In the early stages of the Grand Army of the Republic, Jango Fett noticed a massive problem with armies Special Operation Brigade. Although Many of the operations conducted were sucessful, there was a problem with intelligence work. The soldiers whom were conduction them, were clone troopers. And this made things particularly difficult. If a clone was in the field posing as a civilian in order to infiltrate behind enemy lines and act as a spy. He would tend to draw attention to himself, because there are 15 million others who look like him, and 3 others around him who also look exactly alike.
So a new Detachment of Special Operations Brigade was created. The Special Warfare Development Teams. There were 3 teams, Team 1, 5, and 11. In order to make the enemy think that were 11 teams, not 3. Each Team is conprised of 100 Operators, Team - 100 men, company - 50, Platoon 25, squad 10, and then a squad can be broken up into smaller groups. When Jango went out to look for warrior eligable for the 3 week selection training. He looked for non-cloned commandos, ARCs, and other non-cloned soldiers under special Operations brigade who have excelled above their fellow warrior clone troopers. The first class of soldiers to go SWDT's selection training, was a class of 165 soldiers. This included the now operators of Redwing, Axe, Hawks, Duece, and Vegas. Each week of selection was a new evolution, indoctrination evolution 1. This was just a week for the soldiers to fine-tune basic skills like navigation, and simple techniques that will help in days to come. The 2nd Evolution was one too weed out the weak, this consisted of a 50-mile cross-country Forced March, Long distances swim in a full combat armor, and many other tough exercises. At this point, students were given 1 day to recover. And then the last phase. 3rd Evolution also known as "Hell Week" it starts early in the moring around 1 or 2 o'clock. While the students are sleeping and them, seeming all hell breaks loose. Their immediately woken up and thrown into the "Mosh Pit" a dug out mud pit filled with about a foot of water. Forced crawl al 50 meters and then they get to the logs, divided up into teams, doing cunches, lifts, running with it, a 450lb telephone pole.
this goes on for about 6 1/2 days. Oh and it's conducted under combat conditions. So no sleep, and their is constantly someone yelling at you and making your life difficult. When hellweeks is over, the class went from 165, down to 25. After the students rejoice and celebrate, their given a day off. And then move Coruscant for advanced weapon system training. They hown their skills to be infinately better than the average clone. They train with almost every weapon system, and even aerial platform shooting. Then after about a 2 months, they move onto more advanced combat techniques. Their practice close quarters combat, urban warfare, breaching, escapes, shooting and moving and operating in the field as a team. After about 3 months, the students go to Scout Sniper training. practicing shooting with a precision rifle, relaying information to am assault team, and counter sniper tactics.
Soon after Scout Sniper school, the students train in tactical drving, and some types of flying. Once they have complete their Direct Action training, Intelligence training began. They learned how to spy and conduct secret operation. Some Shadow Troopers were brought in to help instruct them on how gather inteligence alone in the field, how to link-up with other operators, and prepare an assault on their target and capture, or kill it. After the students have gone through all the training, they are given one last test. This would test all their skills. Class 1's (Redwings class) mission was to locate and capture a high ranking terrorist leader, and swiftly capture him for trial in front of a jury.
during the 2 week operation each operator is given 5 hours from mission breifing, until the local Law enforcement begin to track them down. They were reported by their intructors to be a terrorist organization planing an assault on Courascant.
Once the class finishes, they go to graduate and are assign a Team. Redwing was assigned Team 1.
If you liked this description of their traning, let me know, and maybe I'll actually write a short story about the selection and training of SWDT. That actually is about the oeprators of Team Redwing, rather than just paraphrasing it.
Alright here is what I have done since. A quick look at my progress with the stand (Working on putting a team emblem in the center). And a look at the the entire team and thier weapons.
