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In 1998, the SASR made its first squadron-strength deployment since Vietnam when 1 Squadron, with an attached New Zealand SAS troop, was deployed to Kuwait in February as part of the American-led Operation Desert Thunder. The force, known as Anzac Special Operations Force (ANZAC SOF), was fully integrated, with the New Zealanders providing the ...
Sqn Ldr J H Nicholls, DFC July 1944: January 1945: Sqn Ldr Robert Wilkinson Turkington, DFC January 1945: May 1945: Sqn Ldr C T Stimpson June 1946: June 1948: Sqn Ldr The Hon. Max Aitken, DSO, DFC June 1948: 1950: Sqn Ldr Hugh Dundas, DSO & Bar, DFC 1950: 1952: Sqn Ldr P H M Richey, DFC & Bar 1952: January 1957: Sqn Ldr C C MacCarthy-Jones [25 ...
A No. 33 Squadron Boeing 707 refuelling a US Navy F/A-18 in 2002. During the first phase of Operation Slipper, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) commitment to Afghanistan consisted of a Special Forces Task Group and two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Boeing 707 air-to-air refuelling aircraft from No. 33 Squadron.
The SASR's 1 Squadron arrived in Afghanistan in November 2001, and rapidly sent LRPV-mounted patrols hundreds of kilometers from their base at Camp Rhino. [7] In his history of the SASR's early operations in Afghanistan, journalist Ian McPhedran wrote that the "Australian-designed LRPVs would prove ideal in the harsh Afghan environment, as they ...
Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991. According to Chris Ryan's account, the patrol was given the task of gathering intelligence, finding a good lying-up position (LUP), setting up an observation post (OP), and monitoring enemy movements, especially Scud missile launchers [1 ...
Rotations from No. 77 Squadron RAAF took over the deployment in September 2015, and were in turn replaced by No. 3 Squadron RAAF in April 2016. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] On 18 September 2016, two F/A-18As and a E-7A Wedgetail formed part of a multi-national force consisting of US, UK, and Danish aircraft which accidentally bombed Syrian Army forces near ...
In March 1944, F Squadron, GHQ Liaison Regiment was added to the brigade. In 1945, the Belgian parachute company was redesignated as 5th Special Air Service. The French units were also redesignated as the 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment and the 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment (abbreviated as 2 RCP and 3 RCP). [1]
Sqn Ldr E.H. Stevens 4 June 1940: 1 April 1941: Sqn Ldr G.L. Denholm, DFC: 1 April 1941: 25 July 1941: Sqn Ldr F.M. Smith 25 July 1941: 17 October 1941: Sqn Ldr M.J. Loudon 17 October 1941: 18 December 1941: Sqn Ldr R.G. Forshaw 18 December 1941: 20 July 1942: Sqn Ldr Lord D. Douglas-Hamilton: 20 July 1942: 3 August 1942: Sqn Ldr W.A. Douglas ...