Rhodesian Light Infantry Recruit Course jogs by, hauling along 26 pound FN MAG machine guns in the extreme Rhodesian heat near Cranborne Barracks, circa. 1976

The Rhodesian Light Infantry ( RLI) use relatively unique in it’s “Commando” structure and training regime. Members of the unit included local volunteers, National Service consc…Read More

Rhodesian Light Infantry Support Group

4 Recce operators in a small zodiac (Langebaan shot??)

Teddy the lion swimming with the Recce operators at Fort Doppies

2 Reconnaissance Commando 2nd Selection Course (REC 7510).

SAAF Mirage F1AZ

7 June 1980 Border War, Operation Sceptic. Capt IC Du Plessis landed his badly damaged Mirage F1AZ at Ruacana. The aircraft was damaged by shrapnel from an SAM Missile fired at the aircraft during the bombing of a target. He barely made it to Ruacana with the assistance of Budgie Burgers who was flying a Telstar Imp and guided him in to Ruacana.…Read More

Rhodesian Security Forces preparing to conduct a patrol along the Mozambican border, 1979.

32 Battalion troops before Ops Alpha Centauri, 1986

Angolan Mil Mi-8 during the war

#Mirage F1AZ’s at AFB #Ondangwa in the Operational Area during the bush war

Colonel Breytenbach not only founded the South African Special Forces (the Reconnaissance Commandos, or “Recces”) and 44 Parachute Brigade, but 32 Battalion as well