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

#Koevoet patrol taken near #Rundu in the Kavango region of South West Africa/Namibia 30/08/1988.

A highly effective but highly controversial paramilitary Police force, Koevoet (meaning “crow bar”) abbreviated Operation K or SWAPOL- COIN (South West African Police Counter Insurgency) was a major paramilitary organisation under South Afr…Read More

#Koevoet in Ovamboland #Casspir