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    Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines

    By Koos Stadler

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    A gripping first-hand account of the combat operations and life of a member of the secretive and elite South African Special Forces, known as ‘Recces’.

    South African Special Forces, known as the ‘Recces’, are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they operate. Now one of this select band has written a tell-all book about the extraordinary missions he embarked on and the nail-biting action he experienced in the Border War.

    Shortly after passing the infamously grueling Special Forces selection course in the early 1980s, Koos Stadler joined the so-called Small Teams group at 5 Reconnaissance Regiment. This sub-unit was made up of two-man teams and was responsible for numerous secret and highly dangerous missions deep behind enemy lines.

    With only one other team member, Stadler was sent to blow up railway lines and enemy fighter jets in the south of Angola. As he crawled in and out of enemy-infested territory, he stared death in the face many times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasemate
    Release dateJul 13, 2018
    ISBN9781612006956
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    Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines
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    Koos Stadler

    Koos Stadler is 'n voormalige Recce met nege medaljes op sy kerfstok, waaronder die Honoris Crux (Brons) vir dapperheid en die gesogte Suiderkruis-medalje vir uitsonderlike diens. Stadler het as lid van die destydse 31 Bataljon se verkenningsvleuel vir drie jaar verskeie verkenningoperasies op vyandelike basisse uitgevoer. Daarna het hy Spesiale Magte-keuring gedoen met die uitsluitlike doel om by die spesialisverkenningspanne, oftewel Kleinspanne, aan te sluit. Vir vyf jaar het hy talle hoogs gespesialiseerde strategiese operasies diep agter vyandelike linies uitgevoer. Na sy operasionele loopbaan het hy verskeie bevel- en stafposte in Spesiale Magte beklee en uiteindelik militêre attaché in Saoedi-Arabië geword.

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