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  2. Operation Trent - Wikipedia

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    After political intersession with Prime minister Tony Blair, the SAS were given a direct-action task – the destruction of an al-Qaeda-linked opium processing plant.The facility was located 190 mi (300 km) southwest of Kandahar at the foot of the 5,900 ft (1,800 m) Koh-I-Malik mountain, 12 mi (20 km) north of the Pakistan border, the facility was made up of a system of houses, compounds and ...

  3. 23 Special Air Service Regiment (Reserve) - Wikipedia

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    Three SAS reservists were awarded military crosses, and one won a Conspicuous Gallantry Cross in Afghanistan. [21] [22] On 1 September 2014, 21 and 23 SAS were moved from United Kingdom Special Forces and placed under the command of 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade.

  4. 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]

  5. List of military rations - Wikipedia

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    24-hour Multi-Climate Ration Pack for British troops in the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan, 2009 The UK provides the Operational Ration Pack, General Purpose. Packed inside a small cardboard box, each ration has enough retort-pouched and canned foods to feed one soldier for 24 hours. [ 13 ]

  6. List of SAS operations - Wikipedia

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    The SAS were tasked with assaulting 2 of the dwellings whilst Delta Force assaulted another 2 dwellings; both of Delta's and one of the SAS's target buildings were cleared without incident, but as the SAS assaulted their final dwelling the assault team were wounded by a hail of fire and an RPG-7 rocket, they returned fire and withdrew from the ...

  7. SAS unit ‘killed detainees and unarmed men in Afghanistan’

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    A Panorama investigation reportedly uncovered 54 suspicious killings carried out by one British SAS unit on a six-month tour. SAS unit ‘killed detainees and unarmed men in Afghanistan’ Skip to ...

  8. Thor III - Wikipedia

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    It was employed by the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and partnered Afghan National Army soldiers in Afghanistan. Sierra Nevada received the initial contract in December 2007. [ 3 ] This system uses three transceivers mounted on backpacks to jam radio-controlled IEDs; each of the three different transceivers jams a different frequency bandwidth ...

  9. History of the Special Air Service - Wikipedia

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    In December 1963, the SAS went onto the offensive, now under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Woodhouse, adopting a "shoot and scoot" policy to keep SAS casualties to a minimum. [41] They were augmented by the adding to their strength of the Guards Independent Parachute Company and later the Gurkha Independent Parachute Company. [42]