In age phrases the fledgling 48 Airborne Fashionable Brigade is younger, exceedingly so, however that hasn’t dampened the beginning of traditions and worth to spice up camaraderie and esprit de corps.
At first, 48 Airborne has a flag it may possibly look as much as and determine with because of Patrick Visser of Mannequin Engineering in Heidelberg. He sponsored an interim brigade flag that was handed and brought over on the Normal de Moist taking pictures vary in Bloemfontein.
48 Airborne is, in line with Main KE Mkhwanazi, Workers Officer 1, Operational Communication, SA Army, the primary brigade of its kind to be “established within the post-democratic period”. It, together with 4 different fashionable brigades, is the brainchildren of SA Army Chief, Lieutenant Normal Lawrence Mbatha.
On the ceremony, Brigadier Normal Bayanda Mkula mentioned: “Navy flags are an integral a part of army items. Other than id, pleasure and uniqueness of items, flags symbolize command and management as they’re hoisted on the headquarters”.
The second part that will likely be integral to 48 Airborne custom in years to come back is what’s termed the “log and dagger”. It’s actually a log with 4 daggers caught into it to symbolically being the soldier from the sky.
The log represents the ruggedness of the paratrooper, the daggers symbolise paratroopers’ aggressiveness and the “driving in of the daggers” symbolises the unity of airborne troopers no matter rank, writes Mkhwanazi for SA Nationwide Defence Pressure (SANDF) social media. “Within the airborne, all troopers are equal and depend upon one another for survival throughout battle with 4 daggers representing rank groupings – officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and privates.”
