A town of southern Uganda on Lake Victoria. At its airport in1976 Israeli commando forces rescued most of the hostages held aboard an Air France plane by Palestinian hijackers. Population, 21,289. 恩德比乌干达南部城市,位于维多利亚湖畔。1976年在其机场,以色列突击队救出了被巴勒斯坦人劫持的法航班机上的大多数人质。人口21,289
Trainee commandos are put through an exhausting assault course. 受训的突击队员要参加令人筋疲力尽的突击课程.
The commandos made a lightning strike behind enemy lines and destroyed the radar station. 突击队员在敌后来了一个突然袭击。摧毁了雷达站。
commando commandoes
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a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
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an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory
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Commando \Com*man"do\, n. [D. See {Command}, v. t.] 1. In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.
The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. --James Bryce. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a usually small military unit trained to perform special missions, often behind enemy lines, and usually employing hit-and-run tactics. Such units often have the destruction of fixed targets, such as enemy installations, as their mission, in contrast to normal combat units which engage the enemy army directly. [PJC]
3. a member of a commando[2] unit. [PJC]
U.S. officials insist Israel didn't consult them before it decided last week to kidnap Sheik Obeid in a commando raid.
"And here he is living in my house," Mrs. Nelson exclaimed Monday after authorities said self-styled commando Yusef Abdullah Rahman had confessed to one killing and sniper attacks that wounded three people on eastern Long Island.
Palestinian guerrillas battled Israeli air, naval and commando forces for nine hours Friday in Israel's deepest raid into Lebanon in five years.
On Saturday, South Korea's defense minister suggested Seoul might launch a commando raid on North Korea's nuclear facilities if they weren't opened to international inspection.
The Iraqis keep their four uranium-enrichment centrifuges at different sites deep underground, which might require commando raids or tactical nuclear warheads to destroy them, some military experts say.
In March, the Navy said its SEAL commando forces would not switch to the Beretta 9mm because of the slide failures.
In a related development, the Army spokesman said the Navy's SEAL commando forces had "backtracked" and decided not to switch to the Beretta 9mm, in part because of concern over the slide failures.
A third member of the Araba commando unit, Juan Carlos Arruti Azpitarte, was arrested, along with two other occupants of the truck, the ministry said.
The accord said the Air Force would transfer the responsibility for providing helicopter support for commando operations to the Army.
Rafsanjani also told Khan that the United States should pressure Israel to release Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, 33, who was abducted July 28 from his home in south Lebanon by an Israeli commando unit.
At the same time, he believes that if the Soviets invade Western Europe, the allies should reply with deep aerial strikes and commando and partisan raids into Eastern Europe.
It demands that all paramilitary and ethnic forces and commando units be disbanded, particularly the South-West Africa Territorial Force and Koevoet, a dreaded counterinsurgency unit.
In all, Ben Yahia said, the preliminary investigation had determined the "unequivocable responsibility of the Israeli government" for Saturday's assassination of al-Wazir by a commando team.
The strategy of high-profile security measures, including staging and restaging anti-terrorist commando exercises for foreign cameras, was meant to reassure visitors.
Another said he crawled like a commando beneath the stage to escape the screaming girls.
A team of selected volunteers from the Gator Brigade went through a French commando school in Martinique this summer.
A PLO source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the entourage will include the widow of Abu Jihad, Arafat's top military chief who was assassinated at his Tunis home in April by a commando unit.
In a 1979 raid by PLF gunmen on the Israeli town of Nahariya, the four Israeli deaths included a four-year-old girl; a PLF commando crushed her skull with a machine gun.
Shortly before that, helicopters airlifted about five infantry and commando battalions, including a handful of Soviet advisers, from the installation, the rebels said.
It said the attack was carried out by the "Jose Manuel Sevillano commando."
The new "Allon units" _ apparently named ofter Yigal Allon, a founder of pre-state elite commando units _ came under attack from both ends of the political spectrum.
Recently, a commando of the Front even took to distributing female underwear for free at a Santiago college.
The Fox and Scorpion special commando teams flew in from Mexico City the following day.
UNITA, standing for the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, said in a statement distributed in Lisbon its actions included a commando raid Wednesday night on workshops at the railroad station in the central city of Huambo.
President Bush said Friday he could not condone the commando raid and did not know if it would help U.S. Marine Lt.
The Asian analysts said the volunteers were probably receiving training in commando missions to be launched behind the lines of the multinational forces.
"We won't say all the problems are resolved, but I think it is coming," the president said, adding that 12 of the 414 soldiers attached to the commando unit had failed to return to base.
The story recounts how General Lyons led a commando team in 1983 to Southeast Asia, rescued 285 prisoners of war and returned with the remains of 300 servicemen.
Police blame the Araba commando unit for at least six assasinations and the national head of the civil guard, Luis Roldan, said the unit may have been responsible for the Sept. 12 assassination of prosecutor Carmen Tagle.
Others said they were recruited in West Germany and Turkey and underwent commando training at a secret base.