Selous Scouts: The Controversial Legacy of Rhodesia's Elite Warriors 

Apologies for the mispronunciation, Thanks for the correction.

The portuguese were on the top with the rhodesians.

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Did you know Frik Muller?

You must give more info for me to believe that you were SAS. Sorry man, but today almost everybody claims to have been in the special forces.

As a SAS I made an oath to secrecy. And of many ordeals after all these years I still got PTSD. My CO was Major John Dealy Read.

The Scouts and the SAS were Rhodesia's biggest units...... everyone claims to have been a member!

Please excuse the mispronounciation.

Was about to make a similar remark..👍

Thank you! Apologies for the horrible pronounciation.

Thank you! Did my best to locate available footage of the scouts, but footage of them is indeed quite rare and challenging to source. The RLI march was intended to symbolically represent the end of an era rather than to be a literal depiction of the specific event. Thanks again for the feedback, I'll keep striving to find the best possible content.

The clip you used was not RLI but infact the Air Force.

In your dreams... Lol...

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In Hell, why not?

Thank you for the recommendation! Yes, there are some fascinating stories from the Ultramar, I'll try to make a video about the Flechas as well.

There were instances where native African Rhodesian infantry troops would defect to the side of the rebels. So the Selous Scouts took advantage of that. For them, disguising as defectors would help in gaining the enemy's trust. As the rebels didn’t have strong intelligence or counterintelligence units, they were less likely to suspect someone of their own that they believed had turned against the Rhodesians, allowing the scouts to operate more freely within the base. The scouts also maintained a low profile and avoided unnecessary interactions. Only took action when they were confident it won't raise suspicions. When the time came to kill, destroy, or sabotage, They chose targets that will cause the most disruption while minimizing the risk of immediate detection.

@@TimelessChroniclesYT I understand what you mean. What puzzles me is the “defector “. I witnessed the same ops with Portuguese GEP’s (black paratroopers) what they called operation manioc (mandioca) but they posed as Frelimo guerrillas not defectors. That would raise great suspicion within the guerrillas. Many new groups would arrive from Zambia or Tanzania and since communications within the Frelimo was pratically non existing, they were almost always welcomed. Once the GEP’s were confident enough, they would act with Portuguese special forces (comandos or paras) as backup. Most operation manioc were very successful. Flechas also used same procedure in Angola. Defectors of Portuguese Army in Frelimo had to go through a very painful procedure before being accepted, many were not and were executed , the process lasting several days, even weeks. One famous manioc operator was sergeant Robbie (Ribeiro his real name) a Cape Verdean that is mentioned in Breytenbach’s book “Forged in battle “ about Bravo group in Angola. Breytenbach even recommended he receive the Honoris cross for bravery but it was refused. He was killed by a SA army truck that jumped the military convoy in SWA .

Thanks for that, was driving me nuts!

@@stikkkkk No worries, Mate. Yeah, me too!

Indeed, 1,800 members is a substantial number, comparable to the size of a brigade in later stages. Most of the later additions were regular RLI troops who were not permanently assigned to the unit. The expansion to this scale highlights the significant increase in their operational capacity, even though it came with challenges related to personnel quality and operational effectiveness.

It was actually 1650 personal, of which a vast majority of the black personnel were ex guerrillas

Only read your comment after, completely wrong! The unit was actually formed by SAS & RAR personal in the experimental stage. Once it was decided to form a unit, a selection process was introduced where persons from all units could try for selection. You could break down to unit into two sections, internal operations consisted of mainly black personal from predominantly the RAR & and turned! Captured guerrillas with white regular soldiers as control. The Assualt grp consisted mainly of white territorial personal.

Don,t you mean every Rhodesian was in it? Everyone but you.

Should get your facts right!, before you make such a stupid comment!. Two different countries and armies.

JUST LOOK AT THE SHITHOLE NOW.

Look at the shit

Lies. Zanupf propaganda.

" WE GET TO RIDE MOTORCYCLES INTO BATTLE? " " YES " " AND WEAR SHORT SHORTS?" " YES" " WHERE DO I SIGN ?"