divers, and snipers.^[1]

The brigade is located in the town of  [es], in the military camp of the same name (the former Arteaga fortress), in the commune of Colina, north of the city of Santiago de Chile.^[2]

To create the brigade, and the Group of Armored Cavalry No. 4 Cuirassiers had to be closed. ^[3][4]

Among its reported units are the 1st Parachute Battalion "Pelantaru"; the 1st Commandos Company "Iquique;" the 10th Commandos Company; the 13th Commandos Company "Escorpión;" and the Grupo Especial de Montaña (Special Mountain Group). In 2010 the IISS Military Balance said the Chilean Army had one special operations brigade with four battalions.^[5]

References[]

This article about a specific military unit is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t

This Chile-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t