![]() When he enrolled at OSU in 1968, Coey joined the Marine Corps officer training program. Coey was an Eagle Scout, and when it came time for college, he decided to stay home and study forestry at Ohio State University. The Coey family were openly Lutheran, and was a true believer in Americanism. These views earned Coey few friends in America or even in Rhodesia, but his bravery inspired his comrades to continue the good fight against steep odds.īorn in 1950 in Columbus, Ohio, Coey enjoyed the type of all-American life that is increasingly rare. Coey believed that preserving white Africa in the face of Afro-Marxism and international capitalism was right because Rhodesia stood for Western Christendom. ![]() His reasons for fighting were racial, religious, and political. Many American volunteers in Rhodesia fought for a healthy paycheck, but some had lofty goals. The group’s chronicler, Robin Moore, saw them as an extension of the original Green Berets who went out to Vietnam to stem the tide of Asian communism. One mercenary group during the Bush War, the “ Crippled Eagles,” attracted attention because its members came from the United States. His British South Africa Company hired the best trackers and settlers to turn the Bantu lands north of the Limpopo into Rhodesia. Rhodesia itself was established by mercenaries in the employ of imperialist Cecil Rhodes. Most joined through advertisements in Soldier of Fortune magazine, and many came from South Africa, where Anglo and Boer whites had a long tradition of serving as soldiers-for-hire. The vast majority of the men who served in such famous units as the Rhodesian SAS, the Selous Scouts, and the Rhodesian Light Infantry were sons of Rhodesia, but the country also welcomed foreign fighters during the Bush War of the 1960s and 1970s. In my professional judgement based on more than twenty years’ experience from lieutenant to general, of counter-insurgency and guerrilla-type operations, there is no doubt that Rhodesia now has the most professional and battle-worthy army in the world for this particular type of warfare. Their army cannot be defeated in the field either by terrorists or even a much more sophisticated enemy. British General Sir Walter Walker, upon reviewing Operation Dingo, said of Rhodesians: 1977’s Operation Dingo is a testament to the strength, endurance, and ingenuity of the small, but professional Rhodesian Security Forces. This small white-minority nation stood up to the world, and despite an economic embargo that lasted for over a decade, it managed to win victory after victory on the battlefield against insurgents. In 1980, Rhodesia, once the “bread basket of Africa,” began its steep decline into the worst economic disaster in modern times, while today, in 2018, South Africa appears to be following in its path.īut the story of Rhodesia is not all gloom. Indeed, Rhodesia shows us what happens when whites become a powerless minority. Needless to say, since Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe, it is not a happy story. Uniquely ahead of its time, the regiment, a brotherhood of men that traversed cultural and racial barriers with their Shona motto of “Pamwe Chete” (together only), was to produce the type of soldier that earned for the unit one Grand Cross of Valour, nine Silver Crosses and 22 Bronze Crosses of Rhodesia.The story of Rhodesia has a strong resonance with “red pilled” white Americans. Feared and hated by the liberation movements ZIPRA and ZANLA, the Scouts wreaked untold havoc and destruction on their Soviet- and Chinese-backed enemies, accounting for 68% of guerrilla casualties within Rhodesia alone during the bitter bush war of the 1970s. Formed in 1973 by the legendary Lieutenant-Colonel Ron Reid-Daly at the behest of Rhodesian military supremo General Peter Walls, the Selous Scouts were to write their name into the annals of military history as one of the finest counterinsurgency units of all time, through their innovative pseudo-guerrilla tactics, brilliant reconnaissance operations into Zambia and Botswana and daring flying-column raids into Mozambique. ![]() "Its members consisted of some of the finest guerrilla-fighting men in the western world, unconventional in many ways, disregardful of parade-ground discipline, unorthodox in their dress, yet a force so tightly knit in the face of danger that those who knew anything about them could only marvel" – The Citizen. "Undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, effective counter-insurgency units in the history of warfare" - Lt-Col Robert Brown, Soldier of Fortune Magazine 15th August 2019 Revised & Expanded Edition
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