Mike the Warthog
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Former SA Navy (E1 - O5) I also talk a lot of smack for someone who falls over while putting their underwear on Divide et Impera
Ex Saffa in Bulgaria
Joined February 2015
19 Dec 1983 : - SWAPO had sent out a strong force against the eight-man recce team of 32 Battalion in the Chipolo area, but after two 32 Battalion rifle companies, supported by Alouette gunships, were rushed to the area, four SWAPO were killed in the subsequent counter attack. -
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SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. 19 December: 1941 HMS Neptune (Capt R. O’Connor) sinks after striking mines off Tripoli, Libya, and 763 men, including 18 South Africans, lose their lives. 1956 The keel of SAS Rijger, a Ford class SDB is laid at the Vosper Ltd. Yard in Portsmouth,
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Reproduced photos from Cpl. Charles L. Cowell. A South African supply column moving up Sallum Pass November 1942
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A South African Eland 90 armoured car from Battle Group Foxbat towing a bogged down UNITA bus during Operation Savannah in 1975 (Original photo by Stefan Fourie (RIP))
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18 Dec 1985 : - SAAF C-130 aircraft transported seven Unimog Sabre vehicles and 50 Reconnaissance force troops into Mavinga to carry out hit and run operations against the enemy between Menongue and Cuito Cuanavale during Operation Abrasion.
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18 Dec 1979 : - 3 Squadron SAAF flew an escort mission, escorting a Mirage III R2Z on a Photo-Reconnaissance deep into Angola, along the Lubango-Menongue railway line. - A Mirage III (Recce Version) conducted a tactical reconnaissance mission to Lubango and Menongue (Angola),
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Burghers of the Orange Free State in the field during the Anglo-Boer War, circa 1900.
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18 Dec 1983: - On the morning a Fapla Brigade attacked the temporary base of a platoon of the South African deception force deployed in the general area west of Caiundo during which eight members of the Security Forces were killed, five lightly wounded, one confirmed captured and
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18 Dec 1975 : - Ordered to resume its advance towards Catofe in support of Battle Group Orange's attempt to rebuilt and cross the bridge across the Pombuige River, Battle Group Foxbat encountered mines and while busy lifting them, received some intense enemy rocket fire from
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"America's Final Supply Chain" - United States Antimony: Securing America's Critical Future Episode 1: "The Forgotten Frontier - Alaska's Antimony Awakening" $UAMY Grateful to @calebjhull for helping us bring this story to life in a way that does justice to the mission. The
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F-86 Sabre “Ruth II”, of 2 Squadron, SAAF, in Korea. USAF Photo.
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1978 - Springs Mayor, Marius Nel, laying a wreath at a Memorial service at Central Flying School, Dunnottar.
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