by admin7086 | Jun 13, 2022 | Non classé
First-aid post /shooting position of a Mortar 4″2 Initially equipped with mortars 3 inches (see room 5), the mortar platoon has been equipped in the Fifties with mortars 81mm (see room 5) and with mortars 4″2 of which you see here a specimen in shooting...
by admin7086 | Jun 13, 2022 | Non classé
Command post The craft-made tent has been produced out of a larger tent (40/50) to give more mobility to the CP. The tent could be placed next to the back of a jeep. A generator for lighting Reconstitution of a Command post with its radios A range of different radios...
by admin7086 | Jun 13, 2022 | Non classé
Boating Commandos specialise in amphibian operations and are equipped among others with assault boat MK III (see in room 3C) (called GOATLEY, name of the British engineer which conceived them). They already use inflatable boats with 10 places. As from 1957, following...
by admin7086 | Jun 13, 2022 | Non classé
A M F (l)/C119 In 1964, the General Staff gives the Para-Commando Regiment the assignment of the Belgian participation within A.M.F(l) (Allied Command Mobile Forces Land) in Europe. Thus, the Commandos will take part in many international manœuvres in Denmark, Italy,...
by admin7086 | Jun 12, 2022 | Non classé
Mission” Future “ From January to June 2004, the 2d Commando Battalion is in charge of a teaching mission for a Congolese brigade in Kisangani (DRC), together with instructors specialised in specific disciplines, among whom soldiers of other nationalities...
by admin7086 | Jun 12, 2022 | Non classé
Room 9 At the beginning of the Fifties, in order to try to save the company MINERVA, well-known before the war for the construction of cars, the Belgian Government placed an order, for the whole Army, for jeeps built under licence Land Rover. For years, the jeep shown...
