Yesterday I watched a newly purchased DVD 'Rhodesia Remembered' made by the RLIRA (UK Branch), which can be ordered via the RLI website:
http://rhodesianlightinfantry.org/ Note available in the RSA and UK, so unsure if it will work on US VD, although the cover says 'All Regions DVD'.
The DVD has three parts: RLI History, The Trooper (Laying up RLI Colours and unveiling statue) and The Nkomo Assignment.
In the later Lt.Col. Ron Reid-Daly, who moved from the RLI to create the Selous Scouts and an ex-RN helicopter pilot Mick Borlace, who flew in the RRAF and became an undercover agent, talk generally about the scouts.
At one point Reid-Daly refers to the increasing flow of nationalist guerillas into Rhodesia ended the flow of intelligence, provided by the BSAP SB and ground cover, so the scouts were born (I shall have to check my books on this point). Then adds words similar to '68% of the kills involved the scouts'. A figure I don't recalls seeing before; Jon C, Rhodesian, JMA and others any comment?
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