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Cansofcom provides the chief of the defence staff cds with agile, highly special operations forces. The canadian air force caf was established in 1920 as the successor to a shortlived twosquadron canadian air force formed during the first world war in europe. The 160th special operations aviation regiment airborne, abbreviated as 160th soar a, is a special operations force of the united states army that provides helicopter aviation support for general purpose forces and special operations forces. In the event of war 400 tactical helicopter and training squadron is assigned to deploy to augment 427 special operations aviation squadron in cfb petawawa.
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