1.   She learned that an army buddy of her son, who serves in an elite commando unit, had died.

2.   A turning point came three years ago this month with the ambush of a raid by elite Israeli naval commandos in which a dozen were killed.

3.   Also for the first time since that conflict, Iraqi television has begun to broadcast announcements ordering reservists from elite commando units to report to their bases.

4.   Elite commando units were sent in to clear the square of its last stubborn resistance.

5.   I commanded our elite commando unit.

6.   In both cases, the American soldiers, including elite commandos, broke into buildings looking for valuable documents as much as for Taliban leaders.

7.   Little was known about the elite commando unit that staged the raid.

8.   She dispatched an elite commando unit to one central district after receiving reports of widespread violence there.

9.   The base is also home to the elite anti-terrorist commando unit known as the Delta Force.

10.   The marines are elite British commando troops whose presence in Afghanistan has been increasing recently.