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Contents 1 Going commando 2 Archived discussion from WP:RM 3 Any more pics? 4 Rangers? 5 Norsk Hydro Assault 6 UK Post 1945/ Irish Commandos

[edit] Going commando

Perhaps there should be a mention at the bottom of "going commando" being slang for not wearing undergarments. (Posted to Talk:Commando (military) by 66.102.74.128 on Sep 9, 2004. ADH (t&m) 20:33, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC))

[edit] Archived discussion from WP:RM

Commando (military) → Commando

And by extension, Commando → Commando (disambiguation)

Are we really unable to discern a primary meaning, here? ADH (t&m) 20:40, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

• Support. Death to imbecilic disambiguations. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 04:26, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. —Michael Z. 07:29, 2005 Jan 7 (UTC)
• Support. The three other uses are minor, and derivative of the first. Easy. — Ford 20:16, 2005 Jan 7 (UTC)
• Support. Philip Baird Shearer 18:19, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support', what Ford and Tony said. Neutrality^talk 21:17, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Any more pics?

Other than naval Jaubert?

[edit] Rangers?

are the US rangers a commando force? they are light infantry —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.31.33.21 (talk • contribs) 12:19, 27 June 2007

Im not sure but id say they are. there not really special forces like thier US Army special forces "brothers". (ForeverDEAD 19:38, 14 August 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Norsk Hydro Assault

.. damaged the Norwegian heavy water facility in Norway, in 1941. This effectively took Germany out of the Nuclear Arms development race, leading up to the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The hydrogen facility itself could never be damaged seriously. It is an open secret, that the most "efficient" commando operation against this facility led to the killing of hundreds of Norsk Hydro employees. After the railway train with "modified" tank waggons had arrived on the site, it exploded just right on time of Norsk Hydro's shift changeover. Hundreds of people were present within short distance of the train. Anyhow, the fact that a German atomic bomb was never build (or never deployed) must have other reasons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.157.42.213 (talk) 16:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK Post 1945/ Irish Commandos

I'm removing this section as the only references I can find to Irish Commandos in google are to the Boer War, and no references to the Col. Millar. Also the section is badly written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.217.19 (talk) 21:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)