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RE: The South African Border War - Operation Seiljag
Great post. I've work for 10 years in the military industry with various of the veterans that fought in the Border War. There are various interesting stories you here when you 'braai' with them. As far as I understand Seiljag was one of the earlier operations.
What was the role of the Recces during this operation? As far as I know they were instrumental to elimination of enemy front-line forces. Please do a write-up on some of the Recce operations! ;)
The South African Reconnaissance Commando was quite newly formed in 1977, their main objective in the case of Seiljag would have been information gathering, I do not think they were involved in Seiljag as at this stage the unit was quite small and mainly on missions in Zimbabwe ( then Rhodesia), the official unit only came into existence in 1970 with Commandant Breytenbach hand picking 11 men to join him, previously the operations were carried out under the Hunter Group and only formally recognized as a unit in 1972.
I am also interested to hear more about the Recces.
Recces were everywhere and nowhere all the time.
What do you mean?
they operated in small groups and were pretty much active all the time, wherever necessary, but nobody would generally know about it.
I see what you mean. Did they actually do anything useful though?
They where super useful and in some cases a single Recce took out a full enemy base. They are known for "Guerrilla warfare" and trust me, there are the most hard-core people I have met in my life!
What do you mean by hard core? Yeah makes sense! 😀 😃 😄
they would get there..."the firstest, the fastest, with the mostest"