@@JohnDovey we used a SA company to uplift us ex Baghdad to Numinayah and return. I think I recognise you John but I’m not sure. We got hit a few times (few lol) going into Bdad - 2 KIA 4 WIA😢 Best John
Great interview! John, we have known each other for over 20 years (hard to believe) through social media. Going back to the ArmyTalk days. It was great to hear your story. I learned more about you in these 3 hours than in the whole last 20-plus years! Cheers! Troy
What John describes about the violence in KZN prior to 27 April 1994 was a real thing. The violence in Pietermaritzburg and Richmond was my last 60 day camp in the SADF.
Oh and one more thing, the Super Hyper Vigilant thing, I left the army 2005 last unit was Light Horse Regiment, I am in the Medical field now based in CT in a very how can we say very fast paced action daily in which you have to be Hyper Super Vigilant at all time so I still have PTSD 😂😂, and one colleague is ex SF Doctor
John if I remember correctly on the bar counter was a hollowed out stone covered with a towel I think, I was one of the suckers that lifted the towel and had to slurp a beer out of it needles to say I got Vrot that night with guys
My citizen force unit was also doing camps at port Elizabeth we as a mainly English speaking unit we were quite miffed at how the Saps who we were supporting were too violent doing unnecessary stuff which didn't solve anything 😊
As a former SADF trooper that served from 74-85 i have to say you explained things in SA at that time very well and brought back memories thanks brother
All good. Hopefully me getting the opportunity to use this platform will allow what I said to resonate with those of us who were there, and in a small way help to counter the bs that's been said about it. Vasbyt, Lekker nou.
Yeah i meant to add hope alles gaan so goed soos dit kan met jou deesdae en vasbyt al hoe meer the English Afrikaans story before conscription was a thing ,but once we were in the military we soon learned saamwerk cheers boet @@JohnDovey
@@stuartcampbell3861Ja, ek's 'n soutpiel sonder skaam, maar my Afrkaans is vlot genoeg. Baie van my makkers dan en nou is egte Boere, maar jy kannie twyfel dat daar was verskei issues wat ons mekaar laat moerig gemaak het.. ;-)
Yeah same here Jo'Burg soutie ,but as you Natal ous used to say the Vaalies crazy times, TIA, always a sting in the tail for the unwary and the mighty who assume they can change the beat of Africa instead of learning to dance to that beat,but life goes on no matter what. @@JohnDovey
So refreshing to hear after all these years. Wow. Yip. I was approached for officers course by the company OC after thinking I would take the 'chill' route. They got it spot on..best times of my life! Great guys..and girls! All colours. Nam was a great experience.
Oh John... couldn't resist a second comment 1. Mary Metcalf would love an upgrade to British PM from South African local MP 🤣 2. Your magical bird photo is not your shooting skills, it's the absolutely insane AF and animal tracking the new R5 has. As a safari guide, it has blown my mind. Keep it going, it's so therapeutic and there is a world of technical stuff to learn.
LOL. 1. Yeah I screwed that up. It was Mary Robinson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Robinson) 2. Nope. That wasn't AF tracking. My AF was set to people and didn't even pick up the bird. 3. Yes, the AF tracking is insanely good. I'm deep diving into the manual at the mjoment. I'm blown away at how much there is. I was going to try to go "M" but turns out Rv is absolutely mind-blowingly fantastic.
In the SADF in 1981 in one of the border battalions SWATF we had a staff SGT who was dressing down a corporal from Natal who was English , the Staff told him he was kak sleg in Afrikaans meaning ( shit usless) and then the staff asked him has anybody else told him he is shit useless his reply to the staff was " yes staff my father told me that" . Well the wind was totaly knocked out of the staff sergeant.
Fir me a Sandf vet coming back after 13 months on the border was how loud and noisy everything was you were very quiet and stealthy for a long time the noise was deafening it took me weeks to adjust but I had to earn money so I arranged a interview through a friend in Cape Town so I went in my parade stepouts looking very smart needless to say the liberals looked on me like I was dirt yet I had just spent two years serving my country I was overqualified fir that lob but sorry no suit no paycheck😅😅😅😅😅
Not sure if you've considered this or if it might be too much for the guests but it may be beneficial to have the guests record the audio separately on their end so that you can mix it in later before you post the video. audio would be be better. love the show!
@55:30 Sgt Maj (WO1) Jake's "Rooibaard" Oosthuizen - a legendary leader. I first met him at Rundu, in the Kavango region of Namibia (then South West Afrika) in the mid '80's. The was the Sgt Maj of the Sector 20. The second time was in 2007 when as part of the Signals Formation HQ contingent briefing the departing SANDF group joining the UN peacekeeping force in the Sudan. I suddenly saw the red-bearded figure charging at me, shouting "Majoor, wat die fok maak jy hier? _ (Major, what the fuck are you doing here?). A short, five minute, memorable reunion followed. A fiery man who understood his soldiers. 👊🏻⚔️🔥
There's no way I would do that for that long with or any length of of time if I did not at Les get full medical. That's crazy not to have medical benefits after you retire. Even in the reserves you put your body through hell.
@@JohnDovey Well, he is almost correct: South Africa won the war in Angola, the white Afrikaner nationalist / white-supremacist regime (aka the National Party / Boers) lost. How so? Well, South Africa gained her independence from settler-colonial apartheid rule and achieved liberty, similar to the United States on July 4 1776. This was due to the defeat that the white supremacist Weermag suffered, when they for the first time in their history were confronted with an equally matched military opponent, the Allied Angolan-Cuban defense force. Most of the Boer Weermag's prior operational "successes" evolved around shooting unarmed protesters in townships, raiding civilian neighbourhoods in places like Maseru and Lusaka with military forces and mowing down mothers and their babies or massacring entire refugee camps as they did in Cassinga.
@@ikehayes9252 you're demonstrably wrong on everything you say. I understand it's difficult for idealogues to understand factual arguments, so I won't try.
@@JohnDovey If I was "demonstrably" wrong, it should be an easy task for you to prove your point and actually demonstrate the substance of your claims. So, what exactly is wrong?
