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Rhodesian War Stories: The Cuban
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- čas přidán 4. 04. 2019
- A Rhodesian war veteran investigates a homegrown Cuban.
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"I switched my slayer onto sing." I want that on a shirt with an FAL and green and white flag
So awesome those Rhodesian soldiers!
Daisy?
That RAR man handeled the situation really well, that sure was some quick tinking
A NATO round doesn't stop for mud and sticks.
They sure don't. They don't stop for hardwood eucalyptus trees either and do interesting things to 44 gallon drums full of water as well.
Had some interactions with a Selous Scout who was working as a dog handler in Afghanistan. I asked where he was from, as I had never heard an accent like his, and he smiled and said, "Rhodesia." I asked where that was, and he educated my buddies and I about this war we had never heard of over smokes. Friendly guy with some incredible stories.
Given they were disbanded 40 years ago, he must have been an old dog handler...
@@Ghhyuttgg He'd seen some winters.
@@forrestsmith2459 Hard men. I've known a couple of Rhodesians. One dude went to the basic course with me in '89, and we became good friends. His family left after the war and he grew up in Colorado. Told how his school bus was ambushed when he was like 6 or 7, same accent, his dad was a PATU, cops that tracked the terrorists. My bud led a platoon from the 10th Mountain in Somalia, earned a Bronze Star with V, said Mogadishu was like stepping into a fire ant pile and a 'wonderful welcome back to Africa'. His dad came to graduation and saluted us like the Brits do, palm facing out. Good men, and very proud to be Rhodesian-Americans. The other guy was my medic, he had grown up in South Africa did his time in the SADF during the Border War, very pragmatic, no drama and Huge dude, but a gentle giant.
Have never personally met a bad Rhodesian, one or two I didn't like, but I don't like many people so that doesn't say anything bad about them.
I fought then in Cuito Cuanavale, they run like rats...
Your anecdotes are amazing. I live in Scotland, Arbroath but had my childhood in Africa. Remember travelling to Vic falls by train,the scrub and brush all cut back from the tracks at ambush points so no body could strike at you from nearby.Remember train had a gun carriage front and rear and loads of protection from on board Soldiers.Two weeks later, after Christmas, there was a Morter strike on the area near Vic Falls Hotel where we had been staying, we were very lucky. We had planned to be there earlier for our vacation ,please keep your stories alive,thank you.
Listening to your stories with my eyes shut, I can still smell the soil on our farm in Rhodesia. Thank you sir
Still the greatest storyteller I’ve ever met. Amazing!
VinWiki stories are my favorite.
WAY different topic but look them up.
I have no dog in the Rhodesian fight. I want to compliment this man on his ability to colour a story in 3-D. Quite a remarkable talent. The soldiers story is important to catalogue. *hat-tip.
The tale tells the Cuban is still wandering around in the bush...
Seriously though, an awesome story! It's fascinating to listen to you, especially since very few people know the story of Rhodesia nowadays.
Englands greatest betrayal was that of Rhodesia, God Bless Ian Smith
You're right, Sir!
Blessed be Ian Smith and his legacy!
Thank you Edward
Englands bigest problem is its england,
@@davidravenscroft9235 my pleasure, sir
Thank you, God Bless My Ulster Homeland, For God & Ulster
How come there are no swimming pools in Cuba? Because all the Cubans who can swim are in Miami.
Aa a Cuban, can confirm.
I can make a raft out of stones!
Or, apparently, in Rhodesia.
Yuk yuk yuk
I heard that in Angola they were able to judge the number of cubans because each battalion had a baseball court.
Cant remember where I read it though.
I am really enjoying your stories sir. From an American, former army infantry veteran. God Bless.
Thank you so much for posting these stories. Thank you for for keeping the memory of the great nation of Rhodesia alive and helping to teach us younger generations
Love your stories, sir. When I joined my Territorial battalion back in the 80s, two of the NCOs had served in Rhodesia, one in the RLI, one in the paras. Even an old schoolmate had, i found out when reunited with him via Facebook, served in South Africa.
I too was in the Rhodesian Army. We were in a notorious TTL (Tribal Trust Land) called Nyamaropa that bordered Mozambique and was a highly dangerous place. There were plenty of deserted kraals scattered about because of the fighting, and one day we decided to see just how strong one of the dagga huts was; it took me 7 shots from my FN rifle to blow a bullet sized hole through its mud, dung and wattle wall. Considerably stronger than brick.
Yep. This colander has holes in it !!
I lived in Nyasaland, the Rhodesian Federation, Malawi, and the Republic of Rhodesia from 1949 to 1974.Thanks for your amazing stories, man, which took me home to the land I love the most.Australian now, but Rhodesia will NEVER be forgotten.God bless you, Sir !
You need to teach at Fort Bragg.
I'm not sure it will help Fort Bragg's reputation if they invite a racist mass murderer as lecturer?
@@katastrophe7022 but Mugabe is dead he wasnt referring to him.
@@katastrophe7022 as opposed to the murders of missionaries and others??Including the two Viscounts.??
Excellent! Thank you very much for a great story. I can imagine the situation at that kraal very well.
Hi. Thanks for uploading this.
You sir have the best CZcams channel for war stories that I have so far found. Thank you very much. Cheers!
I stumbled across this channel, what a happy accident.
Thank you sir for your wonderful stories!
As ex RLI in '73 we were never allowed to use an FN on auto. Waste of ammo and rifle can jump dangerously as well as melt barrel if you pump through enough rounds. Maybe a barstool warrior story or who knows maybe it was ok later on?
trilithon You're right, the weapon does pull up viciously on auto but she's okay for short bursts with long intervals before any damage is done. (The heavy-barreled version issued to the RLI at one time was naturally better suited.) We had no official restriction on the use of automatic fire such as you mentioned, but from a practical point of view, like yourselves, used only semi. Many thanks for the comment, and keep well.
I fired a FAL on full auto fun and all but seemed to me like everything else stopped, situstional awareness was long gone around round 3 or 4 and i was just trying to hang on to the thing lol
Eric Gill 😂😂😂 try shooting a G3 on full auto. That’s disorienting. The FAL is pretty smooth in comparison. The Rodies did come up with the Halbek Device, which helped keep the FAL under control.
I am an RLI veteran during the blood years most of the time you fired your FN on auto ot can be controlled
I don't know if cubans were ever in Rhodesia or not but they were in Angola ,at the time of the Portuguese .Che Guevara himself was at least over the border ,in Congo - Kinshasa .We even got one live cuban prisioner,capitan Peralta ,.but that was in Guine' - Bissau .
You also had Anti Communist Cubans ( Bay of Pigs Veterans) fighting the Cuban Communist. We had are own Civil War . CZcams has a video about it.
www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/exiled-cuban-pilots-remember-the-congo-war/2057267/
@@iggyortful thank you for the link, I am Cuban Anti Communist
Another awesome soldiering story! Thanks for sharing👍👍
7.62x51 NATO versus mud hut, only one winner there.
Frantan does a more showy number tho'.
Mushy story.Really enjoyed that . Thanks
Very interesting.... The Bus driver C Coy 5RR Mahuwe Flygate, Sipolilo
Denis Oakley! Mahuwe Flygate ... down that long, twisting road to the flatlands .....catch a right and the drag takes you along the base of the escarpment and over the Kadzi and Utete rivers. Can never forget it! How are you man? Trust all's well? What a pleasure hearing from another ex-5RR member. (Is there a possibility you can drop me an email...would love to keep in touch.) All the best my friend.
Oops, there goes my anonymity! Yes, the very same.... sure I can do that... or go FoxtrotBravo.....
@@fiveromeoromeo5225 Excuse me, are you Rhodesian-born or British?
What an amazing story and it just goes to show that the best tales are real
hahahaha.. bladdy cubans.. great story.. close my eyes and listen and i'm seven years old sitting around the fire again.. magic.. : )
Thats awsome.
There is a story of Cubans coming over VC radios in Cambodia and warning the Special Forces guys of MACVSOG of the VC’s plans. The Cubans had such disgust for the VC that they would tell the Americans their plans.
Nice story, "bro". Unfortunately it's utter nonsense. Your facts don't add up and you look like a delusional loser who would not make the draft by the way
@@katastrophe7022 Obviously he is talking about the Cubans using the code name Agent Orange. Good guys! snicker.
Yes, it Happened a lot of times.
Just found this one sir , that was outstanding to the last drop.
Priceless !!!
God bless those brave villagers and that poor girl. I hope all they got out of this is a bit of a scare and a good story, too.
1. Thanks for uploading this. Fascinating stuff. 2. Why the euphemisms? The Rhodesian state doesn't even exist anymore. 3. How did you manage to approach the kraal without setting off dogs?
;) he spoke to them in Shona
this Event is actually ... 'the Hand of God' ... at Work. You..Sir.. are definitely a Good Man.. 🙏
Gold!
I hope you are collecting your Cuban pension...
Loving these stories. :-)
In the States we call it the fun switch #2A respect ✊
No dogs in the village? Strange.
Unheard of....gets more and more suspect with each 'tale'. Would have been shot to shit by his own troopies if anything happened. And since when did an RAR MAG gunner patrol with territorials? If he couldn't speak the language what was he trying to hear?
Bushley, unfortunately l have some bad news for you. As a Territorial l operated with RAR twice in the 8 years that l fought in the Chimurenga. Ist time was after we lost 2 guys in a vehicle ambush when l was in 1st Batt. RAR were sent down to join us at Hoya for a follow up. Had some old tracker which somehow l seem to think was from the BSAP. I kept well clear of a RAR corporal who was interrogating a local by smacking him over the head with a 28 R rifle grenade ( the BIG anti tank one not the smaller 32 Zulu). When they were based at the Pungwe bridge & we were at Ruda, also did a bit of an HDF with them & combined in sweep lines
That was hilarious. Thanks
Delightful.
Are you on twitter or any other social media sir? If you don’t want to give any info here you can reach out to me at this name anywhere. I am doing research and studied on rhodesia, as I believe it will have much to reach us in the struggle that is rising daily in the west. Thank you for your videos sir
Volume alert !!
How can I find out the sequence these have been recorded? Which is 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on?
Have a look at the playlists.
Did you ever tell the police you were the "Cuban" ??
Steve Jory. And spoil a good story? - not on your life! Hahahahaha! Keep well my friend.
@@fiveromeoromeo5225 funny you dont look like Che'. Nah.....
And then breath release squeeze
What's the political situation in Rodesia these days?
Zimbabwe. And there is no political situation. Communist dictatorship.
Mugabe bit the dust. No one misses him.
Selous Scouts !!!!!!
Kkkkkkk what a story
👍👍
Did Fidel send Armour?
Doubt it, but the soviets did for sure. Maybe Cubans sent some armour to other African "liberations". Can't remember anymore.
Why did you trust black advice?
So, to summarize the story: you wanted to massacre a peasant family that gathered in a rural mud hut and would not have hesitated to do so in front of a young girl. This story really exemplifies the psychopathic and criminal nature of the Rhodesian colonialist. Thanks for sharing your atrocities with the general public.
Kata Strophe. Your summary is a little over-simplified, but I understand your viewpoint. The thing with much of life is that it consists of perceived truth, rather than the real truth. Your sentiments are well-meaning, but you should bear in mind that perceptions such as you hold did more to destroy our land and brought more atrocities, than can ever be laid at the feet of a Rhodesian. That aside, I do thank you sincerly for your comment and wish you well at this difficult time.
@@fiveromeoromeo5225 Are you trying to imply that you are the exclusive holder of the actual truth, while everything that negates your cheap denialist narrative only qualifies as "perceived truth"?
Let's just stick with the objective facts: as you indicated yourself, you and your band of racist killers (let's face it: you fought for the preservation of racist minority rule by Rhodesian settlers who disenfranchised 95% of the population) were ready to shoot up that mud hut full of villagers in front of that little girl.
Please spare me the paternalistic lingo. You are not a role-model, no elderly person of respect to anyone with a sane mind, only racist extremists and terrorists like that mentally deranged serial killer Dylann Roof would look up to someone like you.
You are a serial killer (how many poor rural villagers and members of the Zimbabwean Resistance have you murdered in cold blood by the way?) - not a hero. Zimbabwe functioned perfectly fine without you mass murderers, until Mugabe committed the cardinal sin of insisting on the implementation of land reforms, which were already agreed upon in the Lancaster House Agreements more than a decade earlier. That's when he was economically sabotaged by his contract partner (UK + her western allies) to pressure him to abandon the agreed upon land reforms. Not to mention the many acts of sabotage by ex-Rhodesians who received amnesty and employment in democratic Zimbabwe and who expressed their gratefulness by clandestinely cooperating with Apartheid South Africa to commit acts of sabotage and terror. You very well know that this is the truth, so stop pretending!
Please do us a favour and eradicate yourself - that's the only way you can make good for the atrocities you have committed.
@@fiveromeoromeo5225 A Rhodesian gentleman's reply, i would expect no less from you ,sir, you do us proud now just as you & those beside you did us proud in the war. But perhaps in this case its a matter of "casting pearls before swine's"?
@@katastrophe7022 😂😂😂😂!!!!
@@katastrophe7022 "eradicate yourself"??, please, go ahead, show us how its done.