Archive for December, 2011
Correction - the base mentioned is Hurricane Base, which is the Ruacana airfield.
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Thanks Roscoe.... looking good! Great to have you on board! I joined the group and would love to see! Regards Johan
Time for the stupid questions - which I couldn't see quickly on the site. Where does Pretoria Reg. fall into all of this. We took the tanks up and then stayed with them until sometime in January, when we handed over. If memory serves we were in Ops. Hooper and Modular. I remember one time we had to drive down to Mavinga to get more diesel for the tanks and while we were gone, someone kindly moved the front line. After driving around Angola for an afternoon looking for our unit, we stumbled onto a area command (it was rumoured that Unita's number 2 was on site). I walked into the command tent and asked if anyone knew where our unit was and no-one had even heard of us. We finally agreed that we were associated to 61 Mech and pointed in a general direction. Another story after that, running into a small battle with only three diesel bunkers... : ) Cheers Ep
Time for the stupid questions - which I couldn't see quickly on the site. Where does Pretoria Reg. fall into all of this. We took the tanks up and then stayed with them until sometime in January, when we handed over. If memory serves we were in Ops. Hooper and Modular. I remember one time we had to drive down to Mavinga to get more diesel for the tanks and while we were gone, someone kindly moved the front line. After driving around Angola for an afternoon looking for our unit, we stumbled onto a area command (it was rumoured that Unita's number 2 was on site). I walked into the command tent and asked if anyone knew where our unit was and no-one had even heard of us. We finally agreed that we were associated to 61 Mech and pointed in a general direction. Another story after that, running into a small battle with only three diesel bunkers... : ) Cheers Ep
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