Unit Name: | Regiment Erongo |
Dates: | 1980 |
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Branch: | , |
Type: | Motorised Infantry |
Command Structure: | South West African Territorial Force |
Motto: | Usque Ad Finem “To the very end” |
Disbanded: | 199091 |
Commander1 Label: | Last Commanding Officer |
Commander3 Label: | Last RSM |
Identification Symbol Label: | Part of the South West African Territorial Force |
Identification Symbol 2 Label: | SWATF Regiment Erongo beret badge |
Regiment Erongo was a quick-reaction unit of the South West African Territorial Force.[1]
Regiment Erongo was formed in January 1980 as 912 Battalion and part of 91 Brigade of the South West Africa Territory Force.[2] 91 SWA Brigade was a Reaction Force with its base at Windhoek, in sector 40. It acted as a mobile reserve to support SWATF operations in Sectors 20 in northern Namibia and was modelled on the SADF motorised brigade.
912 Battalion was part of 91 Brigade
2 SWA Specialist Unit was formed in 1987 out of the parachute company of Regiment Erongo.
Regiment Erongo was disbanded upon the independence of Namibia in 1990-91.
05 Mar 1980: 72208721BT Rifleman Johannes Jacobus Maass from Regiment Erongo (912 Bn) was Killed in Action during a contact with PLAN insurgents in Northern Owamboland. He was 24.
23 Mar 1980: 71260731BT Corporal Renier Stephanus van Zyl from Regiment Erongo (912 Bn) SWATF was Killed in Action during a contact with SWAPO/PLAN insurgents in Northern Owamboland. He was 24.