Ops Medic : A National Serviceman's Border War - 5 Angebote vergleichen

Von Händler/Antiquariat, CHAPTER TWO [3857508], Kloof, KZN, South Africa.
As a recent British immigrant to South Africa, Steven webb was exempt from the compulsory, two year military call up for National service faced by all white South African males when they turned 18. despite this, he volunteered for National Service and served in the South African Medical Service. He saw service in Angola and at 53-Batallion's base at Etale. Bottom front corner slightly folded. 296 pages with photographs. (W-EYW) Size: Trade Paperback.

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As a recent British immigrant the author was exempt from the compulsory two-year call-up for National Service that all white South African males faced when they turned 18. Despite this he volunteered for National Service in July 1984 and then volunteered to serve in the South African Medical Service. Following basic training he was posted to SAMS' Combat Medical Operation Company (Ops Company) for six months of advanced specialist training. In the lecture room and later in civilian hospitals he learned the arts of stabilising patients, stopping bleeding, maintaining airways, suturing wounds, administering drips and performing minor lifesaving medical procedures. On 1 March 1985 he was sent to SWA/Namibia, where he saw service in Angola until the SADF withdrew its troops a month later. From there he was posted to 53-Battalion's company base at Etale. It was garrisoned by Owambo troops of the SWATF's 101-Battalion and white National Servicemen. He writes about border patrols conducted on foot and in Buffel mine protected fighting vehicles, seeking out SWAPO's armed guerrillas who had infiltrated from Angola and the constant anticipation of ambush by an elusive foe.He tells of the stabilisation and casevac of casualties by helicopter. In truth white National Service units achieved little success in the border war against an underrated enemy. As one senior officer put it: 'In my view SWAPO, despite inferior weaponry, was ahead of us in most respects. We took a boy who had just matriculated, gave him a gun, two or three months of basic training - and threw him into the middle of a country that he didn't know, people he didn't understand and an enemy he had never seen. No wonder he didn't do very well. Nevertheless, the young conscripts bore a terrible load, for which they received little gratitude.' So this is not the story of elite and glamorous fighting units like the Reconnaissance Commandos, Koevoet, 32-Battalion, or the Parachute Battalions and the successes they achieved, but of young, white, conscripted National Serviceman, often straight from school, who were thrown headfirst into a guerrilla war in a country outside of South Africa and far from home. Many National Servicemen, including 37 Ops Medics, died fighting in the Border War. Fifteen were awarded the Honoris Crux (two of the silver grade) for bravery - four posthumously. Hardcover, Edition: 1St Edition, Label: Galago Publishing Pty Ltd, Galago Publishing Pty Ltd, Product group: Book, Published: 2008-03-10, Studio: Galago Publishing Pty Ltd, Sales rank: 11552276.

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Galago Publishing Ltd, 2008. Softcover. Fair. wraps are shelf rubbed, chipped and creased. tanning, soiling and marks. well bound. fair copy.[S.K].

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Lost and Found Books, VIC, Healesville, [RE:4].
pp. 296. soft cover, First edition.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Chapter 1 Books, Johannesburg, [RE:4].
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