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In the News (Mon 14 Dec 09)

  
  Special Operations.Com
GIGN commandos are cross-trained in a variety of specialties, including scuba diving, sniping, parachuting, and explosives.
GIGN is also known to make use of dogs in certain operations, although details on this aspect of their organization are sketchy.
GIGN is known to have lost 5 operators, along with dozens injured.
www.specialoperations.com /Foreign/France/GIGN/default.htm   (1221 words)

  
 Groupe d'Intervention Gendarmerie Nationale
GIGN was initially formed in 1974 and was to be no greater than 100 operators.
Because GIGN operates all over the world, operators need to be able to function in a myriad of environments.
GIGN operators are expected to know not only the weapons they deploy with, but also any possible weapons their adversaries might be equipped with.
www.specwarnet.net /europe/gign.htm   (541 words)

  
 GIGN.lv - Multiplayer Online Games, Counter Strike, Photos, Flash Games
Kaut ko vairāk par īsto GIGN lasiet zemāk.
The next part comes from a Frencham who e-mailed me wih info GIGN is one of the world"s busiest and best Counter-Terrorist units.
More informations about the GIGN: It's a 87men-strong unit designed to anti-terrorism and police operations (like SWATs).
www.gign.lv /history   (630 words)

  
 GIGN.org - Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN)
Jusqu'à présent, le GIGN n'était qu'un "élément" du GSIGN (Groupement de Sécurité et d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale).
« Au cœur de l’action GIGN » l’ouvrage original, constitué d’une étonnante série de photographies entraîne le lecteur au plus profond des différents périmètres d’action du GIGN, retranscris dans les quatre éléments environnementaux : la terre, l’eau, l’air et le feu.
Pour ce nouveau livre sur le GIGN, le photographe Louis-Frédéric DUNAL, avec un oeil artistique et une volonté certaine nous plonge au coeur de cette unité d'élite, pour le plaisir de nos yeux...
www.gign.org /gign   (471 words)

  
 Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale Information
In 1973, the GIGN was created as a permanent force of men trained and equipped to respond to these kind of threats while minimising risks for the public and hostages, for the members of the unit, and for the attackers themselves.
The GIGN was selected by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to teach the special forces of the other member states.
The GIGN is divided into four groups: negotiation, special equipment section (mechanics, video, weaponry), a language group (individuals specialized in teaching foreign units), and a technical group which provides the unit with modified and high-tech equipment, by either selecting or designing it.
www.bookrags.com /GIGN   (610 words)

  
 Medicom Toy GIGN Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale
This is once again reinforced when looking at GIGN's blue Nomex suit that is not even close in comparison to the SAS and the GSG-9.
The GIGN believe it or not are one of the best and most experienced Counter-Terrorist units in the world.
GIGN recruits come exclusively from the Gendarmerie and are required to put in 3 years of experience with an outstanding record.
www.artdoesart.com /collecting/medicom-gign.shtml   (828 words)

  
 All uniforms of the GIGN - Military Photos
GIGN isn't just inside France, I worked with them in different European countries as Germany and Switzerland, maybe they also act oversea when (for example) french ministers are there.
GIGN was also deployed in the Comores when famous mercenary Bob Denard made another putsch there.
GIGN is maybe one of the most professional unit and one of the more skilled.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=52324   (614 words)

  
 Air France Flight 8969 at AllExperts
The crisis was ultimately solved with minimal casualties to innocents by the GIGN, the intervention group of the French Gendarmerie, a law-enforcement agency.
All of the careful positioning done to conceal the GIGN units from being detected had to be altered as the aircraft moved to within thirty meters of the tower.
The GIGN deployed all of the emergency escape chutes to allow the people to evacuate the aircraft during the firefight that lasted nearly twenty minutes that at last left the four hijackers dead.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/ai/air_france_flight_8969.htm   (1319 words)

  
 GIGN   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The GIGN was born, with a number of 15 policemen.
The GIGN does everything possible to stand in the forefront of progress and technique.
The GIGN missions serain, above all interventions in penitentiary environment, during hostage taking, hijacking, and in any other means of transport.
kravmaga.31.free.fr /source/gign_en.htm   (341 words)

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