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- I am a South African who has a passion for my country. I am mostly interested in the Military in the Wikipedia.
- I am a Reserve Force Officer
- As a disclosure about vested interests, I have served in or with, or been attached to, the following units or formations over the past thirty years:
- I have also had close association with a number of other units, specifically Umvoti Mounted Rifles, Natal Mounted Rifles and 84 Signals Unit
Postnominals: RD
I have been awarded:
Proficiency badges
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1st Class Shot – Rifle (Proficiency)
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1st Class Marksman Black on Thatch beige, Embossed Black (Black rifle), with a black rectangle surrounding the rifle
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Demolitions (Qualification)
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Level 1 (DEMS1) Black on Thatch beige, Embossed The badge uses the traditional 9 flames exploding grenade which is superimposed over one lightning bolt diagonally (top right to bottom left) across the exploding grenade
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I have been cited for, but not yet awarded:
with
Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Humanitarian Aid clasp)
and either the
Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Peace Support clasp)
or a possible new clasp
Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Force Intervention Brigade clasp)
Wikipedia Contributions
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I used to own and run a small publishing company. Now I do private security and consulting.
I wrote a Lua module called {{Module:MilAward}}
which holds all the data I can find for medals in {{Module:MilAward/data}}
. This module impliments a variety of functions which draw the data from that stored in {{Module:MilAward/data}}
to present it in different ways.
I have created the following templates to present that data:
To be created:
{{Template:MilAward Ribbon}}
Done - display the award ribbon linked to the medal information page
{{Template:MilAward Desc}}
Done - display the ribbon and alongside it the medal name with a link to the medal's page
{{Template:MilAward Stats}}
- A template which can be used to list all the data in the database. Currently active on {{Template talk:MilAward}}
It can be invoked (#invoke) by anyone on any page, and if needed I will create a template for it.
Done If I do create the template, I will remove the stat table.
Yet Depends on someone making a use case.
{{Template:MilAward PostNom}}
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Done a replacement for the {{Post-nominals}}
template drawing from the same database.
{{Template:MilAward Stack}}
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Done This will allow for a list of medal codes, similar to the current Post-nominals template, which would then display all the ribbons specified in a long horizontal stack, similar to how the {{Template:MilAward Ribbon}}
works now with individual ribbons.
As I go, I will also add extra features:
- Country=yes -
DoneAdd the display of country to the medal description. WIll have to figure out if I display just what's in the data or do an ISO lookup for a country name. (specify the recipient's country and any OTHER country will be added to the description)
- Class=no - Allow the turning off of the addition of what's in the "Class" field to the medal description
- TextSize=xx - Allow the specification of the size of the text. Probably a percentage.
Done for PostNom not for anything else.
- Org=yes - Allow the turning on of the display of the contents of the "Org" field
- Notes=no - Allow the turning off of the display of the contents of the "Notes" field
National Order of the Southern Cross (Grand Cross) [a]
Major Jack De Valance Greeff (SA Army Retired)
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Proficiency badges
SA Special Forces Operator's Badge (Qualification)
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Gold, 10 Years Black on Thatch beige, Embossed Dagger enclosed with a laurel wreath. Exclusion to indicate diamond on Dagger blade.
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Sniper (Qualification)
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Black on Thatch beige, Embossed Black rifle and laurel wreath
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1st Class Shot – Rifle (Proficiency)
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1st Class Marksman Black on Thatch beige, Embossed Black (Black rifle), with a black rectangle surrounding the rifle
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- ^ Portuguese: Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul – Grã-Cruz
- ^ Only the Cunene clasp was awarded, to members who served in Angola during Operation Savannah in 1975 and 1976. Recipients of the clasp wear a button, with the letter C encircled by a wreath, on the ribbon bar.
Award of WikiChevrons
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The South African Barnstar of National Merit
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The South African Barnstar of National Merit
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Awarded to BoonDock for his hard work in creating and contributing to SANDF related articles. Well Done and Thanks! Gbawden (talk) 06:49, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Seconded. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:35, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
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Category:South African military officers