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The Mexican Chronicles – Seven
Then we went through the normal – for some people – shit, with the store-men, to get our kit. Don’t really like rear echelon soldiers, and with good reason. In the SADF we called them jam-stealers; this lot proved no different. What was really surprising was the lack of kit issued. We got: boots: 1 pair, shirts: 2, trousers: 2 pairs, sheets: 1 pair, blanket: 1, mossie net: 1, underpants: 3 pairs, socks: 2 pairs.
That’s not the bad part. What was worrying, was what we didn’t get: mess equipment, water bottle, webbing, groundsheet, spade. Even worse – no assault rifle!
A white boy in an African country at war, in a soldier’s uniform with no weapon? Not good at all, safe camp or not. We spent most of the first day packing kasse (Army steel cupboards) and tents onto vehicles. It was a strange feeling, wearing commie cammos in a strange land with a bunch of generally unfriendly guys. I learned later these ou-manne had only been there a week or two longer than us. Assholes! My pay number was 158 and a few on the payroll were still in Pretoria; this was early days for Executive Outcomes.
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Bimbi’s Letters
BIMBI’S LETTERS
In any military situation the Brass knows that letters from home are important for morale, so Executive Outcomes set up a similar system to what most of us had known in the SADF. Obviously without all the bullshit, like having to do push-ups if your letter smelt of perfume. Every plane that came in had some mail for us. We could get stamps at the canteen and our letters would be posted from “The House” in Pretoria. My mail was mainly from Charmaine; she even sent some drawings based on what I wrote about camp life.
We had been in Angola for a few months when I noticed that Bimbi never received any mail. So I watched to see if he ever sent any out; he did not. I knew he had a wife and kids living in Phalaborwa, although he was Congolese. At this stage the South African news was full of stories, some actually true, of a bunch of South African mercenaries in Angola. A few guys had been killed already and the newspapers were having a field day. Charmaine kept a photo of three bodies; dead and half-naked, that Savimbi had sent to the South African news services as a warning to keep South African soldiers out of his country. I’m sure all the wives and girlfriends were eagerly waiting for mail.
One day I asked Bimbi why he did not write, would his wife not be worrying about him? Now, Bimbi was a really black man, not some shade of brown. If he could have, he would have blushed. The story was, he and his wife had no common written language. Although he could speak five or six languages, he could only write in French. His wife, being from Venda, probably had never even heard French before she met Bimbi.
I offered to write on his behalf, and, after much cajoling, Bimbi arrived in my tent late one night. It was touching to see how embarrassed this hard-assed ex-5 Recce soldier was; so shy about his personal life. He told me to write that he was well and to ask how are the kids. That was it! When I asked if I should write that he missed his wife, he nearly crawled under the bed. I then teased him further. I asked if I should tell her how much he loved her, too. We eventually sent a letter off. His next embarrassment came when Goodness, his wife, replied. The poor bugger couldn’t read English either. So he snuck into my tent late one night again and very shamefacedly asked me if I would mind reading his letter. The cost to him must have been enormous. He was pleased that his family were all well. Bimbi was a truly brave man, in every respect, and I liked him all the more for it.
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The Mexican Chronicles – Six
Caba Ledo
After attending to the basics, the first thing I noticed was the heat. We had flown along a coastline for the past hour or more, so I knew that we were close to the sea. There was not another plane in sight. We had flown in at 32000 ft., which I believe is out of range for SAM 7s, and had dived to ground level at an alarming rate of descent for the same reason. The second thing I noticed was that the bush was not as thick as I would have expected. A white soldier in cammos climbed on the wing to refuel the Kingair, which took off as soon as possible, again for obvious reasons.
The guy that was refuelling the plane?
His name was Michael da Silva, I never met him or spoke to him while in EO, so never knew his name then, you shall meet him later in the original story he was un-named, here we shall read a LOT more about him, apart from the food story, his linking me up with Jack Murphy, and having Eeben Barlow contact me about HIS revised version of his book Against All Odds. I nearly go a mistaking ID mention in it, lucky Eeben does his research! Ja. But that happened 20 years after EO was disbanded, plus a few …. discussions with Sargeant Pelsur, not very pleasant ones! Asshole.
Back to Caba Ledo now
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The Mexican Chronicles – Five
, a civilian courier service that flew us in and out. We handed in our passports and Trevor and I made acquaintance with our first real live Selous Scout, Bruce. He was in his late forties or early fifties and rather outspoken. We eventually climbed aboard a Kingair, along with a bull terrier, which let off the most terrible farts for the next six hours. Apparently he belonged to RMS Reima at the training camp called Longa. That dog did a bit worse than just fart a bit farting while at Rio Longa.
On this first trip no one had any booze, not even I, as we were clueless about the “security” at the airport. Keep in mind that Lanseria at this time was a couple of small buildings, nothing like it looks now. Over the years since then I did notice that the airport was a hotspot for all kinds of illegal shit. Once it was upgraded the illegal shit was transferred to our military , the Air Force bases. When a tagged Rhino Horn left Hoedspruit at a few hundred kilometres an hour I wrote that it is the military and got shot down for that. But. The Gupta Business proved that I was on track. I slept on and off, and by the time we landed didn’t know if I wanted more desperately to piss or smoke. Did both simultaneously.
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The Mexican Chronicles – Four
………climbing into bed with me every morning after her mother had left for work, just in panties and a T-shirt! I had to go – anywhere! So far nothing too serious had happened, but it was coming. I went. Charmaine took us to the airport; that early in the morning, Lanseria is dead quiet. We looked around and saw a couple of other chaps standing around looking confused. You can’t really waltz up to someone and ask, ‘Where is the flight for the “gonnabe” mercenaries,’ can you? Besides, although we had a good idea that it was to Angola, we weren’t supposed to know where we were going anyway. We all stood around until some reasonably well-dressed guy came and asked us what we were looking for. We met the pilots from Capricorn Systems, a civilian courier service……..
to be continued
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The Mexican Chronicles – Three
……….fight. I didn’t care. We’d been told to bring a pair of shorts and some sandals, and that everything else would be provided. We were to be at Lanseria airport at 3 am that Wednesday.
Now we just had to wait, so we went drinking again, hitting Froggo’s for an afternoon session. Froggo’s was my afternoon and evening pub, in the day it always had a few people I knew drinking, and at night the music was usually good. Mike became a big fan of Froggo’s and used to drive from Pretoria to come drinking with us. When I got home in the afternoon, Samantha was crying and saying how I was sure to be killed, how every man in her life left her: her father, her boyfriends. I should mention now that my life was getting complicated at this stage. Samantha had got into the habit of climbing into bed with me every morning…… to be continued.
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The Mexican Chronicles Two
……. The next morning, after my customary breakfast of a six-pack and a few shots of vodka, Trevor, Charmaine and I set off to find “The House”. There, in a normal street, in an ordinary suburb we found it. The only indication something was not kosher was huge satellite dishes in the back yard (this was back in the days before DSTV). We went in, met Sergeant Pelsur, got the pay structure and signed a minimum one-year contract. The contract was to train troops in a foreign country, with money paid into a bank account of our choice anywhere in the world, in Dollars. Full medical, transport to- and from the foreign country, as well as food and drink, would be provided. All clothing and equipment was to be issued on site and in the beginning we would have to live in tents. Talking to Charmaine and my close buddy Mike that night I told them I believed the training thing was bullshit. For the amount of money we’d been offered, we were off to fight. I didn’t care. We’d been told to bring……………………..
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@ashwin Copy Post Text and Repost (Pride Epstein Freedom Combo)
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Osiris Intel, Traceroutes, Full Physical Server Co-ordinates, Open ports from vulnerability testing and the closest hotel to the servers locations. ~#shadowic
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104.20.26.140 heritage.org
Web Server
Ports: 80, 443, 2053, 2082, 2083, 2086, 2087, 8080 +2
104.20.26.140
heritage.org, defensebudget.heritage.org
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Open: 80, 443, 2053, 2082, 2083, 2086, 2087, 8080, 8443, 8880
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#July4thWeekend #july4th #july4 #4july #julyrevolution #IndependenceDay #takethelandback #takebacktheland #ClassWarfare #ClassWar #brothersinarms #classwar2026 #OnePeopleOnePlanet #onepiecerevolution #doanepal #shadowictrinity #shadowicwillprevail #lynchtheklan #shadowic #AnarchyInTheUSA
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"Money for Nothing" is a song by the British #rock band #DireStraits, the second track on their fifth studio album #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as the album's second single on 28 June 1985 through #VertigoRecords. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The song features a guest appearance by #Sting, who sings the signature #falsetto introduction.
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Dire Straits 5th album, Brothers in Arms was released on this day in 1985. It hit #1 in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.
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"Money for Nothing" is a song by the British #rock band #DireStraits, the second track on their fifth studio album #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as the album's second single on 28 June 1985 through #VertigoRecords. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The song features a guest appearance by #Sting, who sings the signature #falsetto introduction.
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"Walk of Life" is a song by the British #rock band #DireStraits, the third track on their fifth studio album, #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as a single in the US in October 1985 and in the UK in January 1986. The track peaked at number seven in the US charts, becoming their third and last top ten hit. It was their biggest commercial hit in the UK (along with "#PrivateInvestigations"), peaking at number two.
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"Your Latest Trick" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, the fourth track on their fifth studio album, #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as the album's fifth and final single in April 1986 by #VertigoRecords. It later appeared on the live album #OnTheNight; the same live version is on #SultansOfSwingTheVeryBestOfDireStraits. The full-length studio album version was included on the compilation #TheBestOfDireStraitsAndMarkKnopflerPrivateInvestigations.
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"Money for Nothing" is a song by the British #rock band #DireStraits, the second track on their fifth studio album #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as the album's second single on 28 June 1985 through #VertigoRecords. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The song features a guest appearance by #Sting, who sings the signature #falsetto introduction.
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"Walk of Life" is a song by the British #rock band #DireStraits, the third track on their fifth studio album, #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as a single in the US in October 1985 and in the UK in January 1986. The track peaked at number seven in the US charts, becoming their third and last top ten hit. It was their biggest commercial hit in the UK (along with "#PrivateInvestigations"), peaking at number two.
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"Money for Nothing" is a song by the British #rock band #DireStraits, the second track on their fifth studio album #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as the album's second single on 28 June 1985 through #VertigoRecords. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The song features a guest appearance by #Sting, who sings the signature #falsetto introduction.
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"Walk of Life" is a song by the British #rock band #DireStraits, the third track on their fifth studio album, #BrothersInArms (1985). It was released as a single in the US in October 1985 and in the UK in January 1986. The track peaked at number seven in the US charts, becoming their third and last top ten hit. It was their biggest commercial hit in the UK (along with "#PrivateInvestigations"), peaking at number two.
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read: #rock of life — #brothersinarms #cd turns 40, by #mikemettler
#music #direstraits #markknopfler #brothersinarms40 #sofaraway #moneyfornothing #yourlatesttrick #whyworry #rideacrosstheriver #themanstoostrong #oneworld #compactdisc #story #stereophile https://www.stereophile.com/content/rock-life-brothers-arms-cd-turns-40
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#BrothersInArms seems to be less sensitive, has #ElonMusk more sense of #humour ? 🤔 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bros_in_arms.jpg
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Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms 40th Anniversary Edition
Wegen des ebenfalls veröffentlichten Mitschnitts San Antonio Live in 85 ein durchaus attraktives Angebot nach all den Jahren.
#direstraits #brothersinarms #40thanniversary #live #music #review
https://music-on-net.de/dire-straits-brothers-in-arms-40-anniversary-2025/
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Dire Straits 5th album, Brothers in Arms was released on this day in 1985. It hit #1 in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.
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Brothers In Arms
May 13, 1985 ~ RRHOFers Dire Straits release what's become their best-selling album and one of the most prolific albums of all time. The album won a Grammy Award in 1986 and is #418 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Listen to Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits on Amazon Music .. #direstraits #brothersinarms #80srock #rockmusic #markknopfler #music #musicsky #musiciansky #poprock
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When Dire Straits swept the world: Anatomy of a group devoured by success.
‘Brothers in Arms’, the album that consolidated and ended the band, turns 40 and is being reissued as a luxury item.
Its legacy still resonates on platforms like Spotify, but a massive tour and an overly classic sound divided (and still divides) critics.
