Job description

The SOALI members are an additional enabling and supporting capability within the Special Forces Group Operational Detachment.
SOALI elements can get appointed to a deploying team or can deploy as a main effort. As first line enablers, SOALI members participate in numerous exercises, deploy internationally on numerous occasions for their own currency and qualification training or embedded in the teams. Once in a team, every member can continue to explore additional capabilities and can become a specialist in a specific domain. A SOALI member can either be qualified as a ROMAD (Radio Operator Maintainer And Driver) or as a JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controller).
All ROMADs become qualified drone (micro UAS, Raven, PUMA LE) operators.

How to join the SOALI team?

Volunteers and NCOs can join the SOALI team without any previous qualifications although an interest in the specific job and a functional knowledge of the English language are definitely advised. Volunteers can become ROMADs, NCOs can become ROMADs or JTACs. Officers interested in joining the SOALI team are required to be JTAC qualified prior to enrolment.

Apply as a candidate through a “request” on HRM between June and September ( when places are available) in the candidate’s respective unit.

• Basic SOF Course; 8 weeks course will bring all candidates from all respective units and components up to speed regarding SOF specific TTPs and SOPs.

• Selection Q Course; 3 weeks of selection program of the Q-Course.

• Commando course and Parachuting course in TrgC Cdo and TrgC Para.(BAC-BAP and MFF).

• SOALI ROMAD or JTAC specific courses.

• Additional job related courses to become fully qualified.

The Special Forces Group is an organization that attracts exceptional talent and is driven by the intrinsic motivation of its members in a never-ending pursuit of excellence with the unbreakable will to succeed. People don’t join the unit because WE are special but because THEY are.