The Second World War saw the British army develop its Special Air Service, Commando units and the Parachute Regiment.

* Gene therapy is a crucial plot element in the video game Metal Gear Solid, where it has been used to illegally enhance the battle capabilities of soldiers within the US military, and their Next Generation Special Forces units.

HK provides firearms for many military and paramilitary units, like the Special Air Service, U. S. Navy SEALs, Delta Force, FBI HRT, the German KSK and GSG 9 and many other counter-terrorist and hostage rescue teams.

In addition, US Special Operations Forces conducted Iris Gold rotations to train and assist other Kuwaiti military units

In 2008, the Lebanese Army started establishing the Special Operations command in order to group the Army's elite units.

The Lithuanian Armed Forces consist of the Lithuanian Land Force, Lithuanian Air Force, Lithuanian Naval Force, Lithuanian Special Operations Force and other units: Logistics Command, Training and Doctrine Command, Headquarters Battalion, Military Police.

OKL badly neglected the need for transport aircraft ; even in 1943, transport units were described as Kampfgeschwadern zur besonderen Verwendung (" Bomber Units on Special Duties ", KGzbV ).

The 1, 500-member Special Mobile Force ( SMF ) and the 500-member National Coast Guard are the only two paramilitary units in Mauritius.

Numbered Territorial Force battalions, ranking after the Special Reserve, were formed from the volunteer units at the same time.

The Special Reserve reverted to its militia designation in 1921, then to Supplementary Reserve in 1924, though the units were effectively placed in " suspended animation " until disbanded in 1953.

In the United States these units go by a variety of names, but are commonly known as SWAT ( Special Weapons And Tactics ) teams.

Exceptionally heroic or high-performing units earned the Guards title ( for example 1st Guards Special Rifle Corps, 6th Guards Tank Army ),, an élite designation denoting superior training, matériel, and pay.

Special police units ( Blade Runners ) are sent to investigate, test and ultimately " retire " ( kill ) replicants found on Earth.

* Rhodesian Special Air Service, several special force units from Rhodesia

The CIA's elite Special Activities Division ( SAD ) units were the first U. S. forces to enter Afghanistan ( noting that many different countries intelligence agencies were on the ground or operating within theatre before SAD, and that SAD are not technically military forces, but civilian paramilitaries ).

* On April 22, 2009, Ross Perot was made an Honorary Green Beret at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that also honored the OSS, Alamo Scouts and the First Special Service Force, elite World War Two units that were inducted into the " 1st Special Forces " Regiment.

On October 4, Yeltsin ordered Special Forces and elite army units to storm the parliament building, the " White House " as it is called.

During World War II, various British and Commonwealth units, including the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ), the No. 1 Demolition Squadron or ' PPA ' ( Popski's Private Army ), and the Special Air Service ( SAS ) were noted for their exploits in the deserts of Egypt, Libya and Chad using unarmored motor vehicles, often fitted with machine guns and cannons of various types.

However four years later these two special units would be joined under the same Brigade along with the Special Operations Forces ( Operações Especiais ).

Today these units are part of the agency's Special Operations Division.

In 1980, Brzezinski planned Operation Eagle Claw, which was meant to free the hostages in Iran using the newly created Delta Force and other Special Forces units.

The 185th Regiment is included in the Brigade Parachutists Folgore and is generally in charge of the training and preparation of units ; but it can be converted to other tasks depending on the technical and functional plan, from employment on land with the Commando Operations of Special Forces ( COFS ) and other units of river basin FS / FOS of the Army, with the Operating Group Incursori ( GOI ) of the Navy ( Marina Militare ), with the Incursori Unit of the Air Force and for some functions also with the Special Intervention Group ( GIS ) of the Police officers.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

In 1994, the prayers announced " allowed " by the 1982 Bishops Council of the Anglican Church of Korea was published in a second version of the Book of Common Prayers In 2004, the National Anglican Council published the third and the current Book of Common Prayers known as " seoung-gong-hwe gi-do-seo " or the " Anglican Prayers ", including the Daily Masses, Special Masses, Baptism, Confirmation, Funeral Mass, Wedding Mass, Rite of Ordination Mass, and all of the other events the Anglican Church of Korea celebrates.

Special cases of the Chinese remainder theorem were also known to Brahmagupta ( 7th century ), and appear in Fibonacci's Liber Abaci ( 1202 ).

Special pigments known as extenders and opacifiers are also used.

Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover, " an inveterate horseplayer " known to send Special Agents to place $ 100 bets for him, tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

Jakarta (), officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta (), is the capital and largest city of Indonesia.

The Lebanese Special Forces are also well known for killing and eating snakes with their bare hands at graduation ceremonies.

More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

The newest formulas of Mobilgas Special was advertised as offering " A Tune-Up in Every Tankful " due to a combination of chemicals known as the " Mobil Power Compound " which was designed to increase power, check pre-ignition ping, correct spark plug misfiring, control stalling and combat gumming up of carburetors.

Leo Marks describes inventing such a system for the British Special Operations Executive during World War II, though he suspected at the time that it was already known in the highly compartmentalized world of cryptography, as for instance at Bletchley Park.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) led the official investigation, known as OKBOMB, with Weldon L. Kennedy acting as Special Agent in charge.

Among these are the. 22 rimfire, a caliber popular for target shooting and teaching novice shooters ;. 38 Special and. 357 Magnum, known for its police use ; the. 44 Magnum, famous from Clint Eastwood's " Dirty Harry " films ; and the. 45 Colt, used in the Colt revolver of the Wild West.

In the commentary for the Special Edition Release of the film, George Lucas stated that had he known of the character's popularity, he would have made the death scene more impressive.

Special relativity ( SR, also known as the special theory of relativity or STR ) is the physical theory of measurement in an inertial frame of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein ( after the considerable and independent contributions of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others ) in the paper " On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies ".

Special nibble-copy programs such as Locksmith and Copy II Plus could sometimes duplicate these disks by using a reference library of known protection methods ; when protected programs were cracked they would be completely stripped of the copy protection system, and transferred onto a standard format disk that any normal Apple II copy program could read.

* 18 December 1873 — The International Commission of Constantinople establishes the Suez Canal Net Ton and the Suez Canal Special Tonnage Certificate ( as known today )

On the same Festival, but a few years earlier ( in 1975 ) his movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser won The Special Jury Prize ( also known as the ' Silver Palm ').

A selection of British Railways steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and return to Liverpool – the journey is known as the Fifteen Guinea Special ).

* November 26 – Iran-Contra Affair: U. S. President Ronald Reagan announces that on December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal ( they became known as the Tower Commission ).

Anderson is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie, as well as for her film roles ; as Vivian in Midnight Offerings, as Ginny in the cult classic slasher Happy Birthday to Me, and as Alex in the ABC Afterschool Special, Which Mother Is Mine ?, for which she won the Emmy Award in 1979.

The United States Navy's Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly known as the US Navy SEALs, are the U. S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command ( NSWC ) and SOCOM.

Special clips or pinch clamps, known as Keck clips, may be placed around the union of the joints to help keep them together.

Special courses after a feast or dinner which often involved a special room or outdoor gazebo ( sometimes known as a folly ) with a central table set with dainties of " medicinal " value to help with digestion.