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32 Battalion troops before Ops Alpha Centauri, 1986
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32 Battalion somewhere in Angola in the 80’s
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Sgt. Appolinario from 32 Battalion, SADF, sitting at Buffalo base, 1980’s
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32 Battalion troop awaits an Alouette III in Angola, late 1970’s
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32 Battalion operators with a Valkiri MRL during operation Modular, 1987
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32 Battalion, Peter Williams with an R4 and Makarov pistol on his birthday, 1980
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32 Battalion troop: Marques Felix, Angola 1980’s #32Bn
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32 Battalion Cpl. Maurício António boarding a #Puma, 1980s #32Bn
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SADF 32 Battalion operator Peter Burley armed with a captured RPK LMG #32Bn
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32 Battalion (sometimes nicknamed Buffalo Battalion, Three-two battalion or Portuguese: Os Terríveis for The Terrible Ones) was an elite light infantry battalion of the South African Army founded in 1975, composed of black and white commissioned and enlisted personnel. It was disbanded on 26 March 1993
After the victory of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) in the Angolan War of Independence in 1975, many troops of its main rival, the Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (National Liberation Front of Angola, FNLA), found refuge in the then South African-controlled South West Africa.
From these troops, Colonel Jan Breytenbach together with Commandant Sybie van der Spuy formed a unit that was initially known as Bravo Group but later renamed 32 Battalion. Initially, Bravo Group consisted of two infantry companies, a mortar platoon, an anti-tank section and a machine gun platoon, but 32 Battalion was finally expanded to seven infantry companies, a reconnaissance wing, and a support company consisting of 81 mm mortar, anti-tank and machine gun sections
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