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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Special Air Service Troops - Wikipedia

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

  6. Australian commandos - Wikipedia

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    The name commando has been applied to a variety of Australian special forces and light infantry units that have been formed since 1941–42. The first Australian "commando" units were formed during the Second World War, where they mainly performed reconnaissance and long-range patrol roles during Australia's campaigns in New Guinea and Borneo, although other units such as M and Z Special Units ...

  7. 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 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.

  8. 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

  9. SAS: Rogue Heroes - Wikipedia

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    The first series depicts the origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The storyline is a broadly accurate representation of real events, as described by Ben Macintyre in his 2016 book of the same name.