Home / New ZealandDavid FisherSenior writer·NZ Herald·8 Jul, 2026 05:00 PM6 mins to read‌There is only one path into the New Zealand Special Air Service. 243 candidates, just 31 succeeded. A serious training incident led to an NZSAS soldier being shot high in the chest. The inquiry found “extraordinarily unlikely circumstances” to blame and no one who could remember a similar incident. David Fisher reports.

A New Zealand Special Air Service soldier was seriously wounded in a “freak accident” during

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