The thousand yard stare. Men of 2 Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry, the Rhodesia’s “Green Berets” #RLI

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).

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

Angolan Mil Mi-8 during the 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

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