The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 5 letter word GREEN BERET
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More clues leading to the result GREEN BERET
- Commando's salute, welcoming new battalion leader previously
- Commando short of experience joining engineers in punt
- Commando not prepared to risk protecting monarch
- Young Bertie, lacking initiative at the outset, surprisingly becomes a soldier
- New sleeping-place mostly occupied by English commando
- Commando, incompletely prepared, has to take a risk protecting monarch
- Commando’s info leads to wager
- Live under shade, even priest belongs to a special unit
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