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SELOUS SCOUTS
GALLERY
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The Selous Scouts as a regiment did not have a traditional
Color, but a Standard. The dangling fly-wisks on the Standard are
traditional protectors against evil spirits.
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During bushcraft / survival training Selous Scouts are
made to drink the innards of gutted game animals. Due to the many valuable
nutrients that may be drunken to supplement ones diet in extreme
situations.
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Two Selous Scouts conducting night SCUBA training
perform the back-roll method of entry into the water. They are training
with open-circuit rigs, which emit the tell-tail bubbles.
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A rubber raiding craft loaded with Selous Scouts
performing night training operations. Which will encompass boat handling
and SCUBA diving.
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A Selous Scout being inserted by helicopter with a
tracking dog, to close the gap on a follow-up operation.
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Selous Scouts rapidly exiting an aging DC-3, via static-line
parachute.
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All Selous Scouts were trained static-line
parachutist, with many also being free-fall trained.
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Learning to gut and quarter game was an essential
skill taught to all Selous Scouts during there time at the Tracking and
Bushcraft course.
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Here two Selous Scouts remove the innards of what
appears to be a antelope. Scouts were also trained to eat rotten carcasses
by boiling. This technique would only work once, if the scout reheated
the meat a second time it would poison through a chemical change in the
meat.
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Here a Selous Scout instructor is teaching the finer
points of botany. By describing signs to look for to retrieve water from
vines and not poisons or irritants.
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Selous Scout instructor demonstrating how to retrieve
water from a vine.
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GALLERY TWO NEXT |
