South African Defense Force 32 Battalion troopers in They both wear Pattern 83 “battle jackets”, “Transkei” elite camo berets, and carry folding-stock Vektor automatic rifles.
The Battalion did not only play an integral part during Operation Savannah in 1975 as well as all other major external operations of the SADF such as the Battle of Cuito Quanavale in 1987/88 (one of the last great campaigns during the Cold War), but from 1976 until 1989 the battalion was deployed on an almost permanent basis to conduct offensive operations mainly inside Angola, acting as a buffer between the SADF’s regular forces and its communist enemies.
