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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 Grahamstown army base houses the 6 South African Infantry Battalion (Air Assault) and the First City Regiment (Air Assault). Gqeberha is home to Prince Alfred's Guard (Air Assault). The Mthatha army base is home to the 14 South African Infantry Battalion (Motorised Infantry). Greenacres is home to the Regiment Piet Retief (Light Infantry).
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.
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]
The unit's structure is a ‘type 38 regiment’, with 2 tanks at regimental headquarters and 12 tanks each in the three operational squadrons. There are also support squadrons and tank transport squadrons. Olifants parked at 1 Tank Regiment, Tempe
The idea of instituting a Museum and Research Library for the South African Armoured Corps [3] started as early as 1994 and was officially approved by the Chief of the SA Army on 12 October 1995. Approval for the use of a historical building located in the lines of the School of Armour, Tempe was granted in April 1995.
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 .