Commandos
Marines
Marines noun - Members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea.
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Unlike the US Marines, the Royal Marines are Commandos and are used for specialist deployment.
- King Mook: The Chaos Space Marines and Space Pirate Commandos are examples of this trope, they are capable of killing a man by throwing a knife at them...through a brick wall.
- He berates the President for never having served in uniform, yet he spends almost the entire novel hiding behind his commandos while the President routinely risks life and limb alongside the Marines to save the day.
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