Sentence examples for military commando from inspiring English sources

The blurring of military-intelligence boundaries includes former uniformed officers assuming top jobs in the intelligence apparatus and military commando units carrying out raids under C.I.A. command.

Only when the situation came to resemble a civil war did the Russian government remove Mr Zyazikov on October 30th and appoint a tough military commando instead.

"We love America!" gushed a former military commando, now a clothing seller, my first evening in the spiritual center of Mashhad.

But this is no military commando setting out to fight a distant foreign enemy or a band of ruthless terrorists; the heavily armed men are not soldiers.

Under an arrangement put in place as part of the more aggressive posture, a senior C.I.A. official based at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan was put in charge of C.I.A. and military commando missions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The first modern ones, created in the 1950s and used extensively through the '60s by military commando units, were the Rolex Submariner and the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms.

Sometimes he heard the voices of military commandos, who offered to defend him against this confusion.

The punishments began that afternoon, led by a unit of special military commandos, according to recruits and human rights researchers.

Rumsfeld planned and lobbied for more than two years before getting Presidential authority, in a series of findings and executive orders, to use military commandos for covert operations.

Earlier in the week, military commandos patrolled in Margalla Hills, which overlooks Islamabad and is considered one of the city's most vulnerable security points.

In case you've forgotten, the original show with Mr. T and George Peppard was about four military commandos turned outlaw mercenaries.