Fire Force gunner Beaver Shaw performing a pre-flight check in an Alouette K-Car gunship.

Superintendent Bob Mansel PATU BSAP

RLI troopies from 1 Commando

Support Commando 1 RLI elements assemble at Ruda, Honde valley, on the Mozambican border for Operation Miracle

Operation Dingo Zulu 1: Alouette’s refuelling at the admin base inside Mozambique.

Inspector Alan Stock (crouching), Patrol Officer Alan Murray, Constable David and Section Officer Dave Lawson on PATU duties at Karanda in the northeast, 1973

Freefall paratroops deploy from a C-47 Dakota

Operation Cheese proved conclusively that the RLI could operate behind enemy lines as well as the SAS.

A PATU stick, Centenary East, 1975.

RLI, National Parks and BSAP personnel display captured Russian weaponry, Zambezi valley, 1966.