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SA Army Support Formation HQ [1] [2] Military Bases Depots Units Reserve Force Units ASB Bloemfontein DOD Mobilisation Centre Bloemfontein SA Army Technical Service Training 4 Maintenance Unit Joint Support Base Garrison DOD Main Ordnance Depot DOD Technical Service Unit 11 Maintenance Unit ASB Eastern Cape: DOD Main Ordnance Sub Depot
The Joint Support Base in Wonderboom, Pretoria houses the School of Signals, 1 Signal Regiment, 2 Signal Regiment, 3 Electronic Workshop, 4 Signal Regiment and 5 Signal Regiment. Technical Base Complex Centurion is home to the Technical Service Training Centre, the Army Engineer Formation and a general support base.
Orange Free State Command was a command of the South African Army, active from c. 1933 to c. 1999. Its headquarters was at Bloemfontein, seemingly for a period at the Tempe airfield, later to become the Tempe Military Base.
1 Special Service Battalion (usually abbreviated to 1SSB) is an armoured regiment of the South African Army and only one of two such in its regular force. The Regiment is based at Tempe near Bloemfontein. It was previously known in Afrikaans as 1 Spesiale Diens Bataljon (1 SDB).
1 SSB in Bloemfontein as B Company; 4 Field Regiment in Potchefstroom as C Company; and a supply & transport company, an attempt at all arms training. UDF era 1 SAI companies c. 1950s. The unit was reconstituted as 1 SA Infantry Battalion in November 1967 and moved to its current base at Tempe near Bloemfontein, in November 1973. [1]
Disbanded military units and formations in Bloemfontein (7 P) Pages in category "Military units and formations in Bloemfontein" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
This unit supplies the only full-time tank force to the SA Army. [3] Lt Col William Nondala, the second CO, was the first black commanding officer appointed in the country's Armoured Corps. There were 724 available posts, but only 335 were staffed and 389 vacant in 2005. The highest shortage level (75%) was experienced at the level of trooper. [4]
44 Parachute Regiment is the South African Army's chief airborne infantry unit. It was created in 2000 by redesignating 44 Parachute Brigade, and is based at the Tempe military base near Bloemfontein.