Unit Name: | Regiment Skoonspruit |
Dates: | 19661999 |
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Branch: | |
Type: | Infantry |
Role: | Motorised Infantry |
Size: | One Battalion |
Command Structure: | South African Infantry Corps Army Conventional Reserve |
Garrison: | Orkney, North West Province |
Motto: | Robore et Vigilantia (Strength and vigilance) |
Disbanded: | July 1999[1] |
Commander1: | Commandant Kruger |
Commander1 Label: | First OC |
Regiment Skoonspruit was a motorised infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation. As a reserve unit, it had a status roughly equivalent to that of a present-day British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.
This Regiment was formed in 1966.
The regiment was deployed to the Kaokoveld in 1981 seeing action against SWAPO/PLAN insurgents. A member was killed by an enemy rifle grenade.[2]
The unit was disbanded in 1999.