Sentence examples for a commando of from inspiring English sources

First, there were six near-simultaneous assaults on federal police stations around the state, including a dawn raid by a commando of about 50 gunmen with assault rifles and grenades on a station in the state capital, Morelia.

Lam Son Nao, a commando of the 65th Special Operations Group, was also an employee at the port facility.

Pretorius and Kruger led a commando of about 1,000 men south to help the Free State.

On April 24, 2010, at around 9 30 am, a commando of armed men entered the Camargo border bridge facility.

A surgeon working at the nearby Red Cross described to me how in November 2008 a commando of six men wearing black masks stormed into the ward, ordered everyone on the ground, and mowed down an 18-year-old who had been wheeled in 30 minutes earlier with a serious gunshot wound.

A Malian Army spokesman said that the bomber was part of a commando team of about 20 Islamist fighters who assaulted a bridge in marshland linking Gao to neighboring villages.

After training first at Ayr, Scotland, then farther north at Achnacarry near Fort William – where he and his comrades went through gruelling exercises, often under live gunfire – he was put in charge of a commando unit of his own, 6 Troop, 2 Commando, given a Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife and told to prepare his men for action.

Robinson was suggested as the leader of a commando force of sailors and Royal Marines tasked with destroying the battery and withdrawing in good order.

He went to one of the best schools in the country, where he excelled at sports and, as war intensified out in the bush, dreamed of becoming a commando, even of serving in the elite Selous Scouts.

Clandestine operations were carried out inside Iran that included seizing members of al-Quds, a commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

After an initially discounted 1957 tip exposed the whereabouts and alias of Eichmann, the Mossad leader Isser Harel sent a commando team of Mr. Malkin and six others to Buenos Aires to bring Eichmann back alive.