1 Reconnaissance Commando 1st Selection Course for 2 Reconnaissance Commando
(VK21 Selection Course) 1974.08.12 until 1974.08.30

2 Reconnaissance Commando 2nd Selection Course (REC 7510).

SAAF Mirage F1AZ

7 June 1980 Border War, Operation Sceptic. Capt IC Du Plessis landed his badly damaged Mirage F1AZ at Ruacana. The aircraft was damaged by shrapnel from an SAM Missile fired at the aircraft during the bombing of a target. He barely made it to Ruacana with the assistance of Budgie Burgers who was flying a Telstar Imp and guided him in to Ruacana.…Read More

32 Battalion troops before Ops Alpha Centauri, 1986

Early pic of a #Mirage IIICZ during an ACM camp

#Mirage F1AZ’s at AFB #Ondangwa in the Operational Area during the bush war

Entrance to 5 Special Forces Regiment

Colonel Breytenbach not only founded the South African Special Forces (the Reconnaissance Commandos, or “Recces”) and 44 Parachute Brigade, but 32 Battalion as well