Unit with a counterpart issuing orders

By Lemmiwinks86, in Rules

Hi.
I have a doubt regarding a commander/operative with a counterpart giving an order to another unit. That other unit has to be at range 1-3 of the commander/operative mini or range 1-3 of the unit?

The rule for issuing orders say this:
"The unit must be at range 1–3 of the player’s nominated commander."

"Nominated commander" reffers to the mini or the unit? Because per the rules, the counterpart is part of the unit.

"...counterpart and its corresponding unit combine to form one unit..."

Thanks

I believe it is any model in the unit.

"When measuring range between units for any game effect other than an attack, range is measured from the closest mini in one unit to the closest mini in the other unit."