SYND 18 5 78 RHODESIAN TROOPS TRACKING GUERRILLAS IN COUNTRYSIDE
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- (18 May 1978) Rhodesian troops tracking guerrillas and disarming land mines in Rhodesia's increasingly violent civil guerrilla war.
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The journalist is Michael Nicholson. He was a politics student at Leicester University and lived on North Avenue, then Springfield Rd. He had a succession of jeeps and weird vehicles and married a lovely local woman, Diana.
I knoew him and I was her parents' butcher boy.
The next time I ran into him was in Rhodesia when I was a sergeant in the Rhodesia Staff Corps.
I recently found out that he'd died too young.
Super bloke, RIP Michael.
ThePsychocybe 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣so scared ,now go home and cry for the death Rhodesia
Don't worry, burnman, someone will be coming to help you soon. Probably someone white.
@@bernard8793 poor trolling. Go away.
@@bernard8793 ZImbabwe GDP left the chat
@@roblox_games1982 aww yes Profit the only important in this world. Hope you’re millionaire and not part of the working class
Those FNs look so beautiful
They're probably R1s.
+Ystadcop ...yep
@@J_1791 Possible. South Africa also manufactured the FN under licence as the R1 and it's variants. So it could be either.
@@peterr7530 if there is a hole drilled in one side of the magazine well then its an FN, if not its most likely an R1
Rly? I thought most "FN's" in Rhodesia were L1A1 SLR with Halbek device
Damn those rodeshian fal's look fantastic
What is all this "FAL" nonsense nowadays? NOBODY called them that out there. They were R1s from South Africa.
@@markaxworthy2508 the R1 is just a modified FN. Even Rhodesian singer John Edmond sang about the FN
@@bigconvoy9850 Yes. As a Brit I called them FNs. Furthermore, when the RLI was formed at the beginning of the 1960s it got British FNs. However, I don't recall anybody calling them "FALs". Similarly, I don't recall anybody talking about "Rhodesian brushstroke" camouflage. However, both these have come into common usage today.
What did Zimbabwe have before majority rule? Healthcare, fair elections, functioning economy...
"Zimbabwe"
I mean there was the whole racist minority rule, basically Apartheid shit, though that probably wouldn't have lasted much longer anyways. Instead the commies had to get involved like usual and turn it back into yet another third world shit hole before Rhodesia even got the chance to right it's wrongs.
They have unlimited bank notes. All multi millionaires. What a life. ✨🤩✨
Only for whites
Blacks didn’t have the vote
The elections were not fair.
Blacks couldn’t live where they wanted, were banned from certain jobs,
@@TheJalipa Apartied is a bit harsh. They had 28 black parliamentary members who had a good amount of influence in the countries progression. However it was unfair to the black population and there’s no doubt about that, but after the 70s, blacks were aloud free health care and education....it was changing.
The reason why blacks didn’t have the right to “vote” was due to them being too primitive with modern politics, which was very different to their tribal systems that had been used for generations upon generations. Ian Smith was exactly trying to stop Rhodesia being led by a inexperienced lunatic like Mugabe. There was great potential. Shame the commies had to ruin everything.
In my opinion these guys were without doubt the best soldiers in the world.
James Mosley you're wrong. They were slaughtering "villagers with rifles" with their superior firepower, which included apcs, helis, jet aircraft, AA guns, etc, etc.
Same like the Americans vs. the FNL of Vietnam.
laman012 if civilians were suporting guerilla, then they had no choice. Not to mention that Mugabe after his victory in war ordered to slaughter his opponents from other tribes.
The Chinese did not care how many 'villagers with rifles' were killed. Nor did Mugabe come to that.... The Rhodesians, of all tribes who chose to fight communism, were special soldiers.
laman012 You’re an idiot. Still haven’t addressed if they’re skilled or not, plus most of the villages harboured guerrillas. Rhoadies had a 60:1 k/d against them a points in the war. Highly skilled soldiers indeed.
They certainly had a very righteous cause.
you will never ride through the Rhodesian country side with your mates looking for zanlas.
why live
Probably because your comfortable middle-class life that enables you to play Overwatch and comment on TH-cam in peace is infinitely preferable to driving over landmines and "6 weeks on, 6 weeks off" call-out with the reserves in a war that everyone knew they were losing.
plenty of terrs in America, the problem is that it includes people in the government and media.
@@rethguals sir shit pants
@@rethguals i dont know, at least thats living, you can say youve done something. and if you survive you get to come home and play overwatch and comment on youtuve (if youre foreign aid)
@@mysterystainontherug6290 As a veteran with PTSD, I can tell you right now that operational service takes a lot out of you, and isn't some cool life experience that makes you a better or more resilient person that you can look fondly back on.
The Rhodies had it tougher than me, too - I went home from what they'd consider to be low-tempo deployments to my video games and studies, with money in my pocket and healthcare support from the DVA.
Most of them (especially the mobilised territorials and national servicemen) fought in incredibly shitty and dangerous conditions, were consciously aware the war wasn't going well in the last few years and that they'd inevitably be governed by former terrs, and don't even have the home they fought for anymore. Around 27% of the white population fled before the war was even over, and almost all RSF veterans live in places like the UK, Australia, and Canada now.
Professional soldiers...👍👍
So entertaining to watch old archive news reports and documentaries about this conflict. How would the AP cover it today? I think we all know the answer to that.
They certainly wouldn't show black Rhodesian soldiers.
In my opinion these guys were, without doubt. the best soldiers in the world.
So I'm not sure how All this works , I was a kid during the bush war and all of. You guys kept me safe even during entobani all you troopers black and white are the best fighting force the world has ever seen
I love how they disarm it, and all gather around like "dude check it out! this almost killed us all haha"
Unfortunately it was nearly over for the good God fearing Rhodesian whites & blacks when this took place. God bless them
And where was your God when they got kicked out of their own country? "God Fearing" Pah, what a fucking joke. You're definitely a "God Fearing" American completely detached from reality. No one should ever fear a God - a figment of human imagination.
God fearing ?
So your god loves white more over black? Interesting
Rhodesians never die
Heros all!
Slot Floppies!
Good old times.
No army will match Rhodesian Forces on earth even American soldiers , will salute these sons of soil.
I have seen some hard coping, but this one is on a new level. Not the Green Berets, not the SAS, not even the incredibly well trained and funded standard US Army? No, some Rhodies in short shorts are the absolute best, seeing as they were beat by poorly coordinated militias that had some AKs thrown at them by the Soviets.
@@thejay8963 This is not meant as an insult but...Clearly you haven't studied the matter. Everyone worth their salt in the knowledge of the matter knows the Rhodesians were close to the top in military prowess.
@@WINGTV9
Which is why they lost to a poorly coordinated force of untrained militiamen with some AKs the Soviets thrown at them.
@@thejay8963 They fought far more than a poorly coordinated group of terrs with a few Soviet weapons. They had little outside support, and the terrs had funding from Russia, China, even Western sources. Most of the world's governments were against them, including the American and British. Considering what they were up against they did incredibly well.
Those little shorts always get me! Didnt they get bites?
Modern soldiers lost the ability to track since they just ride around in APC:s and helicopters.
Okay liberal civilian who has no combat experience fuck off
I was trained in tracking so you are wrong and by a this man mantrack1.com/
@Guy Calabrese You have no idea what we do. Either join the service, do some actual research, or keep your mouth shut.
@@SorrowAvenue Did my service for five years 35 years ago... Back in the day when you actually saw what you were shooting at... You said what?
Anyway now we have drones with IR heat cameras that can detect a rabbit under bush from 1.000 yards in the sky. And it can engage it on its own. War in the savannah now would be very one sided. However this tech fails in deep jungle or cities.
Rhodesians never die!
That you Alan Geddes, mate from Chaplin
Can't get over those fuckin' shorts man.
Where is the other parts?
🎶who wears short shorts?🎶
Godspeed Rhodesians!
The best thing for Africa is visionary leadership and respect of the rule of law.
william III 10000000 times better than Hitler mosolini starling
Africa will continue to be a shithole until White people are in charge again.
True but its scarcer than hens teeth.
Anybody knew Mike Fargue
Wonder why they wore shorts not trousers
Cause they were chads
It's hot weather
A wagon load of bank notes to buy a loaf of bread...
Why you didn't fight forever!!!
Lead soldier also has a shotgun?
*sniper shotgun
A little buckshot is great for fast moving targets at short range.......
i wish i was a Rhodes scholar
Good fucking soldiers
Rhodesia was a beautiful country. If I were a black Rhodesian I hope that I would have joined the Rhodesian military. Mugabe was awful and he ruined what was there. He was against anyone who threatened his power. He was much like Ceaucescu in Romania in that and many other regards.
Long hair, short shorts, tennis shoes.
Andrew Dow The Bjorn Borg look ! 🤔
Not tennis shoes, they were known in the quartermasters store as "Boots SAS, anti tracking"
well done General Peter Walls, you should have whipped all these terrorists, Zimbabwe should been served from this mess Rhodesian Forces were defending the country.
If only the leftist media in places like the US and UK weren't working so hard for their Soviet masters to push the embargo in order to destabalize the region. Just imagine if the US provided to Rhodesia 1% of what it sent to Vietnam.
Rhodesia fué la nación numero uno de Africa gracias a los blancos
! Viva el pueblo blanco de Rhodesia !
🖤💯💪🏻
They're so cute in their short-shorts...
1 fight maybe the last 1974 was pretoria line of hundreds mag 58s overun with clobering hand prints in red hot mags out of ammo porsche tanks israeli crews chain andpull brush for infantry overun to get to line of woman uzis fals galil r4s fire volley & run from million man angolans with captives for food behind. Nixons 40 with m1 garands with 20 rd mags on bluff angolans walk back to angola thru south africa now which ones bleeding hearts werent rascist?
This reads like crack
Never delete this
Fortunately his head shot was not fatal
Wtf,I just lost two years of my life,trying to decipher this.
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I wish someone would tell me why they roamed freely in the eastern parts of the country, and failed to penetrate the west - Matabeleland.
Likely ethnic tensions between ZANLA and ZAPU. It'd flare into a genocide 7 years after this broadcast.
Remember there were 2 distinct factions; ZIPRA and ZANLA, who very basically were tribal and operated in their own areas. They met violently in the Midlands and Victoria provinces. If the truth be told it was a 3 way civil war.
DingindlelaDD Dube Hopefully by now youare beeter versed in Rhodesian and Zimbabwean history. At the end stages the Rhodesian forces where overwhelmed . We were fighting Frelimo, Tanzanians and they were backed by Russian and East Germans on the military tactics and strategies of the Rhodesians. During the good Bishops tenure as Prime Minister.
Baby poop camo FAL
mu
If only Ian Smith treated black Africans with respect there wasn't going to be any rebellion.Rhodesia would b a very developed country by now.
Amazing! A perfidious, impatient international community that had convinced itself hardline Marxist Robert Mugabe would somehow be an inspirational leader - to the extent that it forced the annulment of an earlier election that brought moderate Bishop Muzorewa to power.....and you're blaming _Ian Smith_ for Zimbabwe's (inevitable) decline?!
Good grief, you must be taking the piss!
Yeah if only we had more Robert Mugabes! If only we had more communists to arm untrained children and tell them that they are now an army. If only history would forget that Rhodesia and South Africa was not the ethnic homeland of the Bantu and that they were enslaving and terrorizing the Indigenous people before the Europeans ever showed up. What went wrong! Please tell me!!! Shaking my head...
@@jefferyhammond1421 before the pinks came there were no borders nothing like rhodesia and southafrica all africans moved freely and were natives of the whole of africa
And who said he didn't treat Blacks with respect. Only the terrorists and liberals
Ian Smith did not need bodyguards armed with machine guns and his own farm workers loved him. Blackjew Breedlove your knowledge is one sided and no matter what accomodation was made with ZAPU or ZANU they would never have been satisfied unless they were totally in control. Its the way of Africa from Cape almost to Cairo.
why do the white have to immigrate to Zimbabwe and Namibia may be South African is different issue (1600 )
@@DanielPaulGrechPereira Had to???