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  2. Fort Gellibrand - Wikipedia

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    The memorial is dedicated to members of No.2 Commando Company who have been killed during training. [ 1 ] The Observation Platform (31) was built between the late 1930s and the early 1940s and is concrete, accessed by a concrete stair.

  3. 2nd Commando Regiment (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    [42] [43] [Note 2] In 2005, a fourth commando company (D Company) was raised. [26] Later, the battalion was tasked with supporting the security arrangements for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. [44] In 2014, elements of the regiment were deployed to Brisbane to protect the G20 Leaders Summit held in the city on 15 and 16 November. [45]

  4. Special Operations Command (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    1 Commando Company (HMAS Penguin, Sydney) 2 Commando Company (Williamstown, VIC) 301 Signals Squadron (Randwick Barracks, Sydney with elements in the commando companies) 2nd Commando Regiment (Holsworthy, NSW) Incorporates the role of Tactical Assault Group (East). A Company; B Company; C Company; D Company; 126 Signals Squadron; Operations ...

  5. List of heritage buildings and sites in Williamstown, Victoria

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    The batteries at the fort were upgraded in the 1870s and 1880s, and the fort remained an integral part of the defensive system for Port Philip up until the late 1880s and 1890s. Today, the Fort is home to a reserve commando regiment of the Australian Army, the 2 Commando Company of the 1st Commando Regiment.

  6. 1st Commando Regiment (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    The 1st Commando Regiment (1 Cdo Regt) is an Australian Army Reserve special forces unit, part of Special Operations Command with an integrated structure of regular (full-time) soldiers and reserve (part-time) soldiers, which together with the full-time Australian Army 2nd Commando Regiment, provides the commando capability to Special Operations Command. 1st and 2nd Commando companies were ...

  7. List of commando units - Wikipedia

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    The fighting units are divided into four commando companies of about 100 men each and the special commando company with veteran members, taking supporting tasks. Each of the four commando companies has five specialised platoons: 1st platoon: land insertions; 2nd platoon: airborne operations; 3rd platoon: amphibious operations

  8. No. 2 Commando - Wikipedia

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    No. 2 Commando was a battalion-sized British Commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War. The first No.2 Commando was formed on 22 June 1940 for a parachuting role at Cambrai Barracks, Perham Down, near Tidworth, Hants. The unit at the time consisted of four troops: 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D'.

  9. 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (United ...

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    The 10th had 2 soldiers killed in the fighting, which was the longest sustained firefight by regular U.S. Army forces since the Vietnam War. [6] The division began a gradual reduction of forces in Somalia in February 1993, until the last soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry returned to the United States in March 1994.