A Mirage F1CZ touches down at AFB #Rundu

The 81 mm Mortar Pit at #Rundu. The sand had the same composition as beach sand, requiring the sides of the pit to be secured with sandbags. Note the numbered ‘rigtings palings’ (directional poles). These allowed the ‘Number 1s’ on the gun to bring the weapon quickly into action and to fire on predetermined targets

The ‘Aapkas’ tower and below it – our water source. #Rundu, Kavangoland, 1985

A ball-point drawing of the entrance-way to the ‘Crazy Horse Saloon’ bunker, #Rundu, Kavangoland, 4 January 1985

Slain #PLAN combatant is brought back to the #Koevoet base at #Tsandi. Uukwaluudhi 7 April 1989

#Koevoet gunner checks his Browning machine-guns on the #Wolf armoured personnel carrier before embarking on an early-morning patrol from #Oshakati. April 1989

Sunset return to base of #Koevoet in #Casspir and Wolf vehicles. 1988

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Arn Durand’s #Koevoet team in hostile territory, stopping to helping a young elephant calf back to it’s mother, Kavango, Southwest Africa circa. 1980s

Durand survived 127 enemy contacts with SWAPO during his 6 year career with Koevoet in Southwest Africa, including three separate landmine explosions. He has written two books about his com…Read More

#Koevoet personnel inspect a captured #SA-7 after a contact with SWAPO PLAN insurgents in southern Angola 1984.

Made in Russia. The 9K32 Strela-2 (Russian: C?????, “arrow”; NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail) is a man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude surface-to-air missile system with a high explosive warhead and passive infrared homing gui…Read More