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    Bluff Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South...
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    The Commando System was a mostly voluntary, part-time force of the South African Army, but in their role as local militia the units were often deployed...
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  • Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...
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    29 Commando Regiment sited between Fitzroy and Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, June 1982. A gunner from 29 Commando Regiment, during a Commando Conditioning...
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    Haddow's position. 601st Commando tried to move forward to rescue 602nd Commando Company on Estancia Mountain. Spotted by 42 Commando, they were engaged with...
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    The Bluff Cove air attacks occurred 8 June 1982, during the Falklands War. British troop transport ships were bombed by Argentine Air Force (FAA) Douglas...
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  • Tomas Victor Fernandez's 2nd Assault Section from 602 Commando Company suffered two killed on Bluff Cove Peak during the Mount Kent Skirmish, First Lieutenant...
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  • seize Bluff Cove Peak. The radio operator, First Sergeant Vicente Alfredo Flores,sent out the following radio message from the slopes of Bluff Cove Peak...
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    Umvoti Commando Weenan-Kliprivier Commando Griqualand East Commando Bluff Commando Durban North Commando Durban South Commando Highway Commando Oribi Commando...
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  • Algeria and in mainland France, the OAS having a “Metro” branch, by the “Commando Delta”. In Spain, Pierre Lagaillarde, who was still a fugitive, stood with...
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    2nd Assault Section, 602 Commando Company trying to exit the area after having taking cover among the boulders and caves on Bluff Cove Peak the day before...
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    "If Mr. Chamberlain was really playing a game of bluff, it must be confessed that he was bluffing from a very weak hand." Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great...
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  • about 12 Argentine Commandos (Captain Tomás Fernández's 2nd Assault Section, 602 Commando Company) tried to get up the summit of Bluff Cove Peak, but were...
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    games, all produced by LucasArts. He played the clone commando "Boss" in Star Wars: Republic Commando (2005), voiced all the troopers in Star Wars: Battlefront...
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  • Gendarmerie Company, and on Mount Simon and Bluff Cove Peak by two sections of 602 Commando Company. The 602 Commando Company's 1st Assault Section of thirteen...
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  • (1965), Mera Saaya (1966), Ek Phool Do Mali (1969) 1961 Saira Banu Junglee Bluff Master (1963), Padosan (1968), Hera Pheri (1976) Tanuja Samarth Hamari Yaad...
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  • Lima'". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com. "The curious case of former NSG commando & RAW agent Lucky Bisht". Moneycontrol. 8 July 2023. Durant, Michael J...
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    David Stirling (category British Army Commandos officers)
    September 1939. In June 1940, he volunteered for the new No. 8 (Guards) Commando under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Laycock, which became part of Force Z (later...
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  • International ISIS campaign Location: Syria United States Revolutionary Commando Army Authenticity and Development Front Free Syrian Army Autonomous Administration...
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    built around his 3rd Commando Brigade, which had three battalions of the Royal Marines (40 Commando, 42 Commando and 45 Commando), and supporting units...
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    (303 km) journey from Lydenburg back to Pretoria. A similar-sized Boer commando force, led by Francois Gerhardus Joubert, was ordered to intercept and...
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    The assaulting British forces were the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, 42 Commando, Royal Marines Mortar platoon and four light tanks of the Blues and Royals...
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    area between the shingle bank and the bluffs was both wired and mined, and mines were also scattered on the bluff slopes. Coastal troop deployments, comprising...
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    combat in Burma, and to General Stillwell and to Colonel Cochran's 1st Air Commando Group. He left the service with the rank of Colonel. He was a member of...
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  • "Orientation" (#157, April 2015) by John Jackson Miller (14 BBY) "Rebel Bluff" (#158, June 2015) by Michael Kogge (4 BBY) "Kindred Spirits" (#159, July...
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    by the Brigade Headquarters until it moved ashore. In addition to HQ 3 Commando Brigade, it could also be used by the army Brigade designated for amphibious...
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    After completing the course, he returned to India and was posted to the Commando School at Belgaum. After a year at the school, he moved back to his battalion...
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  • were injured, three students and the school's principal. Anti-terrorist commandos were sent to the scene and the shooter was arrested. The perpetrator's...
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  • boom to Reeve Aleutian. In 1957, an S-43 was traded in, two Curtiss C-46 Commandos were purchased from Cordova Airlines and Grumman G-21 Goose was leased...
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  • All Dogs Go to Heaven, Narrator in the All Grown Up! episode "Blind Man's Bluff"), dies at age 70. Frank Fritz, American antique picker and reality television...
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