Help for Hero's 6 (Special Air Service) Traditional Cache
Help for Hero's 6 (Special Air Service)
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Another in the H4H series to remember those fallen men and women who have given their lives for the country.
Special Air Service (SAS)
The Special Air Service comprises three battalion-sized units, one Regular and two reserve Territorial Army (TA). Each is styled as a 'regiment' in accordance with British Army practice; 22 Regiment SAS being the Regular unit and 21 Regiment SAS and 23 Regiment SAS being the TA units, known together as the Special Air Service (Reserve) or SAS(R).
Each Regiment comprises a number of "Sabre" Squadrons with some supporting functions being undertaken within 22 SAS; Headquarters, Planning, and Intelligence Section, Operational Research Section, Counter Revolutionary Warfare Wing, and Training Wing. ('Sabre' Squadrons are so called to distinguish the operational squadrons from administrative or HQ squadrons.)
The Squadrons also rotate through the CRW Wing (originally designated "Pagoda") and are relieved every six – nine months. The squadron is split up into two combined troops, "Red" and "Blue", with each troop made up of an assault group and a sniper team. Though the counter-terrorist teams are based at RHQ in Credenhill, a specialist eight-man team is based within the outer London region (4, south London border & 4, north London border/Hertfordshire). This team rapidly responds to any situation in London as required.[citation needed]
The three regiments have different roles:
21 SAS and 23 SAS - to provide depth to the UKSF group through the provision of Individual and collective augmentation to the regular component of UKSF and standalone elements up to task group (Regimental) level focused on support and influence (S&I) operations to assist conflict stabilisation.
22 SAS - Medium and deep battlespace ISTAR and offensive operations, Counter Revolutionary Warfare (CRW), Counter-Terrorism (CT), close protection and defence diplomacy.
Each TA Squadron and the Honourable Artillery Company, includes attached regular personnel as Permanent Staff Instructors - a ruling established by the then Brigadier Peter de la Billière, as Director SAS, specifying that promotion within the Regiment for any officer or senior NCO would be predicated on experience with the SAS(R).. In the 1980s and 1990s the SAS provided the Commanding Officer and some directing staff for the NATO International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School (ILRRPS) based at Weingarten and then Pfullendorf as well as men for the British Army Jungle Warfare Training School in Brunei.
The SAS was formerly garrisoned at Stirling Lines (formerly Bradbury Lines) Hereford which was named after the founder of the regiment, Sir David Stirling. Stirling Lines relocated to the former RAF Hereford station in Credenhill in 1999
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