Maj Gen Koos Laubscher was a General Officer in the South African Army from the

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Military career

He joined the

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in 1964. He was a graduate of the

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and the prestigious South African Long Gunnery Course Number 3 as a top student during 1972 and was awarded the crossed-barrels status in the same year. He passed the Army College and the Defence College courses. He saw action in Angola during Savannah in 1975-76 and throughout the

South African Border War The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Ango ...

including the operational debut of the G5 155mm towed gun/howitzer in the Angolan theatre of war during the eighties. Chief Instructor Gunnery at School of Artillery from 1975. He was an officer instructor at the South African Army College and the Army Battle School, OC 4 Artillery Regiment from 1981 to 1982, OC School of Artillery and later Director of Artillery from 1987 to 1991,

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of the Army College in 1993. He served as GOC 7 Division from 1996 to 1998. GOC Army Support Formation from 1999 to 2005. He retired from SANDF in 2005.

Honours and awards

Medals

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References

South African Army generals South African military officers Possibly living people 1945 births Afrikaner people South African people of Dutch descent Stellenbosch University alumni South African military personnel of the Border War {{SouthAfrica-mil-bio-stub