Special Air Service

noun

1. a regiment in the British Army specializing in clandestine operations

Example Sentences

“That’s enough for today,” said her climbing coach, a female commando from the Special Air Service.

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Ben Roberts-Smith, who retired from Australia’s elite Special Air Service Regiment a decade ago, lost a landmark defamation suit on June 1 against newspapers that had accused him of an array of war crimes.

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Former Special Air Service Regiment trooper Oliver Schulz, 41, was charged with the war crime of murder in the death of an Afghan who was shot in 2012 in a wheat field in Uruzgan province.

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Australian Special Air Service Association chair Martin Hamilton-Smith described the ruling as a “very disappointing day” for the elite regiment.

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In the 17 years he spent in the military, he rose through the ranks to become a commander of the Special Air Service Regiment.

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