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- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry abstract "The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, commonly the Rhodesian Light Infantry (1RLI or RLI), was a regiment formed in 1961 at Brady Barracks, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia as a light infantry unit within the army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A year after its creation it relocated to Cranborne Barracks, Salisbury, where its headquarters remained for the rest of its existence. The Regiment became part of the Southern Rhodesian Army when the Federation dissolved at the start of 1964 and later that year reformed into a commando battalion. After Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965, the RLI became one of the country's main counter-insurgency units during the Rhodesian Bush War, which pitted the government security forces against the rival guerrilla campaigns of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA).An exclusively white regiment, the RLI was made up wholly of professional soldiers until 1973, when conscripted national servicemen were first introduced. Foreign volunteers from across the world, many veterans of foreign conflicts, also joined and became a key part of the Regiment. The RLI was nicknamed "The Saints" or "The Incredibles", and regarded, through astounding success with both internal Fireforce operations in Rhodesia and external preemptive strikes against guerrillas based in Mozambique and Zambia, as one of the world's foremost exponents of counter-insurgency warfare. So prominent were the airborne aspects of typical RLI operations that the Battalion became an airborne parachute battalion in 1977. The RLI served under the short-lived government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, the interim British government that followed and briefly in Zimbabwe before it was disbanded in October 1980.The RLI's tactics and training contributed to repeated successes in its counter-insurgency operations. "The advantage this gave them," says United States Army Lieutenant-Colonel Dave Grossman, "added up to nothing less than total tactical superiority." Alexandre Binda writes that the RLI "earned for itself an enviable reputation as one of the world's foremost anti-terrorist forces," while Major Charles D. Melson, chief historian of the United States Marine Corps, calls it "The Killing Machine".".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry activeYearsEndYear "1980".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry activeYearsStartYear "1961".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry anniversary "1961-02-01".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry anniversary "1965-11-11".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry battle Rhodesian_Bush_War.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry colourName "Green and white".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry commander Lieutenant_colonel.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry country Rhodesia.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry disbanded "1980-10-31".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry garrison Harare.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry mascot "Cheetah".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry militaryBranch Rhodesian_Security_Forces.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry militaryUnitSize "Battalion".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry motto "Various; none officialref|The RLI had no official motto. Commonly used, but unofficial, mottoes were coined during its existence; perhaps the most well-known, "They have the faces of boys but they fight like lions", was created by Platoon Warrant Officer Herod of the Rhodesian African Rifles on 18 March 1968, and put forward as a possible motto by Captain Ronald Reid-Daly on 4 November 1969. "The Incredible Rhodesian Light Infantry", originally a toast to the regiment by Prime Minister Ian Smith on its seventh birthday, 1 February 1968, is an alternative, having given the RLI one of its nicknames, "The Incredibles". Finally, the words of Lieutenant-General Peter Walls on the 14th Regimental Day, 1 February 1975, are sometimes used; "Thank God for the Rhodesian Light Infantry". The Latin motto since adopted by The Rhodesian Light Infantry Regimental Association, Pugnamus Amo Leo, translates into English as "To Fight Like Lions".|group="n"|name="motto"".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry notableCommander Lieutenant_colonel.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry role "Commando".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry thumbnail Rhodesian_Army_flag_late_1970s.png?width=300.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry type Infantry.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry wikiPageExternalLink www.theRLI.com.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry wikiPageID "2849567".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry wikiPageRevisionID "605868322".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry align "right".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry allegiance "--02-01".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry allegiance "ref||group="n"|name="brits"".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry alt "A black FN FAL battle rifle lain on a grey background, pointing to the viewer's left".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry alt "A black FN FAL battle rifle with a wooden stock".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry alt "A green Heckler & Koch G3A3 battle rifle lain on a grey background, pointing to the viewer's right".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry anniversaries "--02-01".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry anniversaries "--11-11".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry battles Rhodesian_Bush_War.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry branch "23".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry caption "A British-made L1A1 SLR".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry caption "A Heckler & Koch G3A3 rifle".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry caption "An FN FAL battle rifle with bayonet fixed".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry caption "Emblem of the Rhodesian Light Infantry. The absence of the Queen's crown indicates that this is post-1970 pattern.".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry colors "Green and white".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry colorsLabel "Colours".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry colwidth "35".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry commandStructure "2".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry commander "--02-01".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry commander "--12-04".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry commander1Label "First CO".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry commander2Label "Final CO".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry country "--10-07".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry dates "--02-01".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry decorations Freedom_of_the_City.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry decorations "1975-07-25".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry direction "vertical".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry disbanded "1980-10-31".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry garrison "Cranborne Barracks, Salisbury".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry garrisonLabel "Headquarters".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry group "n".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry hasPhotoCollection Rhodesian_Light_Infantry.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry header "Battle rifles of the Rhodesian Light Infantry".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry image "Early FN FAL.jpg".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry image "G3a3 edit.png".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry image "SLRL1A1.jpg".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry march "--06-19".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry mascot Cheetah.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry motto "--03-18".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry nickname "The Incredibles".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry nickname "The Saints".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry notableCommanders "--12-01".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry role Commando.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry sign "Lt-Col Dave Grossman".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry size Battalion.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry source "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, 1996".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry text "1970.0".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry type Infantry.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry unitName "1".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry width "250".
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry wordnet_type synset-unit-noun-3.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry subject Category:Military_units_and_formations_disestablished_in_1980.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry subject Category:Military_units_and_formations_established_in_1961.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry subject Category:Military_units_and_formations_of_Rhodesia_in_the_Bush_War.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry subject Category:Regiments_of_Rhodesia.
- Rhodesian_Light_Infantry subject Category:Rhodesian_Light_Infantry.
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