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Jonas Savimbi posted in the group UNITA

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Jonas Savimbi

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AFB Ondangwa

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December 27, 2023

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Air Force Base Ondangwa was initially established at the Ondangwa Airfield on 2 February 1972, under the name "Playboy". The only military presence at that time in the area was at Oshakati, which fell under 1 Military Area in...

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XO BBHQ posted in the group South African Border War

• 2 years, 6 months ago

Line up of #Pumas at what was then the South African Air Force Base #Ondangwa sep 1986
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Somali, US Forces Kill Al-Shabaab Commander

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December 22, 2023

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Somali troops and US forces this week killed a senior commander of the Al-Shabaab militant group with a $10 million American bounty on his head, the African nation’s information minister said. The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists have led a 16-year insurgency against...

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XO BBHQ posted in the group 2 Squadron ’Flying Cheetahs’ SAAF

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Mirage IIICZ

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XO BBHQ posted in the group 2 Squadron ’Flying Cheetahs’ SAAF

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AFB Langebaanweg Weapons Camp… was fun times

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XO BBHQ posted in the group 4 Special Forces Regiment

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Operators from 4 Recce #Recce
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Operators from 4 Recce #Recce
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Operators from 4 Recce #Recce
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SOUTH AFRICAN BORDER WAR

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28 Jun 1987 Mupa	Mupa is shelled with mortars from 32 Battalion as part of Operation Radbraak with the intention of flushing out SWAPO	39
28 Jun 1985	On 28 June, PLAN insurgents entered South West Africa damaging a bridge between Epali and Ondangwa, sabotaging twenty telephone poles, mortaring the Eenhana SADF base and a bomb was detonated at the Ongwediva Teachers Training College	41

RHODESIAN BUSH WAR

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The F-86 Sabre in combat in Guinea-Bissau Part 1
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