Operation Morris Dance
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Operation Morris Dance was an Australian military operation conducted in May 1987 in response to the first of the 1987 Fijian coups d'état.
HMAS Tobruk during an exercise in 1987
A 1982 photo of HMAS Adelaide
Special Air Service Regiment
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The Special Air Service Regiment, officially abbreviated SASR and commonly known as the SAS, is a special forces unit of the Australian Army. Formed in 1957 as a company, it was modelled on the Britis
Operation Morris Dance
…half hours after Townsville radio stations had broadcast the Prime Minister's announcement that the ACG had been ordered to stand by. A squadron of the Special Air Service Regiment was also alerted for a possible deployment to Fiji, but did not leave Australia. On 21 May, the ACG was flown from RAAF Base Townsville to Norfolk…
Members of the Queensland branch of the Australian Special Air Service association during the 2007 ANZAC Day march in Brisbane
An SASR patrol during Operation Coburg, South Vietnam 1968.
SASR soldiers returning to the main Australian base at Nui Dat after a patrol in May 1970
The two SASR recipients of the Victoria Cross for Australia for actions in Afghanistan, Mark Donaldson and Ben Roberts-Smith, in 2011