Rhodesian Selous Scout operators, circa. 1977. If you want to fight in the bush, you have to smell like the bush.

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

Rhodesian Selous Scouts during a cross border raid, late 1970s

32 Battalion troops before Ops Alpha Centauri, 1986

Angolan Mil Mi-8 during the war

Early pic of a #Mirage IIICZ during an ACM camp

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

Entrance to 5 Special Forces Regiment

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

The Father of South African Special Forces, Colonel Jan Dirk Breytenbach addressing troops in SWA