Commando (disambiguation) explained

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
  • , a 2013 Bollywood action film, first installment in the series
  • , 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)
• , 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

• Cadillac Gage Commando, an amphibious armored personnel carrier
• Norton Commando, a British motorcycle
• Commando Jeep, a light tactical vehicle
• Dodge 100 "Commando", a truck made by Dodge in Britain
• Jeepster Commando, a line of Jeep models
• "Commando", a series of high-performance engines made by Plymouth
• Commando, a former yacht converted into commercial service; see

Other

• Commando (company), an American underwear company
• Commando (horse) (1898–1905), American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse
• Comandău (Kommandó in Hungarian), a commune in Covasna County, Romania
• Casio G'zOne Commando, an Android smartphone
• Colombo Commandos, a Sri Lankan domestic cricket team
• "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
• "To go commando", a slang term for not wearing underwear

See also

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