Originally Posted by TigerOC (Post 6241158)

To shiftdelete and 1066; off topic but I personally would like to thank you both for the fine job you did keeping us safe. Next to the "supers" you were the best COIN operatives the World has ever seen which is something to be very proud of and I salute you both with great humility. In the final year of the war I had interaction with a new black Lt who was in the Copper Queen area with some of Sithole's clowns. I asked him what he would like to achieve. He said he was a career soldier, as his father had been, but he would forgo his commission just to be a troopie in the RLI. He said they were the very best troops he had ever seen.

We had quite a connection with 1 RLI. A great friend in Gatooma was Tony Matkovich and his son Roy had been OC and his other son was the local magistrate. 1 RLI had the freedom of Gatooma. I was a Rotarian and we had an annual camp in the area for disadvantaged children every year and a stick would give up their R&R to come to the camp and help the kids. They were great guys.

Originally Posted by Daxk (Post 6241324)

off topic too but I have contact with David Scales as well as his father Peter