Fighting Men of Rhodesia ep256 | S/Sgt Greg Ashton - Part 4 | D Squadron (Rhodesian) SAS, SADF RECCE
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- You can contact me (John van Zyl) at bugeisha7@gmail.com or Tony Ballinger at tonyballinger991@gmail.com.
👉Our videos and the effort we put into them are 100% free for everyone to enjoy, and all I ask is that you leave a thumbs-up on any videos that you like and subscribe to our channel. For those of you that still wish to support this channel further, however, I’ve posted links below. Thank you!
www.paypal.com...
Join us on Patreon - / johnvanzyl
Greg, you are a legend. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your incredible experiences.
An excellent discussion indeed. Thanks Greg for sharing your incredible story. Fluent and interesting from start to finish. Good man
Oyn6
This is a great interview. A South African that fought in both wars made for an awesome story. Thanks for speaking sir. It also,is a stark reminder that the enemy were Communists backed by Russia/China disguised as Black nationalists. Alot of people would rather sit back and condemn these brave men that fought instead of learning the truth of the matter by READING....a lost art it seems.
Greg‘s detailed recollections of a time long past is totally mesmerising. Salute 🫡
Thoroughly enjoyable listening!
Please do bring Greg back, again.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Let's keep the momentum going and move quickly into Part 5. Its really great that Greg can be a voice recording such fascinating and essential history for others in his shoes in the SADF Special Forces who feel they cannot share at this time for various reasons. God bless you Greg, your book is written, just transcribe the audio and flesh out the content.
Thanks for sharing your story Greg Ashton. Respect 💯
The use of morse is a little more complicated than described.
Morse is more tolerant of noise & atmospherics and requires considerably less transmitter power to get the message through. Less power means longer lasting batteries.
RhSAS had TR48/B22 batteries that were specially built. They used Zinc Carbon batteries, were not rechargeable, had more capacity and were disposable.
@tightcamper Thanks for that 'Pi%$$!()g on my battery' bit. Said in jest but what you said is true and I did not want to get into the nitty-gritty of the batteries that we made up). I learnt this in Rhodesia, as did many of our signallers.
A good tale, well told.
Another two clear interesting talks by Greg.
Another good video, remarkable account regarding the aircraft. Seasickness is dire... only went with the Navy twice, once around Poole Harbour, no problem; the other time across Biscay, two and a half days of total and utter misery... Keep them coming Tony. 👍
I think I'm addicted to Greg's stories😎👍👍🍻🍻🙏🙏
Great stories, just finished part 3 and 4 on my long journey to the south of 🇬🇧 looking forward to more for the 2nd of the drive.
Thanks for company 🫡
Glad you enjoyed it. We have another Greg Ashton talk to publish as soon as I've edited it ;)
Fantastic series of interviews, respect to you both.
Look fwd to the nxt installment of african history. Probably the best ive watched so far. Great narrative and recollection to you Greg...👍👍👍
Words fail me. Thanks Greg, Tony and John for another memorable interview.
Legend. Thank you for your service. What a massive life you have lead. You lived rather than have let life pass you by.
This episode utterly wonderful.
Special forces ops par excellance.
Thank you Greg tony and John.
Sincere appreciation to the channel and to Greg for the informative, detailed and honest accounts of these historic events. Greg, you bring to life the stories in an authentic way, and the occasional humorous anecdotes reflect the reality of finding things funny in tough circumstances. Respect!
What a mushi murungu! So easy listening to you talking in such a lovely voice and manner. An absolute pleasure and privilege listening to this. Keep it up and give us as much as you can!
Another awesome video much respect
Grate talk thank you.
Thanks Greg for sharing your experiences in Rhodesia and South Africa and Tony and Fighting men of Rhodesia for making these stories available 👍
Another great instalment of operational recollections. Many thanks Greg for sharing your commendable experiences and Tony/John for publicising these important historical accounts.
Ive been catching up on episodes of FMoR. This series of stories are top notch, as usual Tony.
Thanks to both of you
Brilliant !! Well articulated...
@davereid-daly Thank you. Correct me but we did meet some years back in Johannesburg ...
I love listening to your Rhodesian accent Greg.
Thats a South African Accent. He is South African, although the two are almost indistinguishable. But Rhodies will say Riot as royt.
@@BallisticCoefficient
Not so. I have a friend here in Tasmania I met a year ago. All the locals speak of him as a South African. The moment I met him I said that he was Rhodesian. It turns out we grew up in the same suburb of Salisbury although 16 years apart.
@AnnE-mn8ny That accent cost a lot of time and elocution lessons. I spent 2 years, working on it as I was doing work on radio and video and needed to lose the heavy accent I had then (even though I did not realise it then ...)
Thanks Greg, Being transported back to the Bush and Sea operations so many years later is nothing short of pure gold. Solute
This is such a riveting story told in a matter of fact was by Greg Ashton. His motorized unit taking out 3 helicopters is especially interesting. Greg was on the OP Uric raid from Rhodesia on Mapai in 1979 wherein our forces lost a Puma 164 SAAF and a Bell Helicopter RhAF with the loss of 18 lives. One of the criticisms made was that the Rhodesians should have used the Squadron of T54 tanks and their Eland 90mm gun armoured cars in their arsenal against Mapai to take on a Frelimo Motorised Brigade. Greg's account of his motorized Unimog Sabres taking out an Anotov and 2 Mig Helicopters is fascinating. The use of a Strella missile also brings back bitter memories when these were used to down Rhodesian civilian Viscounts. Thanks Tony, John and Greg.
One could say that your mind killing repetition in training is the key but first you need chaps that can take it thanks
Thank you, Greg, for your experience and sharing it. It is not for entertainment but to show the caliber of men and their ability in what they did and done it well. We have always been a nation not to be messed with, and it did not matter the size of the enemy. Greg, I salute you for what you have achieved and others like you.
Tony, thank you very much in giving Greg a platform to express his experience and informing the man in the street on what South Africa did to the nations that attacked us.
Thank you, John and Tony, for keeping this TH-cam channel going. 🫡
Wow -- these 4 episodes have been brilliant! A big thank you to Greg and Tony and the FMOR team this is a truely wonderful account. So clear and with attention to detail - greatest respect !
A class act! Thank you for sharing your slice of history in such a humble and engaging way. Looking forward to watching the next few.
Very good thanks guys 👍👍
Can't wait for parts 5,6,7,8
Thoroughly enjoying this channel. Fascinating stuff.
Welcome aboard!
Wonderfully entertaining interview again, Greg! Thanks Tony and John for making it possible!
Eagerly awaiting Part 5! 🙂
Awesome Greg!!
Echo everything Tony has said about this interview and the first three - Well done !!
Great Interview ,thank you
Awesome stories staff
Great War stories and history lesson.
Thanks.
Master you are
What a fantastic mini series of interviews, a natural story teller.
The usual high quality effort from you guys.
Really appreciated
Much appreciated!
Thanks Greg and Tony, really intriguing an spellbinding story. Thank you.
🎉Thank you Guy's r😊🎉
Again, excellent stories. Thank you.
Dankie!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Epic interview..... respect Greg.
Thanks Greg for this interesting episode, you really seem to care for the wellbeing of the operators that you worked with,and thank you Tony for hosting this.
I look forward to more episodes .
All the best to both of you.
Good stuff. Thanks
ding dong dairy bell
Saluut!!
Why didn't they want the strike boat sailors to familiarize with you chaps ??
Many, if not most of them, were national servicemen, I would assume. So, their security clearance and capability of containing sensitive information pertaining to the operation and location was minimum and thus the senior officers would want to minimise further exposure to contain it.
That would be my educated guess.
@@GregoryAshton_house_n_hill tks
Thanks Lads... now, here's a thought... Greg, you and SW do a team chat, please!!
did you ever have dinner with justine vermaak and douw steyn
Justine did selection a few years after me (his brother Roy and I were on the same selection cycle with Douw in 1977
@@GregoryAshton_house_n_hill I asked that question with tong in cheek. I know Douw and have shared braais and beers with him. I am also a participant with the SPFA at the annual potjie compo at the Mills bomb shell hole. It is great fun. Our 4 some (C squadron 61 mech) came second. our prize was Specialised Cooking The Recce Way. Absolute awesome read
Horse flies?
I have encountered the horrible critters whilst riding in England and Tuscany.
Time for a book Mr Ashton-long overdue.
Thanks Tony and Greg. Tony the German Abwehr #ww2 startede to train frogmen, and these was unleashed after D-day causing havoc on bridges and shipping with mini uboats and re-breater underwater lungs acquired from the Italian 10 MAS. Great work Tony😊
very interesting! (Tony B )
@@Toncor12 Yeah, just found out last year that they where trained here in Denmark. 500-900m from where i live now. Mainly frogman training in a lake, demolitions and shooting. The guy in command was a Lt Prinzhorn. He preferred his members of MEK 60, to be older more experienced men. 20km here they trained for swimming in saltwater
Well done Greg. Very insightful. We salute you!!