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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Koevoet (SWAPOL TIN)
Inside of a Koevoet Casspir
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
1987: 5 Recce meeting Koevoet in Southwest Africa (modern day Namibia)
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Special Forces – Recces
1, 4, and 5 Recce operators during the last ever Small Team course, just after the Angolan War
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Rhodesian Bush War
C U Shortly
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group 1 Recce
South African 1 Recce operator L CPL Ribeiro, missing and listed as dead during casualty transport in Angola, August 1976. He served as an Angolan paratrooper before joining the SADF. Ribeiro was one of the founding members of 32 Battalion. Here he is wearing “Recce 1st camo pattern” which was the inspiration behind 32Bn camo
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Special Forces – Recces
Recce Operators
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Selous Scouts
Selous Scouts flying a FRELIMO flag on a cross border raid
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Rhodesian Bush War
Eland 90 during Operation Miracle
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Rhodesian Bush War
Operation Snoopy: RLI and SAS vs ZANLA in 25 camps over 32 square kilometers. Several hundred ZANLA killed and 2 Rhodesian casualties.
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| 20 Dec 1987 Tempue | A FAPA Hind MI-8T helicopter is shot down at Tempue in Angola leaving one dead. The aircraft is piloted by W/O Alejandro Diaz from Cuba | 38 |
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| 20 Dec 1976 Wamba | A ZANLA platoon entered the labour compound of the Aberfoyle Tea Estate in the Eastern Highlands of Rhodesia and gunned down twenty-seven men in front of their horrified families. | 49 |
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