Dude, Stop perpetuating myths. It is not a "Hush Hush" unit. Its
just quite new.
It is a force that is made up of regular infantry/guards/Cdo
soldiers. It even has regular "men" in it!!! These men however, are
quite a sad breed (i heard) coz the sign a (approx.) 4 years
contract that will in most cases not be renewed. If they want to
sign on a spec later, they need to go to SISPEC.
Since it is made up of regulars, it is the unit that will usually
be deployed for real ops. Eg. Peace keeping. It is also for the
same reason that they are the ones that are issued with the
goodies. Eg. they were using the LBVs for quite a while
already.
Another thing about ADF is that they tend to more than thier fair
share of discipline problems because of, as you can imagine, the
type of ppl they attract. (IE sign on in infantry as men for what
will in the most cases be a short term - almost mercenary type
people). Behaviour wise, those that i have come across has this
elite mentality that i personally find very irritating.
Hoever, i do think that the ADF is a good idea and makes a valuable
asset to the SAF. If only they can rein in their soldiers...
