by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Oct 2, 2025 | 5 Recce, Executive Outcomes, Rhodesian Light Infantery, Selous Scouts
Bert Sachse commanded the South African Army’s 5 Reconnaissance Regiment (5 Recce) during two different periods. He first led the regiment as a commandant from 1983 to 1984, and later returned as a colonel to serve a second term as commander from 1990 to 1993....
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Oct 1, 2025 | 5 Recce, Executive Outcomes
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Oct 1, 2025 | 1 Parachute Battalion, Executive Outcomes
Cobus Claassens is a former South African Army paratrooper, mercenary, and security consultant. He is known for his work with the private military company Executive Outcomes in the 1990s and has since become a managing director for a risk management firm.
by XO BBHQ | Sep 30, 2025 | 32 Battalion, Executive Outcomes
Lt-Col. Eeben Barlow is a veteran of the South African Defence Force and was the second-in-command of its elite special forces 32 Battalion Reconnaissance Wing and went as the founder of Executive Outcomes
by Greg McEwan-Marriott | Nov 22, 2024 | 5 Recce, Executive Outcomes
Retired after commanding the South African 5 Recce Regiment, then with Executive Outcomes in Angola, The first commander for EO in Sierra Leone, then founded his own company with some interesting contracts in Libya, then in Sudan against US backed troops
