SA Intel School NS Intake Arrival, Inspection, Training and Bn Parade

[@bernaquerido1492]

My late husband David Querido was a 1986 intake. He was extremely proud of his insignia, his training and his country. Not sure what company he was in, but he loved every minute of it and spoke fondly of the ups and downs until his passing

[@edmundphillips7072]

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[@edmundphillips7072]

PHILLIPS up PwC Pap Q ppq

[@johnphillips1683]

I knew David from high school, Berna, and was really pleased to run into him when I arrived at Kimberley in January 1986 😊. So sorry to hear of his passing (think I learned of it on Facebook a while ago).

[@georgebrandon777]

I was part of the 1985 intake Alpha company Kpl Jonker and Lt Heyns, what a great time to have been a teenager with a weapon and trained to be a man!

[@SydNey-us9im]

Jan 1986 intake Bravo company - Cpl Bloem I will never forget you ..... Nobody will ever understand how tough that place made us when we were just kids.

[@dve804]

Same intake, same company, same Cpl. & I agree with you (except I was one of the older guys).

[@scottkvalsvig8199]

Oh Yes most definitely

[@johnphillips1683]

Yep, was in B8 as well; Cpl Blume and Lt Slabbert.

[@mikebacklund5044]

July 1979 intake at 6SAI and transferred to 11 Commando. When we arrived there, they'd all left for the Border. The base then became a training base for Intelligence and Burgersake. My sergeant was Charlie Laubsher who later became Sgt Maj of the Army. I remember RSM Blignaut and our Coy CO Maj Bat Nel. I cleared out in Jul 1981.

[@josevarela834]

I did basics at 3SAi Potch 79 then went to 11 Komando to start Intel. School started of as burgersake SMaj Blikkies was our RSM good old days. Maj. Van de Riet was our OC.

[@davidpretorius5733]

Jul 84 intake, Col Chris van Zyl was OC, brilliant officer, thanks Col van Zyl you were the best of the best.

[@JOATMOFA]

Also July '84 intake - Platoon leaders: cpl Katz & lt Beier.

[@gavinwright315]

Jul79 intake. Brings back memories. Upington basics then Intelligence school. Long time ago

[@lebeaulabuschagne9608]

Was there in 1987. Very hot year.

[@sovietred7371]

Cool seeing the place and people that turned my own Father into a Corporal, 84 July intake Diskobolos

[@JOATMOFA]

Who was your father?

[@dieterstalmann5717]

I was part of the 1980 intake. I can remember WO Blikkies very well. We always joked that he could shout an order in two tones at the same time.

[@MarxAlex]

When the trains still worked properly....and reliable electricity supply.

[@truth-Hurts375]

Yes...for only 4mil people out of 30mil....today we reap the fruit...

[@The_Comedian556]

@@truth-Hurts375 Yeah today its equally BAD for EVERYONE. Hardly reaping any fruit.

[@robertpoverello7288]

I was Diskobolos July 1984 intake - just before this video got shot. Good and bad memories but i grew up fast !!!

[@contrarian717]

Diskobolos 1990

[@JOATMOFA]

So was I - Jul '84 - cpl Katz & lt Beier

[@stevehoy9282]

Did you guys know a David Jones July 84 intake?

[@AngeliqueJacobsdementor619]

My dad is also in this video thank you so much for shareing 🌺

[@davidvanniekerk356]

Dankie JH du Plessis vir die video. My eerste oproepinstuksies was vir die Inligtingsskool (Potch). Een van Pa,1931-'84, se Vriende (Oom Louw vd Paarl) se kind is ook opgeroep in 1987. Hy't daardie jaar sy BCom voltooi en met sy Nederlandse -Familie-Paspoort Amerika toe "gevlug"... Dink net, EEN dekade na 1985 was alles in hierdie video 180* omgekeer...Selfs die NG Kerk het daardie jongmanne gehoon!

[@hennies9509]

Gehoon = Veragting, bespot, belaster en uitgelag, vir ons land Suid-Afrika.

[@sugengovender8083]

Good old days when there was discipline, integrity and honour

[@MrMalimaali]

And racism and bigotry...lets not forget that part.

[@neelgovender5932]

@@MrMalimaali yes indeed. Let's not forget that part..

[@egalf]

@@neelgovender5932 Actually those who lived the best life in that time were white women. The men were conscripted and had to go to war and policing duty for decades.

[@neelgovender5932]

@@egalf the point is it was all no good - I guess we all could have just been friends, that's all and maybe you guys could have been sun tanning on the beaches, with the white women?

[@veaccara]

@@MrMalimaali much less then than now

[@mariolombaard4461]

1988 Intake.Charlie 5 Kropduif bungalow.Lt Borman and Cpl de Bruyn.Respect those were the days.

[@JOATMOFA]

Do you now what happened to Lt Borman?

[@d.marques4700]

Most effective & better trained Army in the whole of South hemisphere!..

[@mampoetsinkosi8350]

Australia

[@poisonousbadge126]

@@mampoetsinkosi8350 South africa had the 3rd strongest military in the west way better than Australia

[@whenwe9168]

Not quite. Rhodesia had the RLI . Selous scouts SAS and RAR and all had seen battle

[@whenwe9168]

@Christiaan Hollander no you are wrong my dad served in the SAS it was a Rhodesian unit with at best a handful of south African soldiers

[@richardyoung8526]

The SADF was stronger than the Rhodesian Army because it was far larger. The Rhodesians were far more experienced in combat. The SAS was mainly Rhodesians, but had some foreigners including a few South Africans. The RLI did have a lot of South Africans. The RLI was a para-trained regular infantry regiment. The SAS and Selous Scouts were Special Forces. RMY

[@markthompson4859]

January '84 intake, Charlie Drie SAINTS forever!

[@HIOAZA1523]

Rest in peace the old South Africa

[@gertgilich3508]

Man! Whoever you are, i was the youngest officer on courese at Diskobolod! What a find. I'm german, so straight upstate. Bloody nasty expepiences. But the best time of my life. The rest is boring..djy verstaan!

[@FlyderFive]

Jan 1985 Intake at Diskobolos (Dit is hopeloos) Delta company for the whole year in Super bungalow. Only recognizes kpl Skerp Gert.

[@heiniekopp6733]

January 84 intake. Thanks for sharing. Brought tears to my eyes

[@gertgilich3508]

Was also '84 intake. Col van Zyl, RSM Blignaught. My Lt. Was Sutton and my Cpl. Katz. Lekker gekak daar..

[@JOATMOFA]

@@gertgilich3508 Cpl Katz was my cpl too - Jul '84 intake - He had parabat training too.

[@gertgilich3508]

Thanx man. Have we met? Your name rings familiar.

[@JOATMOFA]

@@gertgilich3508 I doubt it - JOATMOFA is an acronym - jack of all trades master of f@ck all

[@JOATMOFA]

@@gertgilich3508 U January '84 intake?

[@richardyoung8526]

Very impressive. I think that the OC of this unit took the training of this intake very seriously indeed. RMY

[@kempvdwesthuizen9245]

I was a medic at SAINTS from Nov '85 to early '87. Was there the day that the Samil overturned just before the main gate. One of the worst days of my life. Other than that, I enjoyed it to have been in such a prestigous unit. My favorite PF was S/Major Kevin Ridden. Spoke to him on Facebook a couple of years ago.

[@nobodyinparticular709]

To all the hated corporals.... Thank you 🙏

[@Starsky1413]

Ha ha The PTI’s were insane I still can’t believe the shit they made me do FFS 😅

[@kobuskloppers5375]

Ek was ook ñ inname by Danie Theron Krygskool. Goeie ou dae....basies en j'ls gedoen 😎

[@richardduplessis1090]

The best to learn is to play and enjoy it.

[@alettopperman2672]

Jul was / is / sal altyd die trots van ons land wees, soos ons dit geken het !!! Dink met heimwee terug aan dit wat was!!

[@franniepieterse5356]

Julie 1983 inname, Charlie 5. Lt Smit en Korporaal Tenkate. Komp Bev Lt FL Smith. RSM Adjudant Blignaut. Bevelvoerder Kol van Zyl.

[@TheSilmarallion]

Went to SA Int School 1989-1990 the school had moved to Potchefstroom

[@kevinbarlow-jones2378]

I remember, I was there in 1991

[@mervynpenwarden845]

@@kevinbarlow-jones2378 With me

[@thepracticepadchannel]

I was there 91 as well

[@johan2021]

I was requited from Artillary School Potch, for Danie Theron Krygskool in 1981. After finishing "Inligting course" then off to Siffdrif (Smutsdrift) then to Jam Pomp stasie (Ammo depo at Jn Kemp Dorp) and then off to Homelands and spend 1982 in Giyani ( Kremetart) I still have my flashes and my Jakkals kop

[@josevarela834]

I was there in 79, 1980 in Venda Tohoyandou

[@robert-trading-as-Bob69]

Those early days in the Mag where you didn't have a clue, just got pushed from one bewildering happening to the other. The blankets on the tables... MAGS NOMMER! Every 5 minutes: 8662_ _ _ _BG... I'll never forget that number. One second you were so lonely, the next second there were too many people around you. And first phase Basics hadn't even started yet.

[@reniererasmus4082]

82 intake..rest of the time..102 BN... Kaokoland Opuwa.. Good memories..

[@Popeye64]

Ek het ingeklaar Julie 82 net toe dit Inligtingskool geword het. My oproepinstruksies was nog 11 Kommando Infanterie. Lekker koud daar in die winter. Was Alpha Komp Pel 2.

[@maartenkruger3063]

Ek het saam met jou ingeklaar.

[@MariusJacobs]

Was there in 89.

[@RTBZA]

Januarie 1986 inname. Bravo Kompanie, Peloton 12

[@nickharmse1480]

Was eendag daar 79 lank, lank gelede, ysters in daar gemaak!

[@dieontwerper8083]

17:25 this roofie looks exactly like Gary Teichmann, that played rugby for the Boks and Natal in the early nineties!

[@johanvermeulen7787]

I also though so!!

[@soidog659]

I also thought so. I am sure it was Gary.

[@craigeastmure7320]

It could be him. He went to varsity from 87 to 91. Making him 18 in matric in 85.

[@tomgeldart4266]

Yes that is Gary Teichmann.

[@grantcombrink9595]

yes that is Gary.Together we played rugby for SAINTS. Weekends were rugby passes much to annoyance of the othr troops.In his book he mentions his SAINTS days.

[@albertvanwyk9983]

We did it for women like you , ain't many left ! Stompie

[@danielfourie7204]

Looking at this tears in my eyes where the time machine!

[@waynerautenbach8020]

Was daar , een van die ergste basiese opleidings wat daar kan wees, veral as jy quarry toe gegaan het of devils playground toe, taai tye maar lekker gewees

[@Popeye64]

Ek stem saam Wayne. Dit is die rede waarom die Vloot en Lugmag ouens by ons JL's gedoen het. Was skuins duskant vermoor word.

[@markwillies4330]

I was there in 87/88 and getting flashbacks.i was in Foxtrot Co in the visblikke outside the mess.Foxtrot were all the communists from Durban.Then Law Officers course and up to SWA for 18 months. An experience I wouldnt want to repeat but did learn some valuable lessons despite the shit.

[@scottkvalsvig8199]

Hello Mark I Remember you, we were in Corporal Lappies Plt 5 Foxtrot

[@Hunter1968]

Interestingly, a Young Gary Teichmann appears at 7;24 in this video. I wonder if he aspired to be captain of the Springbok Rugby team at this stage of his life? I was in the January 1987 intake. Foxtrot 2 with Cpl. van den Berg. Although training was tough and I would not want to go through it again. I really enjoyed my time in the SA Army. I wouldn't change my experiences there for anything.

[@michaeljohnson7282]

1986 intake geez I wonder what's happened to all that land.

[@Popeye64]

It's still there. Only occupied by a different battalion. Intelligence moved to Nelspruit. Did my camps in Kangwane

[@michaeljohnson7282]

Yes I heard they moved Frans Sadly in my first year 6 of my alpha company comrades were killed in the samil accident.

[@Popeye64]

@@michaeljohnson7282 . Sorry to hear. Was that the one that rolled on the turn just before you get to the stopsign at the main gates

[@waynerautenbach8020]

Yeah Frans, thats the one that rolled just as it crossed over the cattle grid.

[@Bennevisie]

Guy at 17:26 looks like Gary Teichmann...

[@moerasmoeras1069]

Ek was ook deel van die 1986 inname. Was in daai Samil wat gerol het.

[@LIVETRACK24]

Het my friend Jaques verloor in daai Samil..was steeds goeie tye in die rotte.

[@bernaquerido1492]

Dark ken julle my oorlede man (David Querido) - hy het een van sy vriende in die samelongeluk verloor

[@kempvdwesthuizen9245]

Ek was 'n medic by SAINTS toe daai Samil gerol het. Baie slegte dag gewees

[@dawidvandyk296]

Jan 83 Callie 3 tot Jullie 83 ....... Liberty life en Mury hill..... PRETORIA.

[@Sbusisodamore]

Please bring back the lntel School.

[@emiledevilliers3372]

Daar het ek klippe gekou 1987.Hard maar lekker.

[@emiledevilliers3372]

Charlie pel 5 korp Page. Wie sal vir Grayse (spelling?) vergeet?en Kol vander Riet Goeie ou dae

[@bootsandall3612]

Delta pel 2 korporaal Watson en toe rotte by korporaal Appelgryn.

[@waynerautenbach8020]

Ek onthou vir Appels ja, was in Alpha komanjie peleton 1 G1K1 , Korporaal Louw, seker die peraatste donner wat ek in my lewe nog ontmoet het.

[@emiledevilliers3372]

Nog name... RSM? 87. Onthou nog die doedelsak met off. perade inoefening.

[@ismailwayne4392]

😇

[@johnpeiser4532]

Jan 85 intake A company Platoon 5 ,

[@sarelbornman8363]

Was 86 jan inname Alpha komp met kpls Jonker Potgieter enBasson Vasbyt was taai 210 km in 3,5 dae by modderivier Rang gekry by Magersfontein Trots op Inligtingskool in daardie tye

[@The_Comedian556]

Even the POGs were fit in the SADF

[@hennies9509]

The blue berets beat the parabats as the fittest unit the one year. It was in the 80s, and I always wondered how they were treated when they got back to Tempe by their training staff, poor guys.

[@albertvanwyk9983]

3SAI Majoor Rocha ex Zim yster van ysters Respek ! Stompie !

[@eugenelesar8573]

Ek was daar Jan 85 B9

[@albertvandeventer3939]

Ek(Albert van Deventer) was ook 85 in C by kooperaal Snyman

[@fireball6302]

Was deel van die 1986 inname

[@Popeye64]

Hel ek was in 84 klaar. Was al getroud met een kind toe jy ingaan. Eerste kamp was 2 maande op Swaziland grens 87

[@fireball6302]

@@Popeye64 Was getroud toe ek aangemeld het vir diens

[@Popeye64]

Toe was ek reeds getroud en het een kind gehad. Lol. My eerste kamp gedoen in 87.

[@danielfourie7204]

Proper army man legit !

[@jackbell636]

Like to meet kpl Kruger again

[@gertgilich3508]

Sorry, i have a moment here. Lost a lot of friends. Not easy! 1 SA Intelligence Corps.

[@reniererasmus4082]

Good memories..

[@jannieriekert2533]

Was jul 80 iname jl ,s en vasbyt daar gedoen

[@Starsky1413]

Looks like fun but it was PURE hell Was a savage time Run all day and March in the rain at night I regret not doing better in hindsight but as an 18 year old I just didn’t get it Did my 2 years and did patrols along the Ruacana river. I still have no idea what the point was. Probably I’ll never know. It was chaos….senseless I really didn’t like it at all. I still climb under my bed if there’s loud bangs in my area. 🤷

[@colinm2056]

14:01 lt Mario De Bruin?

[@hennies9509]

I wonder how many Rooibalkies are there that did not deserve it with me in the skietgat with a pen and stickers, lol!!! I gave all the guys the were not the strongest good marks on the shooting range. Not all from my skietgat, but I moved around from A to C, etc.

[@JOATMOFA]

Wat het van kpl "Huffel" Viljoen geword - sy vrou was mos n PF offisier daar?

[@davidosborne4552]

Sniffel Tiffies :-)

[@inapotgieter8640]

Jong kinders wat uitgelewer is aan 'n sogenaamde vyand! Wrede herinneringe.

[@frikkiesmit327]

Wel daar was aanvalle tog. Kyk selfs binnelands die bomme in pretoria destyds. Op die grens ons pa's party by dood omgedraai ander was nie so gelukkig nie. Niemand het die reg om na hul vingers te wys nie. Hul was verplig deur wet om diensplig te doen en sou hul wyer dan dit tronk toe. Tensy hul spesiale vrystelling gehad het. Hul het nie gevra daarvoor nie.net soos niemand gevra het vir covid vandag nie. Ook het niemand gevra vir ñ korrupte sa regering en land waar mens gehaat word deur snot neuse wat nie eers naby apartheidstyd perk se einde gebore was nie. Hul is die kamstige born free generasies. Die land se mense is nie een vry nie ongeag ras en geslag. Almal word geroof, of gehijcak of gemoor. Die kettievlag land. Maar nou ja. Dankie vir elke persoon wat hul diensplig gedoen het, hul geliefdes by huise gelaat het.wat party hul lewens verloor het. En waar baie wel sekerlik die mederheid nie geweet het of hul sal terugkom huistoe nie. En baie van hul lei nog steeds aan ptsd.

[@marksparkykilian]

Jan 1985 C company. Lt Terreblanche but can’t remember my corporal’s name. Does anyone remember?

[@jancarollisen2444]

I was also there but I don't see any coureld soldiers there we also fight and my badies also die so what about Sakk

[@ash7182]

Genuine question. I spent several years in SA as a child in the 1970s. We lived in the Cape. I only every heard English spoken, and at school everything was in English. I notice in most documentaries about the SADF the main language is Afrikaans. What would happen if you turned up for your National Service unable to speak Afrikaans?

[@eastafrica1020]

I was in a unit where 90% were English speaking. That's where I learned to speak English.

[@JOATMOFA]

Believe you me, even those that did NOT understand Afrikaans at all, learned very quickly. There was a chap from Kenya in our Company - very much soldier material (fit & intelligent) - had never even heard of the Afrikaans language before - he passed his basics with flying colours & took the JLs course - he finished his 2 years as a 2Lt, VERY fluent in Afrikaans!

[@laraconnock9525]

You would learn... VERY QUICKLY!

[@paulsinclair7353]

As a soutie I learned super quick, though I still spoke English back (mostly) apart from Ja, nee Corporal etc, it was kind of each side understood eachother's language.

[@markwinter7511]

Does anyone remember that red headed pf corporal called "halfmens"

[@eugenelesar8573]

The only corporal i can think of is Knuppe

[@wynandackermann2519]

Yip, was 'n korperaal gewees in echo kompanie begin' 87. Het sy bynaam gestand gedoen.

[@somequestions8375]

Ja, onthou hom goed - ek was '87 in Alpha 1 met Kpl Louw, en "halfmens" was sy pel

[@markwillies4330]

Fortunately I was in Foxtrot with Orpen Saunders and van Rensburg? All pricks but amateurs compared to halfmens. A friend Delbrooke-Jones was in Alpha under him I dont know he survived basics with halfmens

[@JOATMOFA]

Was that not the big fellow with a bouldering voice : Kpl "Huffel" Viljoen? Viljoen's wife was a PF officer, I think.

[@frikkiesmit327]

Was nog regte soldate daai

[@hoochone3225]

Lekker ou Bravo 8!!! Chunkie jou bl*ksem😆😃

[@chrisvermeulen2270]

Die"goeie"dae

[@volodymyrrhapon5666]

2.49 Wool.😀

[@cheyenneasiafoxe292]

SADF was a serious bunch of Boers and were a force to be reckoned with ...sad it was in a country of Apartheid....

[@svarogeuropeidentity4355]

I want to serve in such an army, not in this army today that hates its own homeland, tradition, culture and history, in a multicultural army, in a war I would fear these comrades (often sleepers from terrorist organisations) more than the enemy. I mean today the army even has transgender people, LGBT people, in a war they would all flee!

[@frikkiesmit327]

Join the french legionares. They are strict and strong army.

[@Hunter1968]

sorry 17:24

[@miguelnieto83]

Ja no impressed with the Army Intel boys (Always thought they were a bunch of slapgats) almost as skerp as Infantry (4/8 SAI) but not quite!!??😂

[@Intothelight1981]

Why the kak music 🤔

[@cheyenneasiafoxe292]

Sad but this school also produced Eugene DeCock and many Vlakplass killers...sad but only a great man like Nelson Mandela used the truth and reconciliation commission to heal his country after ending Apartheid. But the SADF was a mighty figting and intelligence unit...

[@josevarela834]

Eugene de kok was in the police pa.

[@mzwaneleshange6671]

Everything about this period I HATE!!!!!

[@frikkiesmit327]

When where you born?

[@TheKiefmike]

#shem

[@AnnaAis-w7c]

Wasting of resources because of people's coubtry

[@bobby3677]

Where is black people

[@itzmebuster5392]

?

[@svarogeuropeidentity4355]

They are transforming South Africa into 💩hole country today, just like Zimbabwe has become, Zimbabwe are surviving from UN Food Program, if you kick the pilot out the plane, but you are not a pilot yourself those are the results, the country has become part of the third world.

[@truth-Hurts375]

@@svarogeuropeidentity4355 and you are proud to be part of it ....

[@frikkiesmit327]

@@svarogeuropeidentity4355 well said

[@frikkiesmit327]

Bobby the black people were in other units. The bushman helped with tracking , they were also trained and actually worked well togeheter with the others. If i remeber correctly some where in 32 buffalo .

[@Umgqilazi_Wazo]

The shit regime that fell👏

[@robertpoverello7288]

Didnt fall - kicked your stupid arse for years and then handed everything over on a plate to your lot and you fucked up 200 years of progress in less than 20 years.

[@3l822]

@@robertpoverello7288 nigaaaaaaaaaaa

[@Bennevisie]

Go bang your drum elsewhere you wash-out garbage wannabe musician.

[@dissdad8744]

@@robertpoverello7288 You call a model that forced 90 percent of the South African population to rot in poverty with no rights and victimised by racists who were allowed to commit hate crimes against them with impunity "progress"? You seem to have a very different definition of progress from everyone else in the civilised world!

[@mervynpenwarden845]

@@dissdad8744 Sir I see your pain but remember the persons depicted in this video did not defend White South Africa, they defended South Africa. Many of them did not agree with the policies but were dedicated to safeguard a land they called home. Just for the record many Black South Africans also served in the SADF (prior 1994) out of their own free will where White South Africans were legally compelled to complete National Service.

[@BhekisisaMatsebula]

pink people in our land...damn

[@TheKiefmike]

#shem