Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yakin Gulf ya fara bayan mamayewa
Kuwait da Iraki a ranar 2 ga watan Agusta 1990. Amsar sojojin Burtaniya ga mamayewar ita ce Operation Granby. Janar Norman Schwarzkopf ya dage cewa za a takaita amfani da dakarun musamman a cikin Operation Desert Storm. Wannan ya faru ne saboda kwarewarsa a Yaƙin Vietnam, inda ya ga ayyukan rundunar ta musamman sun yi mummunan kuskure, suna buƙatar dakarun gargajiya don ceton su. Laftanar Janar Peter de la Billière, mataimakin Schwarzkopf kuma tsohon memba na SAS, ya buƙaci turawa na Regiment, duk da cewa ba shi da matsayi na yau da kullun. SAS ta tura kimanin mambobi 300 tare da Squadrons A, B da D da kuma mambobi goma sha biyar daga R Squadron yankin 22 SAS squadron. Wannan shi ne mafi girma na SAS tun lokacin yakin duniya na biyu. Akwai rikice-rikice a cikin Rundunar game da ko za a tura rundunar A ko G zuwa Gulf. A watan Agusta 1990, rundunar A ta dawo ne daga turawa zuwa Colombia, yayin da G Squadron shine zaɓin da ya dace don turawa saboda suna kan jujjuyawar SP kuma sun dawo ne daga atisayen horo na hamada. Duk da haka, tun da A Squadron ba su da hannu a cikin Falklands War, an tura su.