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Landscape shot of the Commando Memorial. The memorial is dedicated to the men during World War Two who trained for hazardous missions in this environment. Since then the monument has been associated with wars past and present.
A British Royal Marine commando, assigned to the 42 Commando simulates providing cover during a boarding training exercise aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21), July 30, 2024.
The Royal Marines were aboard New York conducting joint visit, board, search and seizure training with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC).
New York is conducting operations in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF) area of operations as part of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (WSP ARG)-24th MEU (SOC).
The WSP ARG-24th MEU (SOC) is on a scheduled deployment to the NAVEUR-NAVAF area of operations, supporting U.S., Allied and partner interests in the region, including in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, to continue promoting regional stability and deterring aggression.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse Turner
1/6th scale custom figure.
I finished these two Commandos a few weeks back but hadn't got round to posting them, so here they are.
Again using Tony Barton's headsculpts, along with DML uniforms and equipment, webbing etc painted. The jerkin was also given a wash with acrylics. The helmet is a hybrid custom job.
Pictured: 17 Feb 2026 - Royal Marines from 40 Commando on the ground after being inserted on a joint raid by 847 Naval Air Squadron Wildcat HMA Mk2 Helicopter at Elvegårdsmoen military training camp, Norway.
Royal Marines from 40 Commando were inserted on a joint raid with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps at Elvegårdsmoen military training camp using Wildcats from 847 Naval Air Squadron and a Dutch NH90 from 820 Squadron.
Aircraft from Commando Helicopter Force have deployed to Northern Norway to Royal Norwegian Air Force base, Bardufoss, in Northern Norway, for their annual workout in the Arctic Circle, Operation Clockwork.
The Commando Merlin and Wildcat operators will master their environment – testing themselves and their machines against the extreme cold.
Personnel will carry out survival training, ensuring they can live and move in the wilderness – learning to navigate, ski and build shelters and forage for food – before conducting sorties over Norway’s fjords and mountains.
Intensive flying operations will ensure the Commando Helicopter Force is able to effectively operate their aircraft in the Arctic – testing pilots, observers and engineers alike.
All of this work will lead up to Exercise Cold Response – the largest military exercises in the country in 2026, which will demonstrate the unity of NATO and the ability of the alliance to deter threats in the high north.
Photographer: POPhot Lee Blease
Belgian Para-Commandos during a Mass Parachute Drop exercise using Belgian Air Force C130 transports in Portugal - 2012
As I've mentioned before, Lucy gets car sick when we put her in her crate on the backseat. The crate was necessary because without it she would climb onto the driver's lap in the front seat which would not be safe.
So, I decided to get Lucy a doggie seat belt for the backseat. We tried it out on a short trip on Saturday and she really seemed to like sitting in the middle of the backseat and looking out the windshield. She even drooled less. Things might be looking up.
One of Scotland's best-known monuments, war memorial and tourist attraction offering views of Ben Nevis and Aonach Mòr, made by Scott Sutherland in 1951.
Belgian Para-commandos from 3 Parachute Battalion and 2 Commandos part of the Immediate Reaction Capability (IRC - Para-Commando Regiment) during exercise Active trip 2010 -Para-commando defending Ursel airfield
Strobist Info: two shoemount flashes w/ white umbrellas behind model on the BG. One WL 1600 into large octabox above and in front of Manoel
Belgian Para-Commandos during a Mass Parachute Drop exercise using Belgian Air Force C130 transports in Portugal - 2012
Bill Millin at his home in Devon five years ago. The Scot played his comrades ashore at Sword Beach amid heavy gunfire. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA
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The Scot played his comrades ashore at Sword Beach amid heavy gunfire, armed with nothing but the traditional dirk dagger he kept in his stocking.
The much feted veteran, whose actions were immortalised in the film The Longest Day, lived in a nursing home in Dawlish, Devon, before he died in Torbay hospital aged 88.
He was serving with 1st Commando Brigade when he landed at the beach in Normandy on 6 June 1944.
At the request of his commanding officer, Lord Lovat, he played on despite the great danger surrounding him.
Ken Sturdy, chairman of the Torbay and South Devon branch of the Normandy Veterans Association, paid tribute to the piper.
"He was what we would nowadays call a celebrity," he said. "But he wouldn't like that as he was very modest.
"He used to joke that when the enemy heard him coming they panicked at the sound of the pipes. He was friendly and warm and had a quiet sense of humour."
Sturdy, a 90-year-old veteran who served with the Royal Navy, described hearing Millin's bagpipes when he landed on the beach that day.
"Among all the noise and bedlam going on I could hear bagpipes. I thought I had imagined them and it wasn't until later that I realised I really had heard them.
"Bill marched boldly with his pipes in a situation that was quite unbelievable. It was in the heat of battle, there was a lot of gunfire and he was unarmed except for his pipes and his dirk.
"It was certainly heroic. People were dying around him and he was in the most alarming situation so he must have been a very cool young fellow."
Millin returned to Normandy a number of times to commemorate the historic events of 1944.
His family is understood to be planning a private funeral for him, with a remembrance service to be held at a later date.
Pictured: 30 Commando’s Surveillance Reconnaissance Squadron (SRS) Ice Climbing in Norway.
The UK Minister for the Armed Forces Alistair (Al) Carns, met up with 30 Commando’s Surveillance Reconnaissance Squadron (SRS).
A Colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve, he took part in ice climbing, cross- country skiing and drove an Over Snow Reconnaissance Vehicle (OSRV).
The Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (SRS) is an elite Royal Marines unit within the 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group; they act as the "eyes and ears" of the UK Commando Force.
The UK and Norway have committed to stepping up their joint military partnership in the Arctic, as NATO allies look to strengthen security across the region against threats from Russia.
Photographer: LPhot Stainer-Hutchins
Located in moorland beside the A82 trunk road, 1¼ miles (2 km) northwest of Spean Bridge, is the Commando Memorial. This 5.1m (17-foot) high memorial was designed by Scott Sutherland, of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (Dundee) and unveiled by HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002) on 12th September 1952. The three soldiers which comprise the memorial look out from their plinth over Leanachan Forest to the peaks of Aonach Mor and Ben Nevis. It commemorates the elite force known as the 'Commandos', which was set up in 1940 on the orders of Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) to harry the axis forces and regain the initiative on the part of Britain. The force trained in the area around this monument, with their Training Centre at Achnacarry, 4 miles (6 km) to the northwest.
The plinth of the memorial records the Commando's motto United We Conquer and a plaque states: "In Memory of the Officers and men of the Commandos who died in the Second World War 1939 - 1945. This Country was their Training Ground."
A further plaque was added to the memorial on the occasion of the Freedom of Lochaber being conferred on the Commando Association on the 18th November, 1993. The plaque reads as follows:
"The Commandos 1940-45
In the summer of 1940 when Britain's fortunes in World War II were at their lowest ebb and an enemy invasion was threatened, Winston Churchill boldly ordered the raising of an elite force to raid the enemy-held coastline of Europe and regain the initiative.
The new units, which initially consisted of volunteers from the regiments and corps of the British Army, were called 'Commandos'.
Within weeks they were in action in Europe later in the Middle East and the Far East. During the next five years they fought in every theatre of war with such success that the word 'Commando' became feared by the enemy - yet respected by friendly forces.
In 1942 the Commando Basic Training Centre was established in the Scottish Highlands at Achnacarry. There potential Commando soldiers (who by then came from not only the British Army but also the Royal marines and the Allied Armies) underwent their tough and purposeful training. Only those who successfully completed all the course were accepted and privileged to wear the famous Green Beret. This distinctive head-dress was acknowledged as the hallmark of the highest standards of military training, self-discipline, physical endurance, initiative, bravery and courage whilst under their simple motto United We Conquer a comradeship beyond literary description was born, fostered and flourished.
For their valour in action the Commandos earned thirty-eight battle honours and many awards including eight Victoria Crosses, but many made the supreme sacrifice, no fewer than 1,700 Commando soldiers lost their lives and others were seriously wounded. It was a record that prompted Winston Churchill to pay the following tribute to the Commandos: "We may feel sure that nothing of which we have any knowledge or record has ever been done by mortal men which surpasses their feats of arms. Truly we may say of them when shall their glory fade."
An Afghan Commando from 3rd Company, 7th Special Operations Kandak practices moving and firing in the kneeling position between stationary objects in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 26 Jan. 2013. Commandos use these techniques to improve familiarity with weapons systems, to maintain communication, and to be more agile and effective in combat. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Benjamin Tuck/Released)