You never get the army experience out of you as a true soldier. It is life changing and generally positive. Almost stating the obvious. Well told. Greater respect for medics.
Thanks Chris, lovely hearing your experiences and your thoughts. Still think of you stamping on your stompie and running a sub 8 minute 2.4km. Thanks Buddy.
Hahaaa. I remember ol Chris Lordan. We did basics together in Klipdrift in Jan 1985 and we also did our Ops Medics course together at SAMS College after basics. He referred to Koevoet. I voltd for the Koevoet thing and spent a year with Koevoet. Zulu 4 in Rundu. I had a busy year with Koevoet and spent tons of time in the veld, longest was 6 weeks non-stop, and I experienced 21 contacts, amongst other I was in the first vehicle ever hit by a RPG-75. It came through the vehicle about half a meter to my right. Smoke and dust and the driver did his job and drove out of the contact. A friend of mine, Louis A, who went through the same training with me, and also went to Koevoet, ended up with 24 contacts with Koevoet. After all that we went back to SAMS College with the intention of klaaring out. There we were yet again chased around by a bunch of Corporals and Sergeants who didn't even do any border duty at all. Everything we had gone through simply was relegated to history. It meant nothing to nobody. As a matter of fact nobody ever asked a single question about our experiences. LOL, I suppose it somehow had some form of meening to somebody somewhere, I'm still looking for that oke. LOL. Those were the days. It was fun.
You never get the army experience out of you as a true soldier. It is life changing and generally positive. Almost stating the obvious. Well told. Greater respect for medics.
Thank you for sharing your story. Really enjoyed it
Thanks Chris, lovely hearing your experiences and your thoughts. Still think of you stamping on your stompie and running a sub 8 minute 2.4km. Thanks Buddy.
Well done Chris…..
Hahaaa. I remember ol Chris Lordan. We did basics together in Klipdrift in Jan 1985 and we also did our Ops Medics course together at SAMS College after basics. He referred to Koevoet. I voltd for the Koevoet thing and spent a year with Koevoet. Zulu 4 in Rundu. I had a busy year with Koevoet and spent tons of time in the veld, longest was 6 weeks non-stop, and I experienced 21 contacts, amongst other I was in the first vehicle ever hit by a RPG-75. It came through the vehicle about half a meter to my right. Smoke and dust and the driver did his job and drove out of the contact. A friend of mine, Louis A, who went through the same training with me, and also went to Koevoet, ended up with 24 contacts with Koevoet. After all that we went back to SAMS College with the intention of klaaring out. There we were yet again chased around by a bunch of Corporals and Sergeants who didn't even do any border duty at all. Everything we had gone through simply was relegated to history. It meant nothing to nobody. As a matter of fact nobody ever asked a single question about our experiences. LOL, I suppose it somehow had some form of meening to somebody somewhere, I'm still looking for that oke. LOL. Those were the days. It was fun.
Come and tell your story please, Koos
Thanks for sharing your story Chris. 👍💯
🎉Thank you Guy's 🎉
Hallo Chris
Het jy nog jou hout vlerkie wat jy in Punda Maria gedra het? Dankie vir daai ervaringe.
Syb
Salute / Saluut.