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What weapon is this chap holding?

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Looks like the HK UMP. following on from the MP5 series.

http://www.heckler-koch.com/HKWebText/d ... 26/82/4/20

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Indeed - not cheap, thought this stuff was mostly reserved for Spes Ops? (e.g. Taakies). Who are these guys in normal SAPS dress with ballistic helmets and expensive weaponry?

Some changes clearly since I was last in SA.

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Hi H10 ....

Where was the picture taken and by whom - do you know? Rambo on steroids

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Uncertain but the picture was taken from the SAPS thread on MilitaryForums.net Would like to see how the individual is holding it on the other side. I've no reason to doubt the competency of the individual wielding it.

That said, all of his kit does look brand spankers.

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I am using old SAPolice names ie Riot Unit, Reaction Unit, these names in the SAPS are more PC now but are the same thing.

Below the Task Force is the Reaction Unit, the Reaction Unit is a Unit within a Riot Unit. The oldest Reaction Unit is # 9 which is part of Riot Unit 9 Durban.
Not all Riot Units though have a Reaction Unit.

Some of the Units below no longer exsist and some only came into exsistance after 1994.

01 Pretoria
02 Diepkloof [Soweto but did the Jhb area]
03 Soweto
04 Potchefstroom
05 Krugersdorp [West Rand]
06 East Rand [Dunnottar/Springs]
07 Middelburg [Tvl]
08 Pietermaritzburg/ Natal Midlands
09 Durban
10 Cape Town
11 Paarl/Boland
12 Port Elizabeth
13 East London
14 Oudtshoorn/George
15 Kimberly/Diamond Fields
16 Welkom/Gold Fields
17 Bethlehem/Southern Free State
. Area included Harrismith before Unit 35 was established
18 Port Shepstone/Umzimkulu, used to belong to Unit 9
19 Devon (Pretoria) This Unit was a Reserve Force to be sent to high Unrest area and served country wide.
20 Colenso
. Established early1990’s from Unit 8 members.
21 Newcastle/Uthukela
22 Pietersburg/Capricorn
23 Vaal Triangle
24 Hazyview
25 Katlehong
26 Mooirivier / Klerksdorp
27 Rustenburg/Marico
28 Molopo / Vryburg
29 Gordonia / Upington
30 Eastern Free State
31 Botshabelo Southern Free Sate
32 Grahamstown
33 Umfolozi
34 Lichtenburg
35 Harrismith
. Was firstly part of Unit 17 Bethlehem
36 Queenstown
37 Kroonstad
38 Noord Rand
39 Alexandra
40 Ixopo, area used to belong to Unit 8
41 Marico/Loate
42 Ulundi
43 Kwamhlanga / Hoeveld
44 Mthatha
45 Umtata / Lusikisiki
46 Mmabatho
47 Mopani
48 Thohoyandou
49 Uitenhage
50 Waterberg
51 Karoo
52 Durban North
53 Secunda / Eastern Hoeveld
54 Drakensburg
55 West Metropol
56 Namakwaland
57 Bo-Karoo

Good memory there Wxxxxxx - seemed that the SAP had it well covered.

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I served in Riot Unit 8 before going to the Forensic Unit, from Rambo to powder puff moff. But my sable hair fingerprint brush and other kit put more"human garbage" behind bars than all my "toys" I had to play with at the Riot Unit.

Eish that list is from my SAPolice files, could never remember half of the post 1994 Units. Some of them are tiny and if called a Platoon would still be misnamed.

I was in Unit 20 Colenso and most of the members came from Unit 9 in Point, a few were from Unit 8 in PMB.

40 Was Umzimkhulu bridge if I remember right

we used to pick up Harrismith (35) on our radios in colenso and I'll always remember this dude that gave himself the callsign of 'drie vyf sewe magnum'

Ja, Rick and how is Scotland abit different to Pietermaritzburg.

Yeah, not too bad. Who's that, Sandy?

Correct first time, ......give Rick S.. a coconut