Commando (disambiguation)

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A commando is an elite light infantry or special forces soldier, trained for quick raid operations.

Commando or Commandos may also refer to:

Military

Units

  • Royal Naval Commandos
  • Royal Marine Commandos
  • Commandos Marine
  • Marine Commando Force
  • Garud Commandos
  • Para Commandos
  • Commandos (Singapore Army) of the Singapore Army
  • British Commandos, a special operations force created during World War II
  • 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

Materiel

  • Colt CAR-15 "Commando", a short-barrel assault rifle
  • Curtiss C-46 Commando, an American transport aircraft
  • Commando (aircraft), a very long range Consolidated Liberator II aircraft

Other

  • Commando (pigeon), a World War II messenger pigeon who received the Dickin Medal
  • an alternate term for military special forces

Entertainment

Film and TV

  • Commando (1962 film), the American International Pictures title of the film Marcia o Crepa
  • Commandos (film), a 1968 World War II action film
  • Commando (1985 film), a film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Commando (1988 film), a Bollywood film by Babbar Subhash
  • Commando (film series), Indian action film series
    • Commando: A One Man Army, a 2013 Bollywood action film, first installment in the series
    • Commando 2: The Black Money Trail, a 2017 sequel to 2013 film
    • Commando 3 (film), a 2019 sequel to 2017 film
  • Commando (TV series), an Indian action thriller series
  • Commandos, a meerkat group featured in Meerkat Manor
  • "Commando", the nickname of Steve Willis, a trainer on the Australian TV program The Biggest Loser

Games

  • Commando, an alternative name for the game Fugitive
  • Commando (role-playing game), a 1979 role-playing game
  • Commandos (series), a 1998–2006 stealth-oriented real-time tactics computer game series
  • Commando (video game), a 1985 video game (unrelated to the film)
  • Commando: Steel Disaster, a shoot em' up Nintendo DS game

Music

  • Commandos (album), a 1986 album by Stage Dolls
  • Commando (Niska album), a 2017 album by Niska
  • "Commando", a song by Ramones from the album Leave Home
  • "Commando", a song by Satyricon from the 2008 album The Age of Nero

Literature

  • Commando (book), an autobiography of guitarist and songwriter Johnny Ramone
  • Commando (comics), a British war comic
  • Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, a personal account of the Second Boer War by Deneys Reitz

Vehicles

Other

See also

  • Kommando, a generic German word meaning unit or command
  • Commando 3 (disambiguation)
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