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

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

Members of 11 Troop, 3 Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry, circa. 1973.

RLI troops getting ready for jump

Fireforce paras dropping in

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Troop, Rhodesian Light Infantry

Trooper, Rhodesian Light Infantry, 1979

Men of the Rhodesian Light Infantry Aboard a Rhodesian Air Force Alouette III Helicopter ready for #Fireforce

Fireforce is a variant of the military tactic of vertical envelopment of a target by helicopter-borne and parachute infantry developed by the Rhodesian Security Forces during the Rhodesian Bush War. Regiments involved included the…Read More