Sentence examples for joining the commando from inspiring English sources

He served on operations in Helmand with 19th Regiment Royal Artillery before joining the Commando Gunners and earning his green beret.

Tells how the men are selected; every man is a volunteer and started out in an ordinary regiment; nobody can join the Commandos from civilian life.

He served in an antiaircraft brigade evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, then joined the commandos at the end of that year.

It is difficult to generalize about the reasons ex-Republican Guard generals and soldiers who are Sunni have joined the commandos.

The commando were informed they would be joining the 4th Special Service Brigade to replace No. 46 (Royal Marine) Commando.

He attended the Kedourie agricultural college and later joined the Palmah, the commando force of the mainstream Jewish underground.

Shia militia members from all over the country arrived in Baghdad "by the lorry-load" to join the new commandos.

After the Pentagon lifted a ban on Shia militias joining the security forces, the special police commando (SPC) membership was increasingly drawn from violent Shia groups such as the Badr brigades.

When he was a teen-ager, Rabin joined the Palmach, a commando unit of the Haganah, the Zionist militia, and was twenty-five when, in 1947, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine.

He was arrested for the first time in August 1941, but escaped and made his way to Britain, where he joined the Norwegian Independent Company, a commando unit made up of Norwegians.

The British have also said they are planning to join the United States in commando raids in Afghanistan, but have added that the final form of a ground campaign is still being decided.