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Special Forces

plural noun

  1. U.S. Army personnel trained to organize, instruct, supply, and supervise local forces engaged in guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency operations, and to themselves conduct unconventional warfare.


special forces

plural noun

  1. élite, highly trained military forces, specially selected to work on difficult missions
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UK Special Forces officers appear to have rejected every application from a former Afghan commando referred to them for sponsorship, despite the Afghan units having fought with the British on life-threatening missions against the Taliban.

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There was particular frustration around UK Special Forces obstructing attempts by the RMP to obtain a server which held all of the SAS's operational paperwork.

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"They scattered from the truck but Lewes lingered," says Ms Amonds-Windmill, who devotes a chapter to the incident in her book Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS and Special Forces.

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He agreed that there had been a "massive failure of leadership" by UK Special Forces.

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Mr Livelsberger was a decorated Special Forces intelligence sergeant who was serving in Germany, but was on approved leave at the time of the blast.

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