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Special Air Service

Specialist British regiment recruited from regiments throughout the army. It has served in Malaysia, Oman, Yemen, the Falklands, Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as against international urban guerrillas, as in the siege of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980.



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