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NaijaPikinGidi: [size=13pt]Bulletproof vests worn 'incorrectly' in CAR[/size]
2013-07-19 09:14

Johannesburg - The incorrect use of bulletproof vests during the Battle of Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR) in March was probably why 15 South African soldiers were killed, Beeld reported on Friday.

Colonel Renier "Doibi" Coetzee, a senior South African Special Forces officer, made this statement on behalf of his superiors at a press conference in Pretoria earlier this week.

Coetzee said soldiers who had worn their jackets correctly withstood several bullets and survived the ordeal.

He said that after the 23 March battle it had emerged that some of the South African troops had not worn their jackets in the prescribed way.

"Some took out the bulletproofing plates, while others just wore breast plates. This left their backs unprotected."

Coetzee said the army was currently evaluating both instructions for wearing the jackets, and the quality of items being issued to soldiers.

"It is true that our jackets are a bit old, and that the technology is a bit outdated... but there's nothing wrong with them."

Wearing the jackets was optional, and especially when it was hot, solders tended to remove the plates.

"American and British soldiers in Afghanistan eat and sleep with their jackets on, and they would not dare move from camp without them. This is one of the things that after the current evaluation will probably become mandatory for our soldiers," he said.

Source: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Bulletproof-vests-worn-incorrectly-in-CAR-20130719
- SAPA


33% brain capacity everywhere you go with South Africans. Inexperienced bunch that want to claim superiority in Africa just by modelling weapons and gear? This story is deep!! Simple and correct use of bulletproof vests is what SA brains cannot comprehend? It tells a lot about the same bunch we have on this thread.

whether they accept it or not, SANDF is only good for the camera. incompetent bunch of losers

Thiza: Just to provide insight into the whole scenarion and there evolvement thereof. First the intervention Brigade as it is now know its a SADC Initiative not UN MONUSCO Peace keeping Force. It was formed after the failure of the UN to intervene, leaders of 11 African countries decided on a new way forward and on 24 February 2013, signed a Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC – an agreement designed to bring peace to Eastern DRC. With commitment from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to become more involved, the agreement included the deployment of a brigade strength Neutral Intervention Force (NIF) of approximately 3 500 soldiers, authorised to conduct aggressive peacekeeping operations to protect civilians under imminent threat and to neutralise armed groups involved in destabilising the region (specifically M23).

The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) was badly shaken by the ease with which Goma had fallen to M23. The credibility of MONUSCO and indeed its perceived will to implement one of its prime tasks – the protection of civilians under imminent threat, was seriously being questioned. To make matters worse, the NIF was being touted as a force that would do what MONUSCO, with 17 000 troops, was unable to do. In reality, however, the NIF was a concept that had little chance of success due to prohibitive cost, estimated at USD $100 million for its first year of operation, with the DRC offering to pay USD $10 million. The complexity of operating without full UN support was also a problem, despite South Africa’s commitment to support the mission with helicopters and transport aircraft, specialised support staff and a forward operational support base to be established at Entebbe, Uganda.

The SADC planning element scrambled to generate the NIF’s operational components from the SADC Standby Force pledges from member states, while it was left to each Troop Contributing Country to work out how they were going to self-fund this deployment.

This willingness of the African countries concerned to go it alone further shook the UN and galvanised it into action, with the DPKO proposing the deployment of a UN intervention brigade, utilising SADC troop components that would have deployed under the NIF. It must have been with a collective sigh of relief that the 11 African heads of state, supported by SADC and the African Union (AU), agreed to this change of direction. South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi would be the primary Troop Contributing Countries for this Intervention Brigade of 3 069 soldiers, authorised in terms of UN Security Council resolution 2098 of 1 April 2013, with the responsibility for ‘neutralizing armed groups …. contributing to reducing the threat posed by armed groups to state authority and civilian security in Eastern DRC and to make space for stabilization activities’.

The Intervention Brigade will have extra teeth in the form of artillery support and special forces, who together with unarmed drones (remotely piloted aircraft) with special day and night observation equipment, will provide situational awareness – the intelligence and information picture which enables the conduct of high impact, intelligence driven and targeted operations to deal with M23 and the other illegal armed groups in the region, which number over 33 at this stage.

With the most aggressive mandate ever given to a peacekeeping mission, much hype has been generated about the expected success and influence of the Intervention Brigade. After more than 10 years of peacekeeping deployment experience in Eastern DRC, the SANDF contingent will form a core component of the Intervention Brigade and much will be expected of it.
Commander of the brigade, General James Mwakibolwa is from Tanzania. SOUTH AFRICA IS NOT A POWER MONGER

VIVA SADC ATLEAST YOU DID NOT WAIT FOR FRANCE TO HELP LIKE IN MALI BEFORE TAKING ACTION!!!

after all this blabbing, you were not seen as competent to command the brigade while Nigeria commanded AFISMA before UN came in. trust me, if the commander of the UN mission was left for ECOWAS to decide, Nigeria will be leading it.

you are a big joke. so after waiting for decades when the UN have finished milking DRC, you sent your incompetent soldiers to protect your president's family business since SANDF is now a dispensable group. what a joke

Msauza: We are tired of those fake computerised pictures from attention seeking racists. Many of those videos were discussed in SA that they infact never real and that pictures of white people generally injured across the world are staged as if they actually happened in SA. Many of those pictures were linked to be from Russia in chechnya and neighbouring countries.

keep living in denial. f.oolish people. the world already knows you.
mandela's death will open a worst chapter for an already racially divided south africa.

Thiza: @AGAUGUST...Mark Shuttleworth gained worldwide fame on 25 April 2002 as the second self-funded space tourist and the first-ever South African in space.Flying through Space Adventures, he launched aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission as a spaceflight participant, paying approximately US$ 20 million for the voyage. Two days later, the Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station, where he spent eight days participating in experiments related to AIDS and genome research. On 5 May 2002, he returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-33. In order to participate in the flight, Shuttleworth had to undergo one year of training and preparation, including seven months spent in Star City, Russia.

you should be ashamed to post this trash.. the guy saw how f.oolish and hopeless your country is and paid 20 million to take part in another country's project. isn't that a shameful thing?

Msauza: This is really crazy! How can South Africans envy foreigners who are getting paid R20 a day and still accuse them of taking their jobs? What you do not understand is that these foreigners are being exploited for cheap labour in jobs that could have paid fairly well for South Africans who are protected by labour laws. Most of these foreigners are illiterate and some never even gone to school at all.

Meanwhile, even after the death of Nelson Mandela will still progress as a rainbow nation and we have many icons who have passed before him in Chris Hani, Joe Slovo, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu and many more.

am not just saying, it's a fact the world knows. you kill foreigners out of envy cos your people are lazy and foreigners are the ones growing your economy.

what mandela stands for unifies snot africa. which is different from your other so called unknown dead and rotten icons.
Mandel's death will open a new chapter the world will know snot africa for. "racially divided" and i'll pray for you then.

zetdee: Bwahahaha
Nigeria is and has always been a failed State.

a failed state that it's economy will overtake yours in no time? keep fooling yourself

zetdee: My friend, tribal & religious violence are a daily reality in Nigeria, we know Nigeria expelled millions of immigrants in the past, the rest of you post is pure rubbish.

and can you please differentiate between tribal violence and racial violence, highest murder rate? you are empty bruv

snot africans should be ashamed to claime to be so developed and behave like cannibals and think like bush people. rubbish

we expelled trouble makers not hard workers. but south africasns will rather kill hard workers out of envy. filthy country

zetdee: Bwahahahahaha,
No wonder the continent in such a mess, specifically the countries near Nigeria.

the level of ignorance in snot africa is enough to declare a state of emergency on your youths' brains.

west africa is in a mess because france won't let go of it's colonies and fears Nigeria is giving them a voice to reject modern day colonialism. what do they teach in those schools in SA for Christ sake

zetdee: Just look at this one, they can't even run their own country, but want to talk about running the continent, smh.

it's very simple. The facts are there for you to see. Google is your friend.

Kindly post here the achievements of south africa in becoming a continental leader while i give you Nigeria's. Then we'll know

zetdee: And if they not hating on other countries, they're bickering amongst themselves. Almost every thread turns into an igbo vs yoruba vs hausa, no wonder that country is in such a mess.

for a country that doesn't just hate but kills african migrants just cause they are intelligent than you, taking your jobs, and making a living while your lazy a*s complain all day.

A country that is racially divided that your ANC leaders still sing the "kill the boer songs," you lack the moral justification to judge Nigeria.

I know what is still keeping that country is sick Mandela and when he dies... I'll remember to pray for south africa

CraigB: It's such a shame, because the common denominator is always Naai-geria. It's Naai-geria vs Ghana. Naai-geria vs the US. Naai-geria vs Kenya. Naai-geria va SA. Naai-geria vs Naai-gerian and so on.

Whatever happened here?

Even at a diplomatic level, Naai-geria always has these diplomatic rows with nations.

If it's not the UK visa bond issue, it's the Kenyan deportation issue. If it's not that, it's something else.

yeah.. We are not cowards like you. We stand to challenge any country that tries to take us for granted. Go and find out how UK was so quick to deny the visa bond issue and claim it was just a thought.

South africa only makes noise while Nigeria acts and threatens. Why do you think anything your government says is not taken seriously? libya, Ivory coast, your government even kept mute when it was revealed you were spied on.

Cowards only complain of the strong being too aggresive. And snot africa is a nation of cowards.

CraigB: Hang on Slow down. Please explain the withdrawal in Mali. What's that about responsibility?

if your peanut brain cannot comprehend what has been explained so far, your parrot mouth can continue ranting till you get tired.

We will not let our troops and logistics be commanded by a general we trained. Simple

Nigeria is not a cowarly country like south africa. Just because we decided to repect our continental body's resolution not to arrest Bashir than UN that is riddled with hypocrisy, they are talking rubbish.

How can south africa become an african power house if it fears western respects western policies than AU.
South africa is not fit to be a leader and doesn't understand anything about africa.

Even if you build a nuclear bomb, you'll keep walking behind us while we run the continent.

andrewza: you said the UN betrayed you but France said the commander will be Nigerian not the UN.

France said that when it was AFISMA. Ecowas had the say when it was AFISMA, not UN. and france was not happy Nigeria would be leading the mission. Nigeria already had special forces hunting shekau in Mali before France went in. they used the opportunity when UN took over to sideline Nigeria. you must have known by now that Nigeria and France are in strong competition to rule west africa.

andrewza: What? since when is france the UN

wow!! south africans don't know sh*t

i never said france is the UN, i said france has a lot of influence in the UN. that's why they are among the 5 nations ( US, France, Britain, Russia,China)that continue to hold veto power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_and_the_United_Nations

Mike..ZA:
. And where your brave "Field Marshal GEJ"?,yeah he was somewhere in a bunker in Lagos.

dullard.. Nigeria's capital is Abuja.
and you must be so ignorant to know that Nigeria never had good relationship with Ghadafi. so what did you expect. that we play hypocrite? no way. we are not SA

Mike..ZA:
NOPE,A Rwandan is leading the Africans in Mali.

that's why we are pulling out. UN betrayed us.

Mike..ZA:
Please!! next time when you make this claim don't give us a link. Post pictures of this "50 dead SA parabats" whom died in combat.

and do me a favor by posting pictures of the 800 rebels your fleeing soldiers counted and took photos of. your guys are talented o... snapping and counting while running.

CraigB: Wrong picture. So what?

it means you are a liar and should not be taken seriously.

Nigeria is not interested in peacekeeping while there's no peace to keep. we went there to fight.
you must be ignorant of what is going on between Nigeria, france and UN.

A Nigerian commander was supposed to lead the UN mission but france that have always been wary of our influence in the region used it's influence in the UN to sideline Nigeria. and the worst part was that they appointed a Rwandan general and we will not subject our troops and logistics under a novice in a dangerous place like Mali.

Nigeria has more than enough troops to face security challenges at home and still invade SA. the west will use this propaganda to compel us to stay like they used their media to make us hand Bashir over but we don't care what they say, we will withdraw and if they want to arrest Bashir they should invade Sudan.

Nigerians started protesting that our troops be withdrawn from the moment UN made that s.tupid decision. the government listened to the people unlike yours that will rather use your military to guard his family investments abroad.

andrewza: I have posted sources were civilians who witnessed the battle and Seleka fights who fought in the battle confirmed the info

yeah right... by an SA source. i can also show you a link where the same civilians claim they saw more than 50 SADF scattered everywhere.

Msauza: Am I also allowed to join Beegeagle's blog?

the blog is for mature and enlightened people, and you lack both qualities.

Msauza: Shame!!! Your efforts could not work for you. CUBA came thousands of miles to assume your position that you could have played by collaborating with Angolan and guerrillas to stop the wrath of apartheid forces from colonising the region, while your strong men with big muscles where sitting on their budds. Black people were suffering oppression bitterly at the hands of Whites in SA under your noses, but here you are boasting about your invention which was never even physical. You chickened out when ANC asked you to send troops to Mozambique to provide defence to their headquarters but instead ANC shifted further to Lusaka because of consistent attacks from apartheid forces who invaded Mozambique like a playground. You have just only embarrassed yourselves because even your military chiefs were scared of SA to their throats and all that they could do was to provide cheap material support.

that article musst have hit you very hard. try to take some aspirin ok.

Msauza: Our mission in CAR was to establish professional military and had nothing to do with war. With only just a steak of our troops we have managed to kill hundreds of them and suffered only 13 casualties. No army in the world can achieve that without a heavy fire because French troops who were in charge of the Airport never allowed us to deploy heavy fire since 2007 because our mission was to train CAR troops.

keep lying to yourself... losers.

did you enjoy the article i posted? hope it didn't give you goose bumps?

this is the part i enjoyed reading most:

Nigeria has been in the vanguard of African support for the liberation of southern Africa and defense of the frontline states. It was one of the most consistent and generous providers of political, financial, and material assistance to the Namibian liberation movement, the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), including substantial support to help organize pre- independence elections. Nigeria donated several million dollars' worth of military and financial aid to the African National Congress in its struggle against South Africa's apartheid regime. Nigeria also sent military equipment to Mozambique, which was attempting to suppress South African-backed Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (Renamo) guerrillas.

and the article was written before Liberia, SL, ivory coast and Bissau crisis.
now provide one for south africa's records

Msauza: The Griffins were never there during the first attack.

that was your number one tactical failure. you sent 200 men including special force to a far away country, knowing fully well they will engage the enemy eventually and you had no plan for air support.

number two failure was that after losing so much men, you finally scrambled you jets and helicopters only to pull back after you found out it wasn't gonna be a walk in the park.

i see that the two universities you attended haven't helped develop your brain. maybe you need to attend a third one.

Msauza: Since when did Nigeria ever project itself as a military power in Africa?

here's your answer http://www.mongabay.com/history/nigeria/nigeria-african_and_regional_issues.html

Msauza: SA has been all over Africa without any fear.

we know your ships have sailed round africa but where have your military been tested and left as winners? CAR was your test and you failed woefully.

Msauza: The Griffins and Rooivalk were deployed to give Air support to the South African troops who were just attacked by seleka

Msauza: . They were stationed in Zambia for any attack that could happen again.

ok i now understand. you need to lose from 200 men before you can retaliate in any conflict. sissies

andrewza: Disgrace. FOMAC was disgraced. 1000 solders with AFV and they gave up or ran away with out firing a shot.

did FOMAC beg you to come and join the fight? NO

you went to CAR to copy Nigeria in projecting power and your weakness was revealed. since you wanted to be project military power, you had no reason to chicken out. now you want to blame FOMAC. joker

now tell me how you intend to project power if you keep running away from battle? losers feeling funky

Msauza: You are just a fool because the Griffins and Rooivalk were asked to retreat after the war settled. They were merely on standby for safe exit of SA forces in CAR. Should Seleka rebels envisaged second attack, they would have suffered the wrath of rooivalk and Griffins.

oh you retreated before the war even started. ok

so the first attack where you lost more than 30 men was not enough to provoke your griffins and rooivalk. ok

now just give me one good reason why SANDF is not a modelling agency?

you only stationed to jets AS THE NORMAL MODELLING STRATEGY to let the world know you have them. but did't have the guts to engage a rebel group that don't even have one helicopter.. what a big joke you are

Mike..ZA:
Modelling purposes?,unless you're leaving under a rock. Then you won't know that the SANDF is sending hardware to DRC,two Rooivalk have been allocated. Mambas are already patrolling in Goma. Now show us some heavy Nigerian weapons deployed in Mali or in your Garden.

hahahahahahaha.... the same rooivalk you stationed in zambia to attack CAR only to chicken out? SANDF is a military modelling agency. period.
go back to previous pages for the bolded.

Msauza: That's a fact. SA is becoming a military power of Africa by any day. That's what military power should become. America is regarded as world military power today because they mingle in any conflict anywhere in the world where they have interest and have lost many men in between. America has lost many men in Iraq and have even generally lost against Saddam Hussaine on one on one battle, but still that did not draw them back from their mission of conquering the world.

so after all this blabbing, why did you chicken out from invading CAR? you think military power is about just building guns and bombs? it's about having the guts and tactical skills to use those guns you dumbo. Something SANDF lacks.

imagine them shooting kids passing by that wanted to test them and claiming to be involved in a fight clearly between DRC army and M23. something they were sent there to do in the first place. cowards.

andrewza: you mean at a bottom of a endless pit?:

how can an endless pit have bottom? South african graduate

zetdee: Well, now that you mentioned it, that vehicles does look like something that belongs in a museum.

so you lost that agument and are trying to divert abi!!! Gotcha