1) Assault-team member 2) Atari 2600 game 3) British comics magazine 4) Capcom game 5) Commodore 64 game 6) Dirty Dozen marauder 7) Elite soldier 8) FM-7 game 9) March 1945 event 10) Member of a raiding party 11) Military man 12) Military personnel 13) Military raider 14) MSX game 15) Navy Seal 16) NEC PC-8801 game
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1) Raider 2) Ranger 3) Sas 4) Sayeret
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Commando is a soldier or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force often specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting or abseiling. Originally `a commando` was a type of combat unit, as opposed to an individual in that unit. In other languages, commando and kommando denote a `command`, including the sense of a milita...
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[pigeon] Commando was a pigeon used in service with the British armed forces during the Second World War to carry crucial intelligence. The pigeon carried out more than ninety missions during the war, and received the Dickin Medal (the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross) for three particularly notable missions in 1942. The medal was la...
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• (v. t.) In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.
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military unit—roughly equivalent to an infantry battalion—consisting of men especially trained to employ guerrilla-like shock tactics ranging from ... [4 related articles]
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Member of a specially trained, highly mobile military unit. The term originated in South Africa in the 19th century, where it referred to Boer military reprisal raids against Africans and, in the...
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Com·man'do noun [ Dutch See
Command ,
transitive verb ] In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a
commando of a hundred Boers. « The war bands, called
commandos , have played a great part in the . . . m...
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A commando is a member of a specially trained, highly mobile military unit. The term originated in South Africa in the 19th century, where it referred to Boer military reprisal raids against Africans and, in the South African Wars, against the British. Commando units have often carried out operations behind enemy lines. In Britain, the first comman...
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[
n] - a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids 2. [n] - an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory
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Series of wheeled armoured vehicles [US], Brandt 60mm Mortar [FR], Helicopter [UK], ECIA Mod C 60mm Mortar [ES], Esperanza 60mm Mortar [ES], ODE 60mm Mortar, Transport Aircraft [US]
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noun an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory
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Member of a specially trained, highly mobile military unit. The term originated in South Africa in the 19th century, where it referred to Boer military reprisal raids against Africans and, in the South African Wars, against the British. Commando units have often carried out operations behind enemy lines
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(in World War II) · any of the specially trained Allied military units used for surprise, hit-and-run raids against Axis forces. · a member of any of these units. Cf. ranger (def. 3).
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