Commando (disambiguation)

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A commando is an elite light infantry or special forces soldier, trained for quick raid operations. Commando is also an alternate term for military special forces.

Commando may also refer to:

Military

Units

• British Commandos, a special operations force created during World War II
• Special Services Group, the primary special operations force of the Pakistan Army.
• Portuguese Army Commandos, special forces unit of the Portuguese Army
• 3 Commando Brigade, the main manoeuvre formation of the British Royal Marines
• Commando Raiders, Laotian pathfinders and special forces during the Laotian Civil War
• Boer Commando, (from 1658), the basic unit of organisation of the militia of the Boer people of South Africa.

Vehicle

• Cadillac Gage Commando, an amphibious armored personnel carrier

Weapon

• Colt CAR-15 "Commando", a short-barrel assault rifle

Aircraft

• Curtiss C-46 Commando, an American transport aircraft

Other

• Commando (pigeon), a World War II messenger pigeon who received the Dickin Medal

Popular culture

Films

• Commando (1964 film), the American International Pictures title of Marcia o Crepa (1962)
• Commandos (1968 film), a World War II action film
• Commando (1985 film), a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Commando (1988 film), a Bollywood film by Babbar Subhash
• Commando (2013 film), a Bollywood action film

Games

• "Commando", an alternative name for Fugitive (game)
• Commando (role-playing game), a 1979 role-playing game
• Commandos (series), a 1998 stealth-oriented real-time tactics computer game series
• Commando (video game), a 1985 video game (unrelated to the film)
• A Global Defense Initiative unit in the Command & Conquer franchise
• Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, a 2003 video game
• Star Wars: Republic Commando, a 2005 Star Wars video game

Music

• "Commando", a song by Ramones from the album Leave Home
• "Commando", a song by Satyricon from the 2008 album The Age of Nero

Television

• Commandos, a meerkat group featured in Meerkat Manor
• "Commando", the nickname of Steve Willis, a trainer on the Australian TV program The Biggest Loser

Other uses

• Comandău (Kommandó in Hungarian), a commune in Covasna County, Romania
• Commando (book), an autobiography of guitarist and songwriter Johnny Ramone
• Commando (comics), a British war comic
• Going commando, to go without underwear
• Commando: A Boer Journal Of The Boer War (book), a personal account of the Second Boer War by Deneys Reitz.

Cricket

• Colombo Commandos, a Sri Lankan domestic cricket team

Vehicles

• Commando Jeep, a light tactical vehicle
• Dodge 100 "Commando", a truck made by Dodge in Britain
• Jeepster Commando, a line of Jeep models
• Norton Commando, a motorcycle made by Norton from 1967 to 1976
• "Commando", a series of high-performance engines made by Plymouth

Other

• Casio G'zOne Commando, an Android smartphone
• Commando (horse) (1898–1905), American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse
• "Commando" connectors, a term for IEC 60309 power connectors
• A GUI tool for running command lines in the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop and later in A/UX
• Commando, an American underwear company

See also

• Kommando