Navy Special Action Regiment

The Navy Special Action Regiment (RASM; Arabic: الفوج العمل الخاص للبحرية), also known as "Commandos Marine" ("مغاوير البحرية"), is a special forces regiment belonging to the Algerian naval forces.

However, it was decided to gather all the commando and combat diver sections in order to create a new special operations regiment for the Algerian Navy.

In addition, the RASM took over the combat divers of the former special intervention group (GIS) shortly after the latter was disbanded in 2015.

[2] The mission of the RASM is : The RASM has several companies with various specialties:[5][8][7][9] Each company includes a group specialized in hostage rescue on maritime or land targets, which are hostage rescue groups.

Future commandos are trained at the Ecole d'application des troupes de marine (EATM) in Jijel.

RASM sniper during a training.
RASM operator during a training.
Algerian Marine commando during an exercise for Phoenix Express in 2012.
An Algerian marine commando during a training with the NATO in Greece in 2012.
An Algerian marine commando during a training with the NATO in Greece in 2012.
Algerian combat divers after an exercise in 2007.