Editing Commando (section)

=== Soviet Union ===
Voyennaya Razvyedka (Razvedchiki Scouts) are "Military intelligence" personnel/units within larger formations in ground troops, airborne troops and marines. Intelligence battalion in the division, reconnaissance company in the brigade, a reconnaissance platoon in the regiment.<ref name="ReferenceB">Spetsnaz:Russia's Special Forces by Mark Galeotti</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2018}}

'''Soviet Naval Frogmen'''
The legendary Soviet Naval Scout [[Viktor Leonov]] commanded an elite unit of Naval Commandos. The 4th Special Volunteer Detachment was a unit of 70 veterans.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> Initially they were confined to performing small scale reconnaissance missions, platoon sized insertions by sea and on occasion on land into Finland and later Norway.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> Later they were renamed the 181st Special Reconnaissance Detachment.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> They began conducting sabotage missions and raids to snatch prisoners for interrogation.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> They would also destroy German ammunition and supply depots, communication centers, and harass enemy troop concentrations along the Finnish and Russian coasts.<ref>Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941-45 by Henry Sakaida</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2018}} After the European conflict ended, Leonov and his men were sent to the Pacific theatre to conduct operations against the Japanese.