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  2. Special Air Service Regiment - Wikipedia

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    Military dogs, designated Special Operations Military Working Dog (SOMWD), have been members of the SASR since 2005, seeing service in Afghanistan and have their own memorial. [ 196 ] [ 197 ] [ 198 ] While the SASR is a regular army unit, it also has a pool of Army Reserve personnel.

  3. Special Air Service Troops - Wikipedia

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    The Special Air Service Troops was a airborne commando forces brigade sized formation of the Special Air Service (SAS), which was founded on 7 January 1944 in the United Kingdom during the European theatre of World War II. The formation was also known as the SAS Brigade. The brigade was a multi-national force of British, French, and Belgian units.

  4. List of SAS operations - Wikipedia

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    Operation Jocal, on 24 June 2003, six Royal Military Police soldiers from 156 Provost Company of the 16 Air Assault Brigade were assaulted and killed by an Iraqi mob numbering several hundred at a police station in Majar al-Kabir. The town was known for banditry and lawlessness, the people there insisted that they had liberated themselves from ...

  5. History of the Special Air Service - Wikipedia

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    His idea was for small teams of parachute-trained soldiers to operate behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy enemy aircraft, and attack their supply and reinforcement routes. Following a meeting with Major-General Neil Ritchie , the Deputy Chief of Staff, he was granted an appointment with the new Commander-in-Chief Middle East ...

  6. List of former Special Air Service personnel - Wikipedia

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    This list includes notable individuals who served in the Special Air Service (SAS) – (Regular or TA).. Michael Asher – author, historian and desert explorer; Sir Peter de la Billière – Commander-in-Chief British Forces in the Gulf War

  7. Special Air Service - Wikipedia

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    The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. [5]

  8. List of wars: 1900–1944 - Wikipedia

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    Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.

  9. List of World War II military operations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 [update] this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.