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23-04-2015, 14:59 #21
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This is exactly what I thought. Thanks guys. I am exceptionally fit and always building it up via bodywieght training and running. Would it be possible for me to get in contact with your friend, Bronxlive? Would be great to chat to him.
Any other advice or 2c welcome!!!
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23-04-2015, 15:02 #22
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23-04-2015, 15:04 #23
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23-04-2015, 15:06 #24
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23-04-2015, 15:06 #25
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Re: Joining SAPS Special Task Force. Advice and 2c please!
Two woman qualified on a modified selection if i understand correctly. Both chose not to work on the teams. I have great respect for them. They can outperform me on every level.
Whoever told you that story is wrong or outright lying. It was most likely a TRT member or just a station level member hitching a lift to get to a scene.
Be carefull of making comments as to the state of Taskforce.
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23-04-2015, 15:06 #26
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Re: Joining SAPS Special Task Force. Advice and 2c please!
Dave, do it, whether it is FFL or STF or whatever else. If you are a warrior at heart don't suppress it. You will regret it for the rest of your life. You get professional soldiers like Col. Jan Breytenbach, he served with British SAS before setting up Recces and 32 here. It's quite irrelevant what unit it is, seek the best one, be clever here. A friend of mine who started law school with me, gave up law school mid way in our first term of our first year. He made the cut for the Airforce. He is with the Kuwait Air Force currently, fighter pilot instructor...
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23-04-2015, 15:07 #27
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Re: Joining SAPS Special Task Force. Advice and 2c please!
Hey man Dave, I reckon 99.9% of us on this form contemplated about joining the SAPS/SANDF (after 1994) at one time or another. When I was still 17 I honestly still believed for a short while I should join the SANDF or SAPS and try to become one of the special units, not just STF but the others as well.
However bud, trust me on this, I am still young and have gone through the same motions/thoughts you have not to long ago. However I do not believe that joining the SAPS is still a viable option for young South Africans (white/black/pink or purple, unless you have ballas of staal and really really really want to join them and settle with massive risk, the lowest of pay and no family time). My GF's cousin joined the SAPS in the Western Cape about +-7 years ago and he has been attacked by thugs while his "partner" locked herself in the car with her pistol and proceeded to cry and not help him... he spent a week in the hospital.
He is 29 now and can hardly afford a house and he has a child which he cannot fully support, luckily the "oupa" is rich and helps out a lot. He had to get a loan from his father in addition to the small bank loan. (Yes we all will get loans one time or another but for what you will do in the SAPS and what you will get paid for and how you will treated by 51 million people in your country, I just cannot urge you to join the SAPS...
How are your grades? Is your M-score above 30 and do you have maths? If so, please go to university, further educate yourself and re-evaluate your life in 3-5 years. It might seem wrong now, but think about the future, your live goals will change and each year after 18 (matric) you will know what you want to do with your life.
That was my honest 2c...
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23-04-2015, 15:07 #28
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Re: Joining SAPS Special Task Force. Advice and 2c please!
Or you walk out with a French Passport and some great job opportunities to pick from.
In 2000 me and a mate made different choices on this exact same matter. He committed, I studied.
Judging by what I know today his choices was not bad , but then again neither was mine :)
Like everything else, it depends on what YOU make of it.
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23-04-2015, 15:07 #29
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Re: Joining SAPS Special Task Force. Advice and 2c please!
It's not for the STF it's for afterwardss, as usually STF isn't a life time job. He studied Geography and Business Management at Rau.
Cool ok thing is he met his current wife while in the STF. She's a chopper pilot in the Air Force.
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23-04-2015, 15:08 #30
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Re: Joining SAPS Special Task Force. Advice and 2c please!
http://www.sabreakingnews.co.za/2012...eaten-to-quit/
South Africa’s elite Special Task Force police unit is facing a crisis as many of its highly trained members threaten to quit. Members of the unit have, in an 11-page memorandum, accused police management of turning a blind eye to special pay allowances, allowing training by unqualified individuals and changing of unit standards…
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