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
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
The Special Operations Command is an Australian Defence Force command that was established on 5 May 2003 to unite all of the Australian Army's special forces units and by 2008 was fully operational. A
Special Air Service Regiment
…a regiment in August 1964, it is based at Campbell Barracks, in Swanbourne, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, and is a direct command unit of the Special Operations Command. The regiment first saw active service in Borneo in 1965 and 1966 during the Indonesian Confrontation, mainly conducting reconnaissance patrols, including…
A Special Operations Task Group patrol in Afghanistan in October 2009
Soldiers from Special Operations Command during a media demonstration in May 2003