SF-TX
05-24-2008, 10:33
Interesting article about a self-described US Special Forces soldier that fought in the Rhodesian Bush Wars. If anyone can attest to the veracity of his story, please comment.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65173
The last adventurer
U.S. Special Forces vet joined fight against Mugabe
Posted: May 24, 2008
12:30 am Eastern
WorldNetDaily
Editor's Note: Journalist Anthony C. LoBaido has published scores of stories about South Africa and Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia. LoBaido has spent several years living, working and traveling in southern Africa over the past two decades. In his latest segment, LoBaido brings to light the story of J. Columbus Smith, an American Special Forces veteran who fought in the Rhodesian Bush War.
...How did Rhodesia, once a source of agricultural bounty for Africa, turn into a living nightmare of despair? Perhaps the answer can be found in the combat experience of J. Columbus Smith – an elite U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who joined the Rhodesian Army in a quest to save the beautiful nation from Mugabe. Smith has lived a life few men will ever know. Moreover, he is part of a remnant that personally fought for what was left of Western civilization in the mid 1970s – before the fall of the Berlin Wall, globalization, political correctness and massive Third World immigration.
...Battling Mugabe and his Marxist-Maoist cadres was the job of elite Rhodesian Special Forces soldiers such as Willem Ratte and Bert Sachse. Yet Rhodesia, while abandoned by the West to face Mugabe's terrorists – who in turn were backed by North Korea, China, the old USSR and its communist bloc satellites – was augmented by a team of well-trained, highly motivated American volunteers.
Among these "Amerikaners" was J. Columbus Smith. The son of an Air Force pilot and a first class military brat, Smith earned a journalism degree from Sam Houston State in Texas. He served in the U.S. Army and qualified for the Special Forces. Because of his journalism background, he was appointed public information officer for all the Green Berets in Vietnam.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65173
The last adventurer
U.S. Special Forces vet joined fight against Mugabe
Posted: May 24, 2008
12:30 am Eastern
WorldNetDaily
Editor's Note: Journalist Anthony C. LoBaido has published scores of stories about South Africa and Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia. LoBaido has spent several years living, working and traveling in southern Africa over the past two decades. In his latest segment, LoBaido brings to light the story of J. Columbus Smith, an American Special Forces veteran who fought in the Rhodesian Bush War.
...How did Rhodesia, once a source of agricultural bounty for Africa, turn into a living nightmare of despair? Perhaps the answer can be found in the combat experience of J. Columbus Smith – an elite U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who joined the Rhodesian Army in a quest to save the beautiful nation from Mugabe. Smith has lived a life few men will ever know. Moreover, he is part of a remnant that personally fought for what was left of Western civilization in the mid 1970s – before the fall of the Berlin Wall, globalization, political correctness and massive Third World immigration.
...Battling Mugabe and his Marxist-Maoist cadres was the job of elite Rhodesian Special Forces soldiers such as Willem Ratte and Bert Sachse. Yet Rhodesia, while abandoned by the West to face Mugabe's terrorists – who in turn were backed by North Korea, China, the old USSR and its communist bloc satellites – was augmented by a team of well-trained, highly motivated American volunteers.
Among these "Amerikaners" was J. Columbus Smith. The son of an Air Force pilot and a first class military brat, Smith earned a journalism degree from Sam Houston State in Texas. He served in the U.S. Army and qualified for the Special Forces. Because of his journalism background, he was appointed public information officer for all the Green Berets in Vietnam.