Fighting Men of Rhodesia ep103 | Cpt. Jungle Jordan MFC | C Sqn. SAS 

I have met the captain jungle jordan I was the chef for SAS C Squadron and was at base camp when Capt Pearce when the wall fell on him in Zambia. Only found out of his passing when C squdron returned to Kabrit. At the entrance (Boom) I notice the flag at half mast and asked the guard on duty why? He passed on to me the sad news that Captain Pearce Died.

Glad you enjoyed it

He got it at school and it followed him into the army

Where is he based now John?

Yup that mother was HEAVY plus the spare battery. When l carried it in '76 in Gonarezhou, as we were also using A30's which were absolutely useless in the flat expanse of the lowveld. So the OC decided that there would be TR 28's mixed amongst the operational sticks. You couldn't carry it in your army issue rucksack, so you carried it in its own pack & just had to find room for your rats, bivvy & sleeping bag. Had the crazy situation where 1 of our sticks had picked up fresh spoor & the Air Force were choppering in 2 Scouts Trackers. They only had an A30, so me about 12kms away had to home the chopper in to them by listening on my A30 & then relaying the instructions to the pilot via the TR 28. Fun times relaying to the pilot "roll out" by which time with the delay it was "come left, roll out. Come right, roll out, come left, roll out" 😂. It was a miracle no-one in that chopper was air sick 😂😂

The TR28 was the first production SSB transistorised radio used in action in the world - and it was all ours! The Portuguese were not far behind us. The rest of the world took nearly 10 years to catch up. The Brits only caught up in the late 1970s- oddly enough with the Commonwealth Monitoring Force.

Yes it is, & you are right about him being a hard man. Saw him at Salisbury Drill Hall when l was de-mobbing after a 1st Batt camp just after his jump accident. He was walking with a stick (no crutches for him) & if l remember correctly he'd broken his pelvis & a femur quite badly. It was shocking to see this "hard" man limping around after having played rugby with him at Llwellyn during my NS, when he was determined to make the Rhodesian Rugby team as a hooker, if l remember correctly. He was always doing extra fitness routines after rugby practice. A real fit bugger

Hi James, I will ask Hannes and get back to you

Hannes says definately Ian Cochrane. He had para wings but not 100% sure where he got them.

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No, like the RLI they were exclusively white. Because of operations that Selous Scouts did (psuedo groups-masquerading as terrorists) black soldiers & "turned" terrorists tended to be far more useful in the Scouts

No.

There were good men, blacks, that worked the civilian jobs and militarily in the Army. Many good men that wanted to preserve peaceful loving.

Apparently from school