Comandos (Amadora)

Portugal / Lisboa e Vale do Tejo / Amadora
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The Comandos are a special forces unit in the Portuguese Army. Their motto is "Audaces Fortuna Juvat" (The Luck Protects the Bold) and their war cry is "MAMA SUMAE" (it can be translated as "here we are, ready for the sacrifice" - taken from a Bantu tribe of southern Africa). They were created as counter-guerrilla special forces, thus responding to the need of the army to have units specially adapted to the type of war that, in 1961, started in Angola and later in Portuguese Guinea (current Guinea-Bissau) and Mozambique - the Portuguese Colonial War.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comandos
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Coordinates:   38°45'8"N   9°14'36"W
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