The first S.A.T. course was conducted in 1962 in the city of Iskenderun, the first trainees graduated in 1963 and they began to serve. The original name of the S.A.T. unit was "Su Altı Komando" (S.A.K.) ("Underwater Commando") and was bound to the "Kurtarma ve Sualtı Komutanlığı" (K.S.K.), or "Rescue and Underwater Command".In 1974 S.A.T. group command became bound to the Turkish Navy's General Command, and participated in the Turkish military landing in Cyprus later that year. They have conducted the beach reconnaissance mission prior to the amphibious landing of the Turkish Armed Forces at Pentamili beach near Kyrnia (20 July 1974). Other publicised operations of S.A.T. commandos are as follows