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On the way, he connected with another retired general and a group of commandoes.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

He and several other residents, and a security official, said Afghan commandoes had launched an operation to clear the insurgents from the city.

From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2021

"Six-hundred men - military; they had army, commandoes, Royal Air Force, bloodhounds, Anson planes - and they still failed to find the twins."

From BBC • May 25, 2018

The US military believes someone in the village may have tipped off attackers to the presence of US commandoes and Nigerien forces, setting in motion the ambush.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2017

Large commandoes were gathered together with a rapidity which would have been marvellous had the Boers not designedly brought about the issue of war, and the frontier of the northern angle of Natal was threatened.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis