A Breed Apart · Photographic archive

Selection.
Training. Brotherhood.

Photographs from South African Special Forces Selection and the exacting training cycle documented in A Breed Apart. Select any image to view the original at full size.

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Johan Raath's basic training notebook — 01
Johan Raath’s basic training notebook.

Candidates during Special Forces selection — 02
Special Forces Selection — 85/02.

Interrogation phase during Special Forces selection — 03
The interrogation phase of Selection.

Candidates completing the Letra challenge — 04
Selection — the Letra challenge.

Paratroopers completing basic parachute jumps — 05
Basic parachute jumps.

Trainees abseiling during air orientation — 06
Air orientation — abseiling.

Trainees rappelling from a helicopter — 07
Air orientation — helicopter rappelling.

Team building a shelter during survival training — 08
Survival training — building a team shelter.

White phosphorus exercise during warfare training — 09
Warfare training — white phosphorus exercise.

Soldiers concealed in a guerrilla warfare ambush position — 10
Guerrilla warfare — an ambush position.

Trainees emerging from an urban warfare smoke room — 11
Urban warfare training — the smoke room.

1 Reconnaissance Commando motorcycle raiders — 12
1 Reconnaissance Commando — urban motorcycle raiders.