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	South African Special Forces Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The South African Special Forces Brigade is the main special forces unit of the South African Army.
		The first South African special forces unit, 1 Reconnaissance Commando, was established in the town of Oudtshoorn, Cape Province on 1 October 1972.
		In 1991, the structure of the special forces underwent another change, when the special forces headquarters was disbanded and a Directorate Reconnaissance, reporting directly to the Chief of the Army, was established instead.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reconnaisance_Commandos (663 words)

	GESKIEDENIS
		The origins of South African Special Forces are to be found in the accumulation and germination of certain ideas and insights during 1969 in the minds of the senior echelons of the SADF.
		The conception of a South African Special Forces unit can be traced to meetings held at GHQ in Pretoria and with the members of the Supreme Command in Cape Town during the latter months of 1969.
		The first Special Forces grouping in the SADF was initiated under various cover names as a sub structure of the School of Infantry in Oudtshoorn.
	samagte.freewebpages.org /spesmagte/speshistory.html (1312 words)

	Articles - South African Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The South African military evolved within the tradition of frontier warfare fought by popular militias and small irregular commando forces, reinforced by the Afrikaners' historical distrust of large standing armies.
		After the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, General Jan Smuts, the Union's first Minister of Defence, placed a high priority on creating a unified military out of the separate armies of the union's four provinces.
		The South African 2nd Infantry Division also took part in a number of actions in North Africa during 1942, but on 21 June 1942 two complete infantry brigades of the division as well as most of the supporting units were captured at the fall of Tobruk.
	www.x-moto.net /articles/South_African_Army (1800 words)

	SpecWarNet -S. Africa's Special Forces Brigade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1975, during the move of 1 RC to Durban, 4 Reconnaissance Commando was established in Langebaan, South Africa.
		The Headquarters unit of the Special Forces was disbanded and a Directorate of Reconnaissance was formed.
		The South African "Recces" were deployed to many local hot spots during the late 1970's and early 1980's, particularly Angola.
	www.specwarnet.com /world/sasfb.htm (1073 words)

	CUITO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		South African observers, watching the crossing, were amazed at the over-confident behaviour of the enemy, with infantrymen standing around casually, hands in pockets, watching the crossing.
		The South Africans, after their initial shock at encountering the tanks, had adapted their tactics and proved that their armoured cars could cope with tanks by a combination of fast movement and accurate shooting, tactics reminiscent of those used by the Boers against the British over 80 years earlier.
		South African observers watched in disgust as Fapla soldiers shot many of their own wounded where they lay because they were unable to evacuate them or give them medical care.
	home.wanadoo.nl /rhodesia/cuito.htm (4347 words)

	Special Forces in a Settlement South Africa - South Afrcan Defence Review No 12, 1993
		To sum up the role of the special forces generally, they are selected and specially trained small groups of men, who penetrate the enemy, to carry out their specific tasks.
		On the one hand the nature of their work requires that special forces be provided with the very best intelligence available, while on the other hand, because of where they operate, they are uniquely placed to obtain accurate information about the enemy.
		In all these type of tasks, such as early warning, tactical intelligence-gathering, target identification and acquisition, and special detailed reconnaissance ('direct eyes and hands on study of the enemy positions'), the close association of special forces to the intelligence community and the interplay between the two organisations is obvious.
	www.iss.co.za /pubs/ASR/SADR12/Sass.html (3417 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: South Africa: Chemical Overview
		The apartheid-era South African government viewed itself as the target of a "total onslaught" by Soviet-backed Marxist guerrillas or regimes in neighboring states and fl nationalists at home, and to meet this all-encompassing "red-fl danger" it was apparently willing to use almost any means at its disposal to defend itself.
		In a collective 1971 report on CBW commissioned by the South African government, he declared that members of the family of lethal fluoroacetates, which are stable, odorless and colorless, easily made, commercially available as rodenticides, and have delayed symptoms, were especially well-suited for use by enemy "terrorists and saboteurs" to poison water supplies.
		However, despite allegations that the South African military carried out other CW attacks against enemy troops in neighboring "frontline" states, e.g., during their successful 1978 raid on Cassinga, there is no definitive evidence that chemical weapons were used in an offensive capacity on these occasions.
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Chemical (11767 words)

	Special Forces Units
		Special operations are forces that fight unconventional battles that ordinary line infantry is incapable of.
		It requires a special type of warrior, a professional soldier who is intelligent, dedicated, and motivated.
		These security forces were attempting (and many times succeeded) to track and neutralize small US teams providing critical intelligance data to the US effort there.
	www.specwarnet.net /sf.htm (296 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- PARATROOPING PIONEER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Founded by fifteen South Africans who had been trained as parachutists in the United Kingdom in the previous year, 1 Parachute Brigade is popularly regarded as the first South African parachute unit.
		He was to investigate the viability of establishing an airborne force in South Africa and, for this purpose, he would be detached for Special Duties to the United Kingdom Forces in July 1942.
		The British recommended that the South Africans try the US-built Waco (Hadrian) glider, which was produced largely from steel tubing and canvas fabric.(18) This too, came to naught, as the Allies did not regard the development of airborne forces by South Africa as a priority.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol102ma.html (4010 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- The South Africans at Delville Wood
		The attacking force was to consist of the 26th and 27th Brigades of the 9th Division, which would assault the village of Longueval on the dawn of 14 July; the South African brigade would remain in reserve.
		Maj Edward Burges, second-in-command of the 1st South African Infantry Regiment and commander of D Company, pushed northwards and managed to effect a junction with the 76th Brigade (3rd Division), which was similarly advancing on Longueval.
		He led the brigade with distinction during the fierce fighting in April 1918, in the vicinity of Messines, West Flanders, to his brigade went the honour of being in the forefront of the final advance to victory.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol072iu.html (11576 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: South Africa: Biological Overview
		South Africa's biological weapons program was one of the two principal components of its covert state-sponsored CBW program, codenamed Project Coast (later Project Jota).
		There is no evidence that South Africa developed or produced BW agents of any type prior to the establishment of Project Coast, but by the early 1980s advanced research on many virulent biological pathogens had already been carried out for decades at several of the nation's leading medical, veterinary, and agricultural facilities.
		Perhaps the most noteworthy case is that of Dr. Daan Goosen, who was working on a snake venom project for the South African Army at the H. Grové Centre when he was approached by Basson in 1983 and asked to turn over some mamba toxin so that a security threat could be eliminated.
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/SAfrica/Biological (11482 words)

	Somalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Radu Gabriel Mateescu, is Ambassador of Romania in South Africa.
		South African MONUC contingent were told "they were welcome to return home and resign if they were unhappy with conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo."
		Freeing South Africa from the Yoke of Apartheid, pp 281-496.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/africa03/afr6.htm (5146 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Special Forces Operator Para Wing, Proposed 1995, Never Adopted, Orginal.
		Special Forces Supply Depot Shoulder Flash, proposed in 1993 but never adopted, single cloth embroided.
		South African Police Cap Badge, worn by Senior Officers, embroided wire, padded.
	www.warstore.co.za /ALLBG.asp?ItemID=4 (1510 words)

	The S.W.A.T. Shop
		The original prints were a limited edition with facsimile signatures of Breytanbach and Recce OC in 1994 and SOLD OUT quickly.....NOTE Some of the copies have minor edge damage and faint marks..Otherwise Mint-/Exc condition.
		SERGEANT MAJOR'S of the SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE FORCES.
		Fictional story of a African bush pilot forced into a dangerous air-lift mission of a African political leader but plans go wrong.
	members.fortunecity.com /swatshop/page12.htm (1248 words)

	Osprey Publishing - World Special Forces Insignia
		There exists among the world's armies a proliferation of special forces groups.
		Today's smaller armies, especially those of developing nations, demand maximum efficiency in force structure and employment.
		Mountain, jungle, arctic and desert areas require special purpose units trained, conditioned, and equipped to master these environments.
	www.ospreypublishing.com /title_detail.php?title=Q865X (104 words)

	recce: recce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The following is an index, with one line per recce trip, giving the principal places visited.
		Although the former "Recce" units were more well known, the Special Forces Brigade(the modern "Recce" Units) is now more powerful and more.
		DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE CC Seoul Standard Operating Procedures 2-2 607th Weather Squadron (PACAF) 09-Jun-2004 General RECCE FORECAST 1.0.
	www.class-vip.com /recce.html (264 words)

	South African Special Forces League :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		'The Special Forces Operator' is copyrighted by the South African Special Forces League.
		However, the League would like to state that we will not enforce this copyright in respect of any formal Special Forces units or Special Forces Veterans Organisations internationally.
		In the spirit of the International Brotherhood amongst Special Forces Operators, we feel that this verse applies to any of our Brother Operators, anywhere in the world, and should you wish to use or display this verse, we would be proud and happy for you to do so.
	www.recce.co.za (243 words)

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