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Enlisting in the Army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1961, Scott-Donelan was one of the original members of the resuscitated C Squadron (Rhodesia) Special Air Service, where he was introduced to the concepts of irregular warfare and tactical tracking by Allan Savory, a game ranger known for his innovative and successful concepts in hunting down heavily armed elephant and rhino poachers.
In 1968 Scott-Donelan was posted to the new Tracker Combat Unit (TCU), commanded by Allan Savory, with the mission of tracking down and annihilating Communist-trained and equipped nationalist insurgents infiltrating the Rhodesian border from Zambia and Mozambique. He went on to command the TCU and was responsible for the selection and training of expert trackers for the unit, which was beginning to make a name for itself on operations. In 1974b the TCU was absorbed by an innovative new counterinsurgency unit known as the Selous Scouts, and Scott-Donelan was posted to the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), which was heavily involved in helicopter and airborne operations against armed terrorist gangs infiltrating Rhodesia in increasing numbers. After several years of nonstop action in the RLI, he served as an intelligence officer at a Brigade HQ and Combined Operations HQ, Rhodesia's equivalent of the Pentagon. Frustrated with staff duties, he agitated for a transfer to the Selous Scouts and was appointed Officer Commanding Training Group, which included the Tracking and Bush Survival School, the notorious "Wafa Wafa, " on the shores of Lake Kariba.
In 1980, due to intense political pressure from the United States, Britain and the United Nations, Rhodesia, after having never lost a battle, lost the war and became the Republic of Zimbabwe.
Joining the South African Special Forces in 1980 as a member of 5 Reconnaissance Regiment, he commanded the regiment's Developmental Wing, which was responsible for establishing a complete training and operational resource base as well as conducting training programs for several guerrilla armies. Five years later he was seconded to the South-West Africa Territorial Force as a company commander and made responsible for operations against the Peoples Liberation Army of Namibia infiltrating into South- West Africa/Namibia from Angola and Zambia.
Immigrating to the United States in 1989, he is now the training director of the Tactical Tracking Operations School, which trains law enforcement, corrections, and military personnel in the same tracking techniques that proved so successful against armed and dangerous fugitives in Africa.
This book was originally conceived as a training resource for military special operations units and personnel involved in low-intensity counterguerrilla warfare and not specifically for the law-enforcement and corrections communities. Read the first page
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This review is from: Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers (Paperback)
I found this book to be very helpful. We use this as a text book for advanced tracking in our Search and Rescue team.
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By michael f. wilson (honeoye falls, ny United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers (Paperback)
David Scott-Donelan is a dear friend of mine. I am a member of Vietnam Veterans of America and Veterans of Foreign Wars. David spent approximately 30 years as a combat tracker, trainer, and officer in charge of training the most elite fighting force the world has ever known. His book is a Bible for Military Personnel who will need Tracking Skills, Law Enforcement people, and Corrections Department People who will have to track and apprehend DANGEROUS armed fugitives. It is not for the meek of heart to read this book. To do what Capt David Scott-Donelan did in Southern Africa for 30 years requires skills that few men in the history of mankind ever possessed. Yet a more gentle and friendly a person you will never find anywhere. If you want to know about serious combat tracking, read the book, and try to get your department to send you to his Tracking School. It will be money worth spent. It will save your life by using the most aggressive tracking methodsever developed in history by the man who wrote the history!
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Surprisingly little tracking information for a tracking book,
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This review is from: Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers (Paperback)
I bought this after a Search and Rescue mission, hoping to get an insight on tracking subjects that may be avoiding the search teams.The author spends over half the already short text on either self-congratulatory war stories or "my favorite gun" weapon reviews. The latter in fact are so totally subjective as to be essentially useless. (As a side note, it was the only time in my life I've EVER heard the Mini-14 referred to as having "excellent accuracy") This book is a definite pass. After a quick skim, I sent it straight back to Amazon to get Jack Kearney's "Tracking, a blueprint for learning how."
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