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Officers say design for Ranger Regiment cap matches that of the Selous Scouts, which fought black insurgent armies in former Rhodesia
The Army is facing a backlash among officers over a new cap badge “identical” to those worn by an apartheid terror squad.
Multiple officers privy to discussions about the beret for the newly formed Ranger Regiment have raised serious concerns that the badge may have been designed based on the one worn by the Selous Scouts, the disbanded special forces regiment from the Rhodesian Army.
The former unit fought black insurgent armies in the Sixties and Seventies as part of their quest to keep white-minority rule over what is now Zimbabwe.
One defence source told The Telegraph: “An officer said he had seen an email saying that it was actually based on the...