COMANF

Batalhão de Operações Especiais de Fuzileiros Navais, or COMANF, the acronym for Comandos Anfíbios (Portuguese for Amphibious Commandos), is the Brazilian Marine Corps special operations battalion commando force.

Role

COMANF members undertake training in several regions of Brazil aimed at improving their combat skills and training to operate in different environments and climates. The training involves parachuting, mountaineering, operations in the scrub, littoral combat, jungle warfare, tactical diving, and sabotage. It may take two years, or more, to complete the training and become part of COMANF.

Structure

The battalion is currently organized as follows: a Command and Services Company and three Special Operations Companies:

• 1st Special Operations Company specializes in Reconnaissance Actions
• 2nd Special Operations Company, in Commandos Actions
• 3rd Special Operations Company, constituting the Rescue and Retaking Special Group, specializes in CT actions.

Some members are assigned abroad for training, specializing in courses such as the (Royal Marines) "All Arms Commando Course", (Marina / Spain)"Special Operations Command", (U.S. Army) Ranger School and the (U.S. Marine Corps) "Amphibious Reconnaissance Course".

Curiosity

There is a phrase in the Brazilian Navy to define the "COMANF" soldiers: "Um Comanf é imbatível, dois são inseparáveis e três fazem guerra" (Portuguese for "One Comanf is unbeatable, two are unseparable and three make a war").

Weapons

As every special force of Brazilian Armed Forces, the COMANF soldier are trained to use every type of weapon, they train with various guns of various countries. The most common guns are:

Name	Origin	Type
Glock 19	Austria	Pistol
Heckler & Koch USP	Germany	Pistol
Heckler & Koch MP5	Germany	Submachine gun
Heckler & Koch G36C	Germany	Assault rifle
Colt M4	United States	Assault rifle
Franchi SPAS-15	Italy	Shotgun
Benelli	Italy	Shotgun
FN Minimi	Belgium	Machine gun
Barrett	United States	Sniper rifle
Heckler & Koch PSG1	Germany	Sniper rifle
Taurus PT92	Brazil	Pistol
M24 Sniper Weapon System	United States	Sniper rifle
FN-FAL	Brazil	Assault rifle

See also

• Brigade Patrol Troop
• Force Reconnaissance
• Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE)