Schulenburg received the Grand Cross of Valour in 1978 for an action in which he penetrated an enemy position before returning to his unit and leading a successful assault.

[1] In January 1973, ZANLA fighters attacked a group of white Rhodesian land inspectors near Mount Darwin, killing two and capturing a third, Gerald Hawkesworth, together with his black staff.

The paratroopers killed a ZANLA member carrying a note requesting permission from FRELIMO, a Mozambican nationalist force, to transit the area with Hawkesworth but were unsuccessful in locating or rescuing him.

During this period the Bush War intensified and the Rhodesian Army established the Selous Scouts as a less elitist special forces unit than the SAS.

[6] On another occasion, as a lieutenant, commanding a remote post he established a small poultry farm to provide his men with fresh eggs.

[5] The Rhodesian Bush War ended in 1979 with the Lancaster House Agreement and subsequent transition to black-majority rule as Zimbabwe.

[10] Schulenburg returned to South Africa, and by 1983 was the Transvaal region liaison officer of the Selous Scouts Regimental Association.