[OB1]OLIFANT BRIGADE SA

Badge of Courage and Valor

When looking at the shoulder flash of 61 Mechanized Battalion Group it inadvertently engenders a sense of roused excitement and heightened pride. This is true to the respective former members who served this proud unit loyally during its period of operational service. It is equally true to the current members of the Veterans Association of 61 Mechanized Battalion Group. The active years lasted close on 27 years – from the inception of the unit in 1979 until its disbandment in 2005. The badge of “61” struck both fear and created respect in the hearts and minds of its former enemies.

61 Mechanized Battalion Group was one of the South African units commended for its professionalism and military prowess by the Cubans for battles fought extremely successfully in Angola. This said announcement by a Cuban delegation during the peace negotiations of the Angolan War in 1989.

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