1, 4, and 5 Recce operators during the last ever Small Team course, just after the Angolan War

South African 1 Recce operator L CPL Ribeiro, missing and listed as dead during casualty transport in Angola, August 1976. He served as an Angolan paratrooper before joining the SADF. Ribeiro was one of the founding members of 32 Battalion. Here he is wearing “Recce 1st camo pattern” which was the inspiration behind 32Bn camo

Recce Operators

South African 4 Reconnaissance Commando operators prepping for Operation Nobilis, 10 July 1984.

The First Citizens Force Operational Parachute Jump in the South African Defence Force on the Night of 14 December 1975 by Operators of 2 Reconnaissance Commando South African Special Forces.

The First 2 Reconnaissance Commando Selection Course VK 21/RC21 1974

Recce attack on terr base in Angola

RSM Jose da Costa of SA Special Forces wearing Rhodesian brushstroke camo. Armed with a Hungarian AMD-65. 1980s, Angolan War.

Neves Matias, José Da Costa and Christiano Victorino just before pick-up – Operation Killarney