From its inception, the detachment honed its skills on exercises like Field Training Exercises (FTXs) High Point and Sea Ruler. Later, the detachment participated in SOTFE’s annual FTXs Flintlock and Fleet Deer, usually playing the roles of the underground and guerrilla force militia to SF detachments from Bad Tölz and the United States. The men also forged working relationships and traded techniques and procedures with a number of foreign special operations units outside Berlin.21