The rivalry between the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) and 2nd Commando Regiment has even featured in a novel about Afghanistan penned by a former commando who uses as a plot twist an account of ...
July 2, 2015: For the first time in its history all the senior commands of the Australian Army are filled by special operations officers. While special operations troops comprise only seven percent of ...
The as yet unnamed commando, one of the army's highly experienced special forces patrol commanders with a fierce tradition of leading from the front, was the 40th Australian soldier killed in the ...