#Rhodesian Army

[karagin22]

#rhodesian bush war #rhodesian army #rhodeisa

[ohello0]

The day I found out the Israeli military pays for your or your partners plastic surgery is when 2 and 2 really started coming together for me

Every single white woman in the uniform I see is pumped to high fucking heaven good god of grace

#i just… #be serious #the filler and the acrylics and the tan and the box blonde dyes #it’s all a bit much #giving a trad wife meets Rhodesian army aesthetic #which is very fitting considering the state of those two communities #nasty work #free palestine #also #not a surgery hate post just hilarious that this is the level of incentive and seeing just how many take it

[thejohnfleming]

Our trip from a Canadian strip club via US neo-Nazis, South Africa to Rhodesia

David Hughes in the 1980s… This all started, three blogs ago, as a piece about David Hughes, who worked as a doorman/cashier/DJ at the Le Strip club in Toronto from 1982 to 1994.  It then began to divert via undercover work for the CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), neo-Nazis, a massive counterfeiting scheme, planned terrorism in the 1980s, a far right Christian Identity…

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#Army #Bush War #Canada #Canadian Pacific Rail #Christian Identity #CSIS #Darryl Winkler #David Hughes #Le Strip #military #police #politics #racism #Rhodesia #Rhodesian Armored Car Regiment #SAS #SIS #South Africa #South African Defence Force

[vestigial0rgans]

I think about this article all the time

We take a chap right down when he first comes here, right to the bottom.

#hazing #torture #CIA #imperialism #abu ghraib #counterinsurgency #west point #Pershing #Rhodesian army #white supremacy

[pattern-53-enfield]

It's kinda crazy to see how Rhodesian camo seemed to be a commodity back in the 80s exactly how it has been recently. Seeing how frequently Rhodesia is evoked in SOF ads is a bit of a trip. From one person who watched the current Rhodesia meme emerge to another; what do you make of what it was and what it has become? I'm pretty sure you know more about the history than I do.

Oh it's exactly the same as it is now. Back then, SOF was directly financially benefitting from the Bush War, as Robert Brown was not-so-secretly selling arms and equipment to the Rhodesian government, such as several hundred Mini-14s "contributed" by Bill Ruger, and even full on helicopters. There was also a pipeline of mercs, but their contributions to the conflict were laughably negligible. As Robert Evans put it: SOF existed so that American and British dudes could fantasize about how they "totally could have gone Special Forces, if only they hadn't knocked up that chick in '65". Therefore the quality of men who actually believed SOF's propaganda was worse than useless.

Today Rhodesia has captured the same mystique for dorks who haven't read anything past memes. To them it's a tiny country with a tiny professional army standing against the Bolshevik hordes, and it therefore feeds into the narrative of white victimhood and fear that somebody is out to get them and if they ease off on any kind of social reform, they're going to be executed by AOC with an East German AK or something. Apartheid-era South Africa has the same hold on them, or at least the military does. Doesn't hurt that most of the glowing accounts of Rhodesia come from guys who immediately bailed and joined the SADF to do more awful shit in the Bantustans and Angola.

[ink-stained-clouds]

a very late monthly reads post

read in september ↴

favorites ★

Books

I’m Not Done With You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

You Can’t Stay Here Forever by Katherine Lin

No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

Articles

UNC police got the wrong Asian while searching for suspect, intensifying fears of racial profiling

Racist Jacksonville shooter wore Rhodesian army patch, a symbol of white supremacy, law enforcement sources say

The Evisceration of a Public University ★

Amid Uncertainty About Francesca Gino’s Research, the Many Co-Authors Project Could Provide Clarity

How Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu, Is Aligning Himself With Christian Nationalists ★

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Are Scissoring ★

The Instagram Account That Shattered a California High School

Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks

The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? ★

Scholarly papers

Novick and Pickett. 2022. “Black Lives Matter, Protest Policing, and Voter Support for Police Reform in Portland Oregon.”

Blue, Kathleen. 2020. “Where Do We Go From Here? Positioning Gender in Studies of the Far Right.”

Du Bois, W.E.B. 1903. “The Souls of Black Folk.” ★

Du Bois, W.E.B. 1920: “Darkwater.” ★

#studyblr #studyspo #am studying #study motiviation #college studyblr #study inspiration #study inspo #gradblr #grad studies #grad school #grad studyblr #monthly reads

[justforbooks]

Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, won both the military medal and the military cross as an honorary “founding member” of the wartime SAS before going on to a long career in the British secret intelligence service MI6. He was the last original member of the SAS, whose exploits were dramatised in the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022), based on the 2016 book of the same name by Ben Macintyre.

When the second world war broke out, Sadler was working on a tobacco farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He joined the Rhodesian army and was promoted rapidly to sergeant, but established an early willingness to question the wisdom of his officers’ orders.

When his commanding officer threatened to strip him of his rank if he did not apologise to an officer with whom he had disagreed, he told him in no uncertain terms that he would reduce himself to the ranks.

As a result, he was highly receptive to an invitation in a Cairo bar to join the recently formed Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), which had been set up by the British in 1940 to mount behind-the-lines attacks on German and Italian forces on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier.

During the long journey from the Egyptian capital to the LRDG’s base at Kufra, in south-east Libya, Sadler became fascinated by the group’s use of stars and the position of the sun to navigate their way across more than 700 miles of largely featureless desert.

“It was a voyage of discovery because the maps, except in the very coastal regions, had nothing much on them except longitude and latitude lines and the odd dotted line marking a camel track or something,” he said. “It was entirely like being at sea.” As a result, when they arrived at Kufra, he was offered the role of unit navigator. “The idea of navigating by the stars was so fascinating I couldn’t resist.”

Sadler’s involvement with the newly formed SAS began some months later, in the immediate aftermath of its disastrous first mission. The regiment had tried to parachute into the desert in the dark during a fierce storm, and 34 of the 55 men taking part were killed or captured.

David Stirling, who had founded the SAS, needed to mount another operation quickly or see the unit disbanded, and asked the LRDG to ferry them on the next mission, in December 1941. Sadler was attached as navigator to the mission commander Blair “Paddy” Mayne, an Irish rugby international with a similar lack of respect for poor decision-making, and they got on well.

The raid, on an airfield at Wadi Tamet, on the Libyan coast west of Sirte, destroyed 24 aircraft, blew up a number of fuel dumps and killed or wounded around 30 Italian and Germans, ensuring the SAS survived.

During another raid on a German airfield at Sidi Haneish, 235 miles west of Cairo, in July 1942, Sadler, now officially transferred to the SAS, navigated 18 jeeps across the desert without headlights or maps. Storming across the airfield firing tracer bullets from their machine-guns, the men destroyed an estimated 37 aircraft.

Sadler was told to wait at the edge of the airfield and make sure everyone got out. “So I only got away from the airfield at dawn, after the raid, and found myself driving through a German column that had set out into the desert to look for us,” he recalled. “I drove through the column from the back and nobody noticed. I don’t think they expected anyone to be behind. They’d stopped to have a cup of tea on the roadside, and I drove on and out.” As a non-commissioned officer, Sadler was awarded the military medal for his bravery.

In January 1943, now a lieutenant, he was part of a small team led by Stirling looking for a route for the British forces to outflank the Germans and link up with allied forces in Tunisia.

They were captured by the Germans but Sadler and two colleagues escaped, crossing 100 miles of desert with little water and no compass or maps to meet up with US troops. An American journalist, Abbott Liebling, who saw Sadler when he arrived, said: “The eyes of this fellow were round and sky blue and his hair and whiskers were very fair. His beard began well under his chin, giving him the air of an emaciated and slightly dotty Paul Verlaine.”

Sadler reprised his nonchalant approach to driving past German vehicles during an operation in France in August 1944. He was in the first of two jeeps crossing a busy road east of Orleans when they encountered a heavily armed German patrol.

Rather than abandon his mission, Sadler drove slowly up to the patrol, waved to them and crossed the road, less than 6ft from the Germans. It was only when they had passed that the Germans realised they were British, and opened fire.

Sadler whipped his own jeep around and fired on the Germans, giving the second jeep time to escape before withdrawing himself, having knocked out two German machine-gun crews. As an officer, he could now be awarded the military cross.

Born in Kensington, central London, Mike was the son of Wilma and Adam Sadler. When his father became director of a plastics factory in Stroud, Gloucstershire, the family moved to the nearby village of Sheepscombe.

Sadler was educated at Bedales, an early co-educational private boarding school in Petersfield, Hampshire, that was founded on Montessori principles, with children freed from rigid educational methods and encouraged towards independent thought. He left in 1937 for Rhodesia, to work on a farm.

By the end of the war, he was adjutant to Mayne, now the SAS commander, and with the SAS being temporarily disbanded, they both volunteered to go to Antarctica with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (later the British Antarctic Survey).

Sadler was awarded the Polar medal for his work setting up a new base on Stonington Island, which was connected to the mainland by a glacier. When the glacier melted, the area it vacated was renamed Sadler’s Passage in his honour.

On his return to the UK, he briefly worked for the US embassy in London, before being recruited into MI6 to help plan cold-war operations. During the Falklands conflict he was involved in a deception operation over the sale of Exocet missiles to the Argentinians.

He stayed with the intelligence service until the mid-80s, spending his retirement indulging his love of sailing.

Sadler married twice, first, in 1947, to Anne Hetherington, a former driver with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Fany) whom he had met when she drove him to an airfield. They divorced after two years. In 1958 he married Patricia Benson, who worked for the Foreign Office, and they had a daughter, Sally. Patricia died in 2001. Sally survives him.

🔔 Willis Michael Sadler, SAS navigator and intelligence officer, born 22 February 1920; died 4 January 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

#just for books #mike sadler #in memoriam

[postoctobrist]

Not a gender ask or a kink ask but a secret, third thing:

I have a Pattern 83 South African chest rig that I got in an army surplus store years ago. I got it because it was neat, and highly functional. It comes with me for LARP purposes while one shoots garbage in the goods, as is the American custom.

Unfortunately, nowadays it's the go-to accessory for a tiger-stripe FAL and a bunch of Rhodesian patches some guy on /k/ is making and I've begun to worry that it says something about me to the specific kind of person who knows what this is and I don't like it.

Has this nice kit become a fash thing and do I need to replace it y/n?

Yes it has and no you don’t, respectively. They’ll get bored and move on to something else. Throw a little antifa pin on it or something

[vague-humanoid]

[karagin22]

#rhodesian bush war #rhodesian army #Selous scouts

[the-gentleman-sockmonkey]

White Boy Summer will get here fast...

[lboogie1906]

Vice President Joice Runaida Mujuru, known as Teurai Ropa Nhongo (born April 15, 1955) is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice President of Zimbabwe (2004-14). She had served as a government minister. She was vice president of ZANU–PF, one of the dominant political parties in the nation.

She was born as a Shona in the northeastern district of Mount Darwin in Zimbabwe. She attended a Salvation Army mission school, Howard High, in Chiweshe in Mashonaland Central Province. She was the only woman attending school in Lusaka.

She decided to join Rhodesian guerillas fighting the British. She was the political trainer for two successful military bases. She was a camp commander at the Chimoio military and refugee camp in Mozambique. She was targeted by Rhodesian security forces who attempted to capture her but failed. When Rhodesian soldiers attacked a guerilla camp in Chimoio, she evaded capture by hiding in a communal latrine. When her camp was attacked, she nine months pregnant, helped fight off the attack. She gave birth to her child just a few days later.

She became the youngest minister in the cabinet, taking over the portfolio of sports, youth, and recreation. She sandwiched secondary education between her busy schedule. She was named Vice President of Zimbabwe.

As Minister of Telecommunications, she fought against monopoly ownership of the nation’s telecommunications network. She awarded Zimbabwe’s second mobile license to Telecel, a previously unknown Zairois consortium, thereby excluding Masiyiwa. The Zairois consortium included her husband, Solomon, and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe‘s nephew, Leo, which prompted many critics to accuse her of corruption.

She married Solomon Mujuru until he died (2011). She was indicted for an alleged conspiracy against Mugabe. She lost her post as vice president and her position in the party leadership. She was expelled from the party, after which she founded the new party Zimbabwe People First and took part in the 2018 elections. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 9.3 (after 1900)

1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule. 1914 – French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers. 1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy. 1916 – World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil. 1925 – USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne. 1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m). 1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph. 1939 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allied nations. The Viceroy of India also declares war, but without consulting the provincial legislatures. 1939 – World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic. 1941 – The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs. 1942 – World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus). 1943 – World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian mainland. On the same day, Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano sign the Armistice of Cassibile, although it is not announced for another five days. 1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later. 1945 – A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2. 1950 – "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix. 1954 – The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. 1967 – Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight. 1971 – Qatar becomes an independent state. 1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars. 1978 – During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site. 1981 – The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations. 1987 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya. 1989 – Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São José do Xingu in Brazil, killing 12. 1997 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64. 2001 – In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. 2016 – The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement. 2017 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

#Events

[paincorpsrarefinds]

RARE Vintage '70s Rhodesian Army Sweater with Reproduction Selous Scouts Rank M

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[artistbookings]

Steve - Key Speaker

Steve is your go-to guy for fascinating key speakers. Give him a topic and you can expect to be entertained and enlightened. His background includes the following:

survivor of the church-child interface

former Hells Angel

former member of Mensa

former mercenary soldier in the Rhodesian Army

multi-lingual (can request beer in nine languages)

had lunch with Nelson Mandela

the voice of hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours of TV documentary and magazine programs, sold in 45 countries

award-winning journalist, editor and broadcaster on dozens of titles all over the world

winner of one international-level car race, the loser of dozens more

host to 35 fractured bones and four gunshot wounds but absolutely no tattoos…

Steve has lived in ten countries on four continents, but now Melbourne, Australia is home. There Steve’s a volunteer fire-fighter and recipient of Australia’s National Emergency Medal. He’s had more jobs than he can remember, in places like mines, nuclear power stations, banks, the military, newspapers and magazines, on radio and TV, where he was only allowed to appear as a voice. A multi award-winning journalist, he holds an MBA degree from the prestigious Exeter University Business School in the UK, though not all the time.

Steve has competed in about 20 types of motorsport on two and four wheels and has had one international race win, many crashes and three broken necks; in the absence of any obvious talent, he has retired from racing, at least for now. For years his competition licence featured a picture of Desmo the family dog and annoyingly, no-one noticed, perhaps proving that pets do look like their humans after all. Besides his CFA commitment, he volunteers as an L2P driving instructor to help Learners build up hours behind the wheel before sitting their tests; if nothing else, his students know understeer from oversteer and can heel-and-toe.

And he rides motorcycles. A lot. Since he lived in Aden when he was nine years old. In 2017, he and life-partner Liz rode their Adventure bikes 40,000km - the distance around the world - through 16 countries, on four continents. He did the second half with a broken ankle after being hit by a taxi near Machu Picchu.

Defying Apartheid laws and death threats, he and Liz started the world’s largest motorcycle charity event, The Toy Run. By its 35th anniversary, over three million people had benefited, but like Spike Milligan, he expects a knighthood is unlikely. He scuba-dives when it’s warm, skis when it’s not and in between, flies an aircraft about the size of a shopping trolley.

Despite being a daily-published journalist for years, this collection of short stories (‘Such is Life’) is his first book, but there are several more fermenting away. Keep an eye (or ear) out for the audio-book of ‘Such is Life’ narrated by the author and the pictorial and text versions of  One Dream, Two Ride, the story of their epic motorbike ride, due out later in 2018.

#key speaker #guest speaker

[postoctobrist]

What do you think about the UKs new Ranger Regiment? I keep seeing people clowning on it on the internet for some reason.

The British Army tries to invent an equivalent of the 75th Ranger Regiment every few years in the same way that the Home Office tries to invent a 'British FBI'. Neither of these are inherently bad ideas - in fact, I think just the opposite - but they're always overcome and dragged down by the unbearable shitness of being British. Nothing interesting or new is allowed to happen in this country

Oh also they nicked the cap badge of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts and panicked when people noticed