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Date: Wed 21/11/07 6:45PM
From: Douw G Steyn
Email: douwgs@yahoo.com

Message: Geseende Kersfees, Merry Christmas, 86253440BG Kpl Steyn Intelligence Korps 1988/89 Sektor 40 and 10 SWAGM. This makes me proud to see pictures and memories of a great Army!! Tons of good and sad memories, Would I do it again? In a heart beat!!


Date: Mon 26/11/07 6:22PM
From: "Jakes" Jacobs
Email: jcsbuilding@vodamail.co.za

Message: 84538073BG Kpl - Infantry school '87; 52bn Oshakati '88, waar's julle? Bester, Aucamp, Meiring, Baart, Scafetter, Dreier X2, Buringer, Maj. Rodgers, ens.


Date: Thu 29/11/07 3:03AM
From: Sgt. Rhode
Email: sylvilr@msn.com

Message: sadf sounds like a tuff gig and thats coming from a solider of the united states army


Date: Thu 29/11/07 4:18AM
From: Mossie Mostert
Email: amostert@odysseylife.co.za

Message: Was in weermag 1978-1979..11 kommando, jl's Oudshoorn en dan Inligtingskorps.Het diens gedoen op grens 'n paar keer.Is op soek na die kenteken of enige iets wat te doen het met 51VK waar ek my heel laaste kamp gedoen het..sal altyd my weermag onthou..dit was GREAT


Date: Sun 2/12/07 9:34AM
From: Gastao Gorgulho
Email: beseatedct@hotmail.com

Message: 79214318bg 83-85 Intake [june] saaf gymnasium. I still remember valhalla beach all that marching and it rains on our passing out parade. Very big up to our mates in the army u were brilliant. Anyone remember me? lol.


Date: Mon 10/12/07 12:05AM
From: Suzanne Groenewald
Email: suzannegroenewald@yahoo.com

Message: Ek is 'n 25-jarige Sielkunde student wat my meestersgraad wil doen oor post-traumatiese stres by weermag soldate. Ek kry bitter min inligting oor die grensoorlog op die internet en sal baie graag met 'n paar manne wil kontak wat voel dat daar te min gedoen is na die oorlog om hulle geestesgesondheid te herstel. Ek wil graag 'n behandelingsplan opstel wat die weermag kan gebruik om die skade te herstel. Daars soveel tyd spandeer om die ouens te leer veg, maar nie om hulle "reg" te kry na oorlog nie.Hierdie is 'n wonderlike website en ek kry trane in my oe as ek hoor van die ouens wat op daardie stadium soveel verantwoordelikheid moes dra en die "groot koppe" wat in die parlement gesit en praat het en te bang was om self 'n geweer vas te hou


Date: Tue 11/12/07 12:24AM
From: Marius Oberholzer
Email: oberho_m@mtn.co.za

Message: Hi I was based at Mashari with 511 troop during 87. i miss the good jolls at Grootfontein. good web page


Date: Wed 12/12/07 3:53PM
From: k.livingstn
Email: klvngstn@mweb.com

Message: any old gunners { G5 } from 87- 88


Date: Thu 16/12/07 9:02PM
From: Mike McNamara
Email: mike@agmac.co.za

Message: Sure brings back some memories.Basics 2 Field Eng Regiment in 1982 then School of Engineers was on the border in Sept & Oct 1983 sector 10 Oshakati 25 field


Date: Sat 22/12/07 3:10PM
From: Ettienne Schwagele
Email: ettienne.schwagele@earthlink.net

Message: 6 SAI 83 to 85. Umbalantu, Elundu, Baken 16, Fox Ops - Ondangwa, retired to VIP Protection unit Pretoria. Did camps with University of Pretoria Military Unit 'UMPE' and Reg Uitenhage. I remember wandering around the flooded shonas of Umbalantu, patrols around Elundu, land mine explosion in the Odilla river bed near Baken 16, and walking Oom Willie's fucking road hundreds of times escorting the sappers. Good times, good memories.


Date: Mon 24/12/07 5:33AM
From: Frans van Niekerk Cpl
Email: fransvn@mcmotor.co.za

Message: Hi chaps... remember the sunsets we enjoyed ?Let us think of our friends who did not return home with us... Have a good festive season!


Date: Mon 24/12/07 7:48AM
From: Gary Smith
Email: goofyroolz@hotmail.com

Message: 84625334BG - Posted various pics of my time with 2SSB in Zeerust and SWA '88-'89. I was a ''spanbev'' with a great crew; Yentz Bacher my gunner, Reece my driver and the best mechanic who could fix almost anything. Lots of thoughts go through my head, my mates, the guy's in other units we worked with, the freaky times, especially the laughs we had when we rolled the Ratel in Lohatla during "Ops Sweepslag", lest we forget all the ''Oppies''. All good memories. We made a difference at the time no matter what role we played. Some more than others I guess, to those who fought and gave the ultimate sacrifice, we will never forget you. We did it for the Orange, the white, and the Blue, for you South Africa!


Date: Wed 26/12/07 8:27PM
From: Frans van der Westhuizen
Email: trichardt@co.nz

Message: Wat Amerika en George Bush nog van terrorisme moet leer het ons al van vergeet. Ek is 'n baie trotse SA'kaner woonagtig oorsee. Die lot oosee ken net een woord, apartheid en het geen benul van wat in Suid Afrika aangegaan het nie. Het opleiding gedoen in 1 Spesiale Diens Bateljon (1SDB) in Pretoria 1971-1972 en baie trots daarop. Moes selfs op my "ou dag" kampe doen in die vroee 90's agv die ANC se aanvalle op strategiese instellasies soos refinaderye ens. Manne van daardie era is baie welkom om my te kontak. Sal nooit vergeet nie - tel eendag 'n Paratus tydskrif op met 'n sonsondergang op die SWA grens met 'n SA Impala wat so laag vlieg - die opskrif van die artikel "First Rhodesia, then SWA......then us", dit in 1971 manne?


Date: Sun 30/12/07 3:22PM
From: Cpl P.C. Snyders
Email: pcsnyders@hotmail.com

Message: 98254261PF - (1 Signal Regt) - Always great to learn about the past. Thanks for this website! A prosperous new year to all!


Date: Thu 3/3/08 3:22AM
From: MG Thomson
Email: mathom@telusplanet.net

Message: Thanks for the memories good and bad. I'd forgotten a lot of mates, this brought them back. 78-79 Cheers!


Date: Sat 5/1/08 7:13PM
From: Charles Pritchard
Email: charlespritchard@xtra.co.nz

Message: My pa was in weermag al die jare 'n Tiffy AO JRM Pritchard sal darvan hou as iemand hom kan onthou


Date: Mon 7/1/08 8:31AM
From: Cobus du plessis (smiler)
Email: cobus@cmcbooths.co.za

Message: I was at 4 SAI Middleburg 1978-79. Platoon 10 Bravo Company. Would like others to contact me


Date: Mon 7/1/08 8:33AM
From: 79232575BG
Email: dcimma@anglocoal.com

Message: Thanks for the site! We need to keep these sites alive or we and what we did will die with them. I was in Provost school in 1981/82 and was in Ops protea and patrolled from Elundu with 54 Bn. Some good school mates died during this period including Alan de Klerk who was shot down with the chopper that went down on 9 August 1982 in Angola. Lets also remember to keep looking forward who knows what the future holds.


Date: Mon 7/1/08 8:39AM
From: Wesie vd Westhuizen
Email: jvdw@gwisa.com

Message: 77418481bg/t. 1980 intake 2 SSB Zeerust C-Escadron. done ops protea and askari been there, done it!


Date: Mon 7/1/08 12:29PM
From: Andrew McManus
Email: andrew@chiorino.co.za

Message: A great site, thank you for the effort! 86 1SAI and 87 61Mech, 20mm gunner. Modular seems like yesterday. How do you explain to those who were not there, how you feel when a house breaker steals your medals?




 
         
 
 

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