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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 ] The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terrorism , hostage rescue , direct action and special reconnaissance .
Stirling Lines is a British Army garrison in Credenhill, Herefordshire; the headquarters of the 22 Special Air Service Regiment (22 SAS), Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) and 18 (UKSF) Signal Regiment. The site was formerly a Royal Air Force (RAF) non-flying station for training schools, known as RAF Credenhill. [2] [3]
658 Squadron AAC is a special operations support squadron of the Army Air Corps (AAC) unit of the British Army that provides dedicated aviation support to the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (22 SAS) for domestic counterterrorism (CT) and CSAR operations. [3] The squadron is co-located with 22 SAS at Stirling Lines. [4]
The need for a regular army SAS regiment had been recognised, and so the Malayan Scouts (SAS) were renamed 22 SAS Regiment and formally added to the Army List in 1952. [34] However B Squadron was disbanded, leaving just A and D Squadrons in service. [35] [36]
Men of 22 SAS in Malaya. Malayan Emergency. Operation Helsby, February 1952, series of deep penetration operations in Malaya. [4] Operation Hive; Jebel Akhdar War. In 1958 two squadrons of 22 SAS were deployed to Oman to put down a rebellion. [5] In January 1959 the SAS carried out a successful assault on a large guerrilla force on the Sabrina ...
From the personal blog [3] of former British Army 22 SAS Soldier Colin Armstrong best known by his pseudonym Chris Ryan: I've been asked if the Increment is real, and if the kind of deniable 'black' ops I depict in my novel of that title really happen. The Increment most definitely exists.
The 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (Reserve), historically known as The Artists Rifles [nb 1] is a regiment of the Army Reserve. Its name is abbreviated to 21 SAS(R) . Raised in London in 1859 as a volunteer light infantry unit, the regiment saw active service during the Second Boer War and the First World War, earning a number of ...
Operation Kipling was a British special forces operation that took place during the Second World War in German-occupied France between 13 August to 26 September 1944. . Originally supposed to be part of a larger airborne operation (Transfigure), 'C' Squadron, 1st Special Air Service commanded by Major Tony Marsh, was air dropped in an area near Orléans to disrupt German communications and troop m