Rank structure, badges of rank honours and awards roll of honour army home page site home page. This is a historical site dedicated to remembering the selous scouts. These scouts are beginning to kindle a bitterness in zimbabwe towards the white people. Oct 22, 2011 irving, texas latest edition of the sea scout manual is available now. On reaching the base which was a 25kilometre run away from the dropoff point they saw only a few straw huts and the blackened embers of a dying fire. I never finished posting chapters 15 17 online and this book is also missing the same chapters, as well as the same typos. White moved to sa after zimbabwes independence in 1980. This information was also published as south african antiterrorist operations manual by paladin press in 1986. This is the first electronic release of the sea scout manual. Our people are being killed in their hundreds by the selous scouts to make the people hate the freedom movement. Rhodesian coin consolidated thread, inc original rli.
He was born in london in 1851, where as a young man he showed interest in the dark continent, as africa was then popularly known. This is the same document used by the rhodesian elite forces and the selous scouts. The selous scouts, in fact, were credited with 68 percent of all insurgent kills and captures in their area of operations. The scouts aims to ensure that adults are able to meet a high standard in their role. It is a work in progress and the plan is to continually add new sections, photos and information as it becomes possible. Like most young rhodesians, i was a territorial posted after training at. This collection focuses on the selous scouts, the special air service, the rhodesian light infantry, the british south africa police the rhodesian air force and the chaplains corps. Selous scouts selection course made extensive use of roped obstacles and obstacles of height to test the candidates confidence levels at heights, as well as overall strength and dexterity need to complete the rigor of further training. When volunteers arrived at wafa wafa, the scouts training camp, on the shores of lake.
Once the most feared counterinsergency force on the african continent. White was linked to both the south african and the mozambican security services. The selous scouts was a special forces regiment of the rhodesian army that operated from 1973 until the reconstitution of the country as zimbabwe in 1980. Scenes of one of the fighting units over which mr partridge will have, at least, political control is the famous selous scouts, considered to be among the elite of rhodesias armed forces. The initial selous scouts were formed on 1st january 1964 as an armoured car regiment of the central african federation of southern rhodesia former rhodesia, now zimbabwe, northern rhodesia now zambia and nyasaland now malawi, and were named after frederick courtney selous 18511917 a famous hunter and friend of cecil rhodes. They have enough of a sense of timing and proportion to judge whether the project is feasibleand what it would take. Menu for a dining in mess dress function monday 5th november 1979. The boy scouts of americo welcomes your comments ond suggestions.
The selous scouts training and operational doctrine inculcated audacity. Selous scouts were expert mantrackers, masters of bushcraft and pseudoterrorist specialist of the rhodesianzimbabwe war of independence. This website is dedicated to the selous scouts regiment. Bush tracking and warfare in late twentiethcentury east and southern africa tim stapleton introduction tracking is the ability to pursue and close with an animal or human by following signs, commonly called spoor which is an afrikaans word, left behind in the environment. The advanced training base is about an hours drive from kariba, or a 30minute boat trip on the edge of the famous manmade lake. This is the story of the selous scouts regiment of rhodesia, which was formed in 1973 and abolished without benefit of formal disbandment, when robert mugabes zanupf took power after the british supervised elections in 1980. This site is dedicated to all who served, both operational and support. Our goal in creating this website is to provide an exceptional source of information on the scouts and to pay tribute to this fine regiment. When volunteers arrived at wafa wafa, the selous scouts training camp, on the shores of lake kariba they were given a taste of the hardships they would have to endure.
The freedom fighters are under strict instruction not to touch civilians no. You must develop the following traits and qualities to be successful and to lead your stick to contact. Boatswain calls ordinary 16g boatswain calls drill ordinary 16a, able 14c, quartermaster f celestial navigation quartermaster e leader materials. Bush war operator memoirs of the rhodesian light infantry selous. Auddis ward 173rd and selous scouts reflexive fire. I had to take the opportunity to pose some questions to auddis for our readers at kit up. It consists of a collection of grass roofed huts which, at first glance resemble a prisonerof war camp like those used by the japanese in world war 11. Dalys operatives would fake their escapes from jail and whisk them away to training facilities. Just the trip to the boot camp at wafa wafa, on the shores of lake kariba, was a major trial. How to create american selous scouts sofrep sofrep. However this unit is in no way associated with the elite selous scouts.
His value during the matabele rebellion in rhodesia in 1896 was thanks largely to his skill as a scout and his general fluency with native languages and behaviour. This pdf ebook is one of digital edition of bush war operator memoirs of the. Hazards, access, and assembly points are typical scouting objectives. The original selous scouts was an armour unit in the former central african federation army. Selection and training for the group would mirror the curriculum of the selous scouts by first shrinking the applicant pool through rigorous pt, ruck marching, starvation and mindgames. I would also like to point out they were truly all trained trackers and maintained this capability to superb levels of proficiency. As a military man selous had no formal training but a great deal of practical experience. Summary of the three cases with malice and forethought. This information would be vital for there further training as parachutist. Thus, special operations can be valuable not only for hos. James anthony white 50, former selous scout and once a ruthless killer for ian smiths rhodesia. This report examines the counterinsurgency campaign. Corneliuss expectation that we should be able to provide the holmesian detail of the game rangers and selous scouts. However the training it provides is only one piece of the jigsaw.
Bush tracking and warfare in late twentiethcentury east and. Selous scouts, south african defense force, rhodeisan army, bush wars. The boy scouts of america places the greatest importance on providing the most. Additional phases of instruction would be conducted in terrain found in the area of intended combat operations. Due to the nature of the responsibilities of a balootrained leadet we encourage you. Selous scouts couldnt count on ready resupply, for example, so early on the fledgling selous scout had to learn to take his food how and when it came. At various times, for example, white selous scouts posed as the prisoners of black. The national sea scout committee endeavors to bring you the best materials to support your sea scout programs and advancement. The tracker combat unit was the forerunner to the selous scouts.
This book has been rerelease as pamwe chete the legend of the selous scouts by reiddaly and is a completely revamped version of selous scouts top secret war original title. That unit was called the selous scouts, a specialforces regiment from the rhodesian army, which fought black insurgent armies in the bush war. Original tracker combat unit training manual used to help new recruits to the school understand the terms and training methods employed. There are a lot of good books out there on the selous scouts but the best ones are ridiculously expensive. These include footprints, disturbed vegetation, evidence of feeding. Selous was an imperialist to the core, and as such he believed passionately in the higher motivations of the british empire. Tracking in the rhodesian army captain allan savory, tcu tf any book about the scouts would be incomplete without some reference to its earliest origins and how the rhodesian army became the first army we knew of to train army trackers as opposed to employing native or indigenous trackers, as the british did in. Named after the british explorer frederick selous 18511917, its motto was pamwe chete a shona phrase meaning all together, together only or forward together. The scheme gives you the opportunity to learn at a time and place convenient to you.
The selous scouts was a special forces regiment of the rhodesian army that operated from. Rhodesias dead but white supremacists have given it new. The notion of recruiting and rearming enemy combatants, many of. Rhodesian selous scouts manual victim support fund. With common sense and a degree of experience, you can track terrorists. The freedom fighters are under strict instruction not to touch civilians no matter what their colour. The cilliers book is a recap of sorts, while the material from the selous scouts page is the antiterrorist operations atops manual. This area is where selous scouts were trained,i believe it is abandoned today.
The latest edition of the sea scout manual is now available. Selous scouts relied heavily on unconventional selection and training procedures. Part ii atops antiterrorist operations in rural areas, dated june 1975. Whether or not the adult is using the skills learned to the required standard in practice is measured through a process called validation. Dropped off by helicopter 15 miles from wafa wafa, 60man groups of recruits had to trek the distance to the training compound. The more modern selous scouts were formed from the tracker combat unit. Any book about the scouts would be incomplete without some reference to its. Ada238 998 lessons for contemporary counterinsurgencies. Unconventional, but they worked and turned out some of the finest counterinsurgency warriors of all time.
Training group which included the tracking and bush warfare school, the. One of the key principles of the adult training scheme is flexibility. This is a slightly edited and reformatted version of the rhodesian security forces coin manual. Rhodesias crack selous scouts, a tough and highly selected band of men, white. Rhodesian counter insurgency manuals counter insurgency. The selous scouts were formed in 1972 and named after a famous big game hunter kind of appropriate actually. Phone number include area code u u u u 84 97583302. Some of the operations border on the incredulous, recklessness borne of desperation of fighting against long odds with the entire world against them and. With practice, good scouts see or research the subtler physical qualities. Tracking in the rhodesian army captain allan savory, tcu tf. Becoming a scout volunteers for the selous scouts faced great challenges in simply becoming quali. The guide to safe scouting is an overview of scouting policies and procedures gleaned from a variety of sources. Jan 01, 2010 the manual in this book is taken from my pamwe chete selous scouts website.
Decisions can then be made as to how the adult might be. There is a diverse range of training methods right at your fingertips. Its purpose on formation was the clandestine elimination of zanla and zipra guerrillas, both within and outside rhodesia. Auddis served in the vietnam war before catching a one way flight to rhodesia and taking part in the bush war, and even served in the famous selous scouts towards the end of the war. Effects of rhodesian counterguerrilla warfare strategy on zanla operations and civilians in takawira sector during the liberation struggle 19721979 thesis pdf available december 2018 with. Tales of derringdo by rhodesias superb pseudo operations regiment the selous scouts, told by its commander ron reiddaly, during the bush war to preserve white rule in rhodesia in the 1970s. Soldiers training infantry training immersed rhodesian recruits in the enemycentric approach. He died in 1917, but hes remained legendary in southern africa. The selous scouts took their name from british african explorer frederick courteney sel ous. Resurrecting the selous scouts to destroy isis sofrep. Scout baloo training pdf see the plans and methods section of the c ub scout leader training manual for information.
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