• 45 Commando Royal Marines (pronounced "four-five commando") is a battalion sized unit of the British Royal Marines and subordinate unit within 3 Commando...
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    A commando is a combatant, or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force, specially trained for carrying out raids and operating...
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  • 40 Commando RM is a battalion-sized formation of the British Royal Marines and subordinate unit within 3 Commando Brigade, the principal Commando formation...
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    No. 62 Commando or the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) was a British Commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War. The unit was formed...
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    3 Commando Brigade (3 Cdo Bde), previously called the 3rd Special Service Brigade, is a commando formation of the British Armed Forces. It is composed...
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    40 Commando and 45 Commando with forming two Littoral Response Groups (LRGs) which will be permanently deployed, though other units from 3 Commando Brigade...
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  • 42 Commando is a fighting unit within the Royal Marines 3 Commando Brigade. Based at Norton Manor, Royal Marines Condor and 42 Commando are based at Bickleigh...
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    Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one...
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  • consisted of the Royal Marines of 45 Commando, the anti-tank troop from 40 Commando with support from six 105-mm guns of 29 Commando Regiment. The 2nd Battalion...
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  • This is a list of current commando units. 601 Commando Company 602 Commando Company 603 Commando Company Amphibious Commandos Group, belonging to the Marine...
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  • Commando 21 was the name given to the reorganisation of the Royal Marines' (RM) two battalion-sized Commando units; namely 40 Commando; and 45 Commando...
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    (Royal Marine) Commandos, 43 Commando formed the 2nd Special Service Brigade. Throughout the course of 1943–45, No. 43 (Royal Marine) Commando served in Italy...
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    The Commandos, also known as the British Commandos, were formed during the Second World War in June 1940, following a request from Winston Churchill, for...
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    Ford, aged 30, from 45 Commando Royal Marines, died on Monday 15 January 2007. Lance Corporal Ford died when elements of 45 Commando Royal Marines were...
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    would withdraw from the area. On 29 April, 3rd Commando Brigade took back command of 45 Commando, 29th Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery and the 1st ACG for...
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  • were later relieved by A Coy (40 Cdo RM) in mid March 2002, prior to 45 Commando Royal Marines deployment in Operation Anaconda. A Coy were subsequently...
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    evacuated 74 seriously wounded men. On November 5, 1956, the Royal Marines' 45 Commando performed the world's first combat helicopter insertion with air assault...
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  • Captain Tom Sawyer, aged 26, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, and Corporal Danny Winter, aged 28, Zulu Company 45 Commando Royal Marines, were killed...
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  • Commando is a 1985 American action thriller film directed by Mark L. Lester and produced by Joel Silver. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role...
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  • 41 Commando or No. 41 (Royal Marine) Commando was a unit of the Royal Marines trained as Commandos during the Second World War. They were part of the...
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    at RM Condor. 45 Commando, Royal Marines Royal Marines Police, 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group 7 (Sphinx) Battery. 29 Commando Regiment, Royal...
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  • Forces where officers and other ranks are trained at the same location, the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM) at Lympstone, Devon. Much of the...
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    and defence minister Bob Ainsworth from 2007 to 2009. He commanded 45 Commando on Operation Herrick 14 in Afghanistan in 2011, during which he was promoted...
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    No. 30 Commando, from 1943 to 1946 known as 30 Assault Unit, was a British Commando unit during the Second World War, originally formed to gather intelligence...
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  • while killing or capturing all of its 72 defenders. British commandos of No. 45 Commando assaulted by helicopter, meeting stiff resistance, with shore...
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    No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando was a commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War, recruited largely from non-British personnel from...
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    No. 4 Commando was a battalion-sized British Army commando unit, formed in 1940 early in the Second World War. Although it was raised to conduct small-scale...
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    45 Commando and 7 (Sphinx) Commando Battery RM Tamar, HMNB Devonport – 47 Commando (Raiding Group) RM Norton Manor, Taunton, Somerset – 40 Commando RM...
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  • follows: 1 Commando Brigade 45 (RM) Commando 2 Commando Brigade 40 (RM) Commando 43 (RM) Commando 3 Commando Brigade 42 (RM) Commando 44 (RM) Commando 4 Commando...
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  • No. 11 (Scottish) Commando was a battalion-sized commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Formed in Scotland, members of No. 11...
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