As part of the mentoring activities , NZSAS personnel were among the forces which responded to the January 2010 attack in central Kabul . Two personnel , one of them Corporal " Steve " David Steven Askin , were injured during the terrorist attack against the Inter-Continental hotel in Kabul on 29 June 2011 , where members of the NZSAS also provided ' helo sniping ' support . Askin and one other serviceman involved at the Inter-Continental were awarded the New Zealand Gallantry Star , the second-highest award after the Victoria Cross . Two members of the unit were killed during the deployment while mentoring operations . On 19 August 2011 , Corporal Douglas Grant was killed when responding to an attack on the British Council building in the centre of Kabul , where the NZSAS was required to utilise specialist entry capabilities and Lance Corporal Leon Smith was killed on 28 September 2011 during an operation in Wardak Province
January 2010 attack in central Kabul
January 2010 attack in central Kabul
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