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Commando Hunt, Operation
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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2001
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Commando Hunt, Operation a bombing campaign in the
Vietnam War running from 1968 to 1972 that was intended to delay and disorganize the enemy. Targets included supply and storage areas along the
Ho Chi Minh Trail, as well as supply areas in Cambodia and Laos.
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Commandos get ready to face taliban ; Southern Afghanistan has been picked up and dropped on to Salisbury Plain.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 7/30/2008; 700+ words
; ...Plymouth's Citadel, 59 Commando Squadron Royal Engineers...well as their sister unit 45 Commando Royal Marines, based in Scotland...to add to the teams. The Commandos will also be supported for...personnel deployed as part of 3 Commando Brigade. While there has...
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Commandos wear badge with pride
Newspaper article from: Plymouth Evening Herald, The; 9/11/2008; 509 words
; ...badges provide the commandos with their own identity...event yesterday at 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery...Royal Citadel, Army Commandos from 29 Cdo and Stonehouse...recognised as Army Commandos within 3 Commando Brigade and that means...
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Commandos seek payment Lawyer criticizes delay in $20m for Vietnamese who aided Army
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/2/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...tortured. The last commando held captive was...of these secret commandos while working on...acknowledge the commando mission, but Mattes...systematically listed the commandos as being killed...20 million to the commandos and their survivors...about $40,000 per commando. Kerry was on ...
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VIETNAMESE COMMANDOS AWAIT BACK PAY.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 4/20/1997; 700+ words
; ...government to pay each commando. But in its annual...regulations governing how the commandos would be paid, even...government declared all the commandos dead to avoid paying...even acknowledge the commando mission, but Mattes...systematically listed the commandos as being killed in action...
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Afghan Commandos Emerge; U.S.-Trained Force Plays Growing Role in Fighting Insurgents
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/19/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...fight alongside the commandos. The creation of...000-strong Afghan commando force marks a major...putting the Afghan commandos in the lead -- coaching...planned Afghan army commando battalions -- with 640 commandos each -- have begun...
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Commando killed in Afghanistan on final deployment
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 3/10/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Michael Smith, 39, of 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery...was stalwart member of 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery having...respected by his peers and commandos. He epitomised the Army commando in body and spirit." Some...
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Pak Elite Force's female commandos being forced to do men's jobs.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 3/27/2009; 598 words
; ...to VVIPs, and female commandos often served duties...VIPs. However, lady commandos told the Daily Times...sensitive duties. A female commando said she and her lady...January. Another lady commando claimed that she had...of the match, female commandos were told to patrol...
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Game of commandos skills
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...shines to warn ships. If the commandos are hiding in the bushes or...high alert. After playing Commandos 2 for more than 72 hours...on the use of skills. Each commando has duties to perform: navel...my first time playing the Commandos series. Some parts of the...
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Pakistan Commandos received little support from Kashmiris in 1965: Gohar
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/2/2005; 700+ words
; ...Gibraltar". But, when the commandos entered the Valley...be "doctored" and commandos were trapped. According to the book, every commando sent to Kashmir was...additional ammunition. Each commando was supposed to keep...once the Pakistani commandos entered Kashmir and...
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`Tough commando training vital'
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 5/17/2008; ; 528 words
; ...of Malaysia Veteran Commandos Club (Federal Territory...were tortured during commando training. He defended the methods used to train commandos, saying that Macang...journey to qualify as a commando. "What was published...a kindergarten for commandos. It's 100 per cent...
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commando
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...nonstate-sponsored commandos. The United States has active commando, or Special Operations...counterinsurgency operations. Soviet commandos ( Spetsnaz ) fought in...particularly proficient commando units. Commandos today often use special...
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Middle East Commando
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Middle East Commando, formed in October 1941 from L Detachment...3 Troop) and No. 51 Middle East Commando, and the Special Boat Section . It...Troop (which also called itself No. 11 Commando) in a raid on what was incorrectly...
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Commando Order
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Commando Order, issued on Hitler's instructions on 18 October 1942, after a...x2014;the British replied in kind—and Hitler ordered that any commandos or parachutists captured by the Wehrmacht on similar raids were to be handed...
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commandos
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
commandos, see UK , 7(e).
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Commando Hunt, Operation
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Commando Hunt, Operation a bombing campaign in the Vietnam War running from 1968 to 1972 that was intended to delay and disorganize the enemy. Targets included supply and storage areas along the Ho Chi Minh Trail , as well as supply areas in Cambodia and Laos.
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