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commando
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2| Royal Marines from [[40 Commando on patrol in the Sangin area of Afghanistan are pictured]]A commando is a combatant, or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force, specially trained for carrying out raids and operating in small teams behind enemy lines.
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thumb|upright=1.2| Royal Marines from [[40 Commando on patrol in the Sangin area of Afghanistan are pictured]]A commando is a combatant, or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force, specially trained for carrying out raids and operating in small teams behind enemy lines.
== Etymology == thumb|Cape Mounted Burghers, or "kommando," assembling for action in 1846 during the Seventh Xhosa War. The term originally referred to the mounted infantry of this type.
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