Selous Scouts Beret & Stable Belt Stock Photo

The Selous Scouts was a counterinsurgency unit raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in January 1974, it was named after the famous British big game hunter Frederick Courteney Selous who in the 1890s hunted extensively in the land that would become British Colonial Rhodesia. The Selous Scouts had a grueling Special Forces selection course and over time during the Rhodesian Bush War earned an enviable reputation as one of the world's finest counter insurgency units. Upon Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the unit was disbanded.