Antonis Drossoyannis, who was born in 1922, commanded the Albanian front in 1940 and founded the 62nd Mountain Raider Company during the Greek Civil War.
During the Greek Civil War (194649) he was commander of the 62nd Mountain Raider Company, and in 195558 commanded the Raider Units Training Centre (KEMK). 
Despite his own career in the arch-conservative special forces, and his family's royalist background, he became a close friend of the founder of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Andreas Papandreou, whose head of security he was. 
