TROOP SHOW: GROM in action

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After introducing you to the Polish Special Unit GROM today in the past year, today we take a look back at the short history of the unit, and show you in which hotspots of the world the guys were already officially active.

The GROM was officially founded under the name JW 2305 in 1990. Their first major foreign appearance came only four years later, during the Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, where they collaborated with the US 3rd Special Forces Group (A).

The mission had a signaling effect, concerning Poland's willingness for close military cooperation with NATO countries. (In 1999, Poland joined NATO together with the Czech Republic and Hungary.)

In the second half of the 1990s, GROM soldiers were active in former Yugoslavia, where they searched for alleged war criminals for UNTAES.

At least seven of them are said to have been apprehended by the Polish specialists, the most famous of them being Slavko Dokmanović.

In 2001, the GROM began their longest accompanied armed conflict: Afghanistan. Initially, they took on reconnaissance tasks.

By 2007, with the establishment of Task Force 49, the operational area was restricted to the Ghazni Province and its surroundings, where they operate as reinforcement forces.

While some of the commandos were serving in A-Stan, others supported controversial Maritime Interdiction Operations in the region starting from Kuwait in 2002.

From Kuwait, it was not far to Iraq, where the GROM was involved in the Battle of Umm Qasr from the beginning as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.Allegedly, the Iraq mission was of great importance to the GROM, as there were considerations of splitting the unit between the army and navy due to the extensive operational areas, which was prevented by the Iraq engagement.

The GROM will officially say goodbye to Afghanistan this year, and we hope that there will be no new discussion of division as a result, so that the motto Tobie Ojczyzno! will remain for a long time.