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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Koevoet (SWAPOL TIN)

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    Koevoet team in the bush

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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Koevoet (SWAPOL TIN)

    • 1 year, 11 months ago

    Pete Stassen with Frans’s beloved Ford F250 that Frans called Percy. A hoofman gave the bakkie to Frans after SWAPO PLAN attacked the hoofmans kraal, Frans and his team ZF went and smacked SWAPO around for attacking the kraal. Frans got a SAP number for the bakkie from the office for fuel and spare parts seeing he was using it for work but the…Read More

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    To Hell and Back with Koevoet ‘Both my guns are jammed. I’m dead meat, a sitting duck. All the insurgent has to do is pull the trigger of his RPG-7 rocket launcher. My heart surges, pumping pure adrenalin through my...

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    Operation Prawn: Attacks on Line of Rail: Barragem to Malvernia: August, 1976   Reconnaissance teams dropped in by free-fall parachuting and by helicopters along the line of rail, confirmed information to hand that ZANLA were making extensive and ever increasing use...

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    Operation Prawn: Attacks on Line of Rail: Barragem to Malvernia: August, 1976   Reconnaissance teams dropped in by free-fall parachuting and by helicopters along the line of rail, confirmed information to hand that ZANLA were making extensive and ever increasing use...

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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group 32Bn ’Buffalo’

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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Rhodesian Bush War

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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group 2 Reconnaissance Regiment

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    The First Citizens Force Operational Parachute Jump in the South African Defence Force on the Night of 14 December 1975 by Operators of 2 Reconnaissance Commando South African Special Forces.

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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group 2 Reconnaissance Regiment

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    The First 2 Reconnaissance Commando Selection Course VK 21/RC21 1974

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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Rhodesian Bush War

    • 1 year, 11 months ago

    This photograph is of basic static line course #76 in about 1977. This was one of the first Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) parachute courses to be run and included the C.O and 3 Officers.

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    Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group Rhodesian Bush War

    • 1 year, 11 months ago

    Lynx escorting a Dak en route to a para drop

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