Wessels, an author who served in the
Rhodesian Light Infantry, and Scheepers, who served in the Special Air Service (SAS) of Rhodesia, relates Scheepers' experiences as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the
Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged in fireforce combat operations and was wounded 13 times during the Rhodesian War.
For instance, the Rhodesian Air Force worked hand in hand with the
Rhodesian Light Infantry and SAS to successfully pull off 1977's Operation DINGO, which destroyed a ZANLA base in Mozambique, as described in Ian Pringle's Dingo Firestorm.
Cocks, Fireforce: One Man's War in the
Rhodesian Light Infantry (Roodeport: Covos Books, 1997), J.
A Medical Officer (later, Major) in the
Rhodesian Light Infantry Battalion (seconded from the Namibian-based surgical teams of the South African National Defence Force Medical Services), he applied his rapidly growing expertise in trauma care and vascular surgery to the welfare of combatants and civilians alike.
Two years later he was commissioned a lieutenant in the elite
Rhodesian Light Infantry, and a few years after that, personally recruited by counter-terrorist legend Lt.
A widely sold and popular account is Fireforce: One Man's War in the
Rhodesian Light Infantry by Chris Cocks (1997).
Nine years later, after studying graphic art at Natal University in South Africa, Bone found himself performing his National Service in the
Rhodesian Light Infantry.
A born-again Christian whose physical appearance suggested a violent past, K was a veteran of the
Rhodesian Light Infantry. He fought in the 1970s to maintain white supremacy, on the losing side of the war, which ended with majority rule for the new nation of Zimbabwe.
An all white regular infantry battalion was raised in 1960, the
Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) and a number of other support units came into being.
Hazel married young, gave her loving husband, a soldier in the
Rhodesian Light Infantry, a beautiful daughter and was eight months pregnant with his son...
Binda, The Saints: The
Rhodesian Light Infantry (Johannesburg: 30[degrees] South Publishers, (2007), p.
This contrast reappears when comparing
Rhodesian Light Infantry Lance-Corporal Chris Cock's Fireforce to Royal Canadian Regiment soldier Terry "Stoney" Burke's two volumes of Cold War memoirs.