A commando is an elite light infantry or special forces soldier, trained for quick raid operations, or a group of such soldiers.

Commando or Commandos may also refer to:

Military

Units

  • Royal Naval Commandos, a British World War II commando unit
  • 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
  • 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
  • Commandos, nickname of a 10th Mountain Division's brigade

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
  • Commando: A One Man Army, a 2013 Bollywood action film, first installment in the series
  • 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 stealth-oriented real-time tactics computer game series
  • Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, the first game in the series, released in 1998
  • Commando (video game), a 1985 video game (unrelated to the film)
  • Commando: Steel Disaster, 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 Vanessa Paradis from the 2000 album Bliss
  • "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)