Groupement De Commandos Mixtes Aéroportés
The Groupement de commandos mixtes aéroportés ( en, Mixed Airborne Commando Group) commonly referred as just GCMA, was the "Action Service" of the SDECE French counter-intelligence service active during the Cold War. The GCMA's origins lay in the British - U.S - French joint Operation Jedburgh in France in 1944. History Commando Nord Viet-Nam (1951-1954) The North Vietnam Commandos (''Commando Nord Viet-Nam'') were units similar to the GCMA. They were created in 1951 and remained in service until 1954. Each commando was made of local volunteers called "partisans" (from the anticommunist and pro-French Thổ people, Tho, Nung people, Nung and Hmong people (also known as the Miao people, Mèo), minorities) as well as "returned" Viet Minh POW and was commanded by a young French Non-commissioned officer (units were named after them) with an assistant (''adjoint''), most of them were detached from GCMA units. Since former ''Viet Minh'' regulars were part of the troops, occasional b ...
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