Main picture: In the Army in 3SAI Battalion during 1971 in Oudshoorn
Prologue
The decrepit Army Bedford truck noisily made its way into the unknown with its cargo of twenty troops aboard. With its back flap also tied down, its cargo was cocooned within its own world.
The reason for our for these measures was that our platoon was going to be the enemy – a band of terrorists – for a large scale Army Exercise somewhere in South Africa.
The destination was classified but there were two dead give-aways: we were heading west all the time & we had a map of our destination: Bloubergstrand.