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The 1st Special Air Service Company was established on 25 July 1957 at Swanbourne, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, with a strength of 16 officers and 144 other ranks. [ 24 ] In 1960, the company became part of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) and was given the responsibility for commando and special forces operations. [ 25 ]
Commando White Diamond: Memoir of Service of the 2/8 Australian Commando Squadron; Australia and the South-West Pacific 1942–1945. Loftus, New South Wales: Australian Military History Publications. ISBN 978-0-9586693-1-3. Horner, David (1998). SAS:Phantoms of the Jungle—A History of the Australian Special Air Service. Sydney, New South ...
Seizure of H-2 and H-3 Air Bases, 18 and 25 March 2003, after infiltrating Iraq at full strength, a combined force consisting of B and D squadron of British Special Air Service and 1 squadron of Australian Special Air Service Regiment set up observation posts around H-2 and H-3 air base and called in airstrikes that defeated the Iraqi defenders ...
On that same day Campbell announced at a press conference that the 2 Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment would be disbanded and struck from the army's order of battle. [9] [10] He also apologised for "any wrong doing by Australian soldiers" and said a "distorted culture" existed in the Australian Defence Force. [11]
Making the Australian Defence Force. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Vol. IV. Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-554117-0. Horner, David (2002). SAS: Phantoms of War. A History of the Australian Special Air Service (Second ed.). Sydney, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-647-9.
The United States has warned that allegations of war crimes against Australian soldiers in Afghanistan could prevent U.S. forces from working with Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment ...
The first action of the offensive occurred in late April, when Lieutenant Marco Kroon led a platoon consisting of twenty-nine Dutch Commando Corps (KCT) soldiers from "Task Force Viper", alongside twenty-nine Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) soldiers, into the village of Surk Murgab (15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Tarin Kowt).
The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report, commonly known as the Brereton Report (after the investigation head), is a report into war crimes allegedly committed by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) during the War in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016. [2]