Following on my previous 9 posts on the SADF, last night's chat with the Princess's boss did bring back some memories not so good.
a) The young Infantry man, shot in the face by his friend by accident. You don't survive an R1 bullet into the face.
b) My friend, DL, a Luit. with 32 battalion, shot in the back of the head by enemy fire. Dead
c) A family member, (on the Princess's side), a corporal, killed while protecting an injured member of his platoon during an ambush.
d) NB - lost an eye, and many friends when the chopper that was casavaking them got hit by an RPG.
e) A "noddy car" driver, the most careful and safest man I knew in SWA, who took the wheel of our "wolf", and whilst parking it under a tree had his legs blown off by a land mine. His last word to me were, "What the fuck happened?", and then he died.
To those who I can't recall right now, those who I don't know of, I say "Thank You!'.
Salagatle!
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