Talk:Special Boarding Unit

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Did you know... that the Special Boarding Unit was created by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces in response to the alleged presence of North Korean spy ships in Japanese waters in 1999?

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Equivalent[edit]

The SBU is the Japanese equivalent of NSWDG and SBS, not the regular seal teams. If they were trained by the British SBS and are the equivalent of them, how can they be the equivalent to the regular seal teams. They are not. NSWDG, SBS and SBU are tier 1 and tier 1 equivalent units 158.223.122.142 (talk) 14:00, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to propose a change, you must provide reliable sources to support it; simply repeating your reverted edits on talk pages is not useful. It's just continuing your normal behavior of avoiding verification and adding original research.

Saying that, the existing material cites [1], which says:

The MSDF set up the unit in 2001 as the Self-Defense Forces’ first elite task force trying to emulate other nations’ special operations forces, such as the SEAL teams of the U.S. Navy and the Special Boat Service of the British Royal Navy.

- RovingPersonalityConstruct (talk, contribs) 15:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]