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Fred Engelbrecht Fred also did commando training, which trained him to climb buildings and cliffs with a rope, and leap from the top of one storey buildings without harming himself by knowing how to tuck and fall properly. He was trained to defeat the enemy in any situation, and was able to take a gun or bayonet off of a man and tie him up within seconds. With this commando training, they considered themselves as the best troops in Europe, and sometimes they flaunted it when they were let loose in the town. They seemed to get all the English women 'falling' for them...