Special Airship Service: Steampunk Style 6

Rogue, roving pirates of the air had become a scourge in the High Skies. Her Majesty's Government tasked the Steampunk Imperial Navy Dirigible Yeomanry (SINDY) to form a specialist anti-piracy force to counter the threat of Airship Pirates.

The Special Airship Service came into service in 1869 with a mandate to protect the sky lanes from piracy by any and all means.

Airship Troopers are elite airborne special operations soldiers. They are recruited from across the ranks of Her Majesty's Armed Forces and undergo rigorous selection, testing and training before becoming badged as SAS Operators.

Her Majesty's Special Airship Service 'The Chosen Ones'

They are equipped with the latest and best of everything. They are known for their gucci Steampunk style and fancy dress uniforms, sharply tailored close fitting tan leather trousers and jackets in Rifles Green. The Jackets feature tan leather braiding and facings. The ensemble is completed with a short shako type military hat or service dress cap, again in Rifles Green.

The Rifles Green is an homage and link to their antecedent Regiment, the 95th Rifles, and they consider themselves to be the 'Chosen Ones'. New recruits before becoming 'badged' wear smart but more modest light tan brown leather uniforms, and are of course known as 'crap hats'.

Special Airship Service new recruit "Crap Hat"

The Special Airship Service are mavericks and as such the establishment doesn't much approve of them, but they are too useful to ignore. The general public love them and affectionately call them them 'Sexy As Soldiers' but the rest of the Army and Navy tend to rather disparagingly call them 'Silly Arse Sailors'. Not to their faces though.

SAS - Sexy As Soldier, or Silly Arse Sailor?