User:BoonDock

Service

• As a disclosure about vested interests, I have served in or with, or been attached to, the following units or formations over the past thirty years:
  • 5 South African Infantry Battalion (National Service & Border Duty)
  • 1 Recce (Selection)
  • Natal Carbineers
  • Cape Town Highlanders
  • Durban Light Infantry
  • 19 Field Engineer Regiment SAEC
  • Natal Field Artillery
  • United Nations Force Intervention Brigade This included 6 South African Infantry Battalion, 1 Parachute Battalion and 5 Special Forces Regiment (South Africa)
• I have also had close association with a number of other units, specifically Umvoti Mounted Rifles, Natal Mounted Rifles and 84 Signals Unit

Awards

Postnominals: RD

I have been awarded:

• Pro Patria Medal
• General Service Medal (South Africa)
• Unitas (Unity) Medal
• John Chard Medal
• Medal Ribbon for Loyal Service - with RD device (Reserve Distinction) (RD)
• United Nations Medal (MONUSCO - DRC (Numeral 2))

Proficiency badges

Badge for Reserve Voluntary Service (Service Award) Five Years Voluntary Service. Black on Thatch beige, Embossed.	1st Class Shot – Rifle (Proficiency) 1st Class Marksman. Black on Thatch beige, Embossed. Black (Black rifle), with a black rectangle surrounding the rifle
Demolitions (Qualification) Level 1 (DEMS1). Black on Thatch beige, Embossed. The badge uses the traditional 9 flames exploding grenade which is superimposed over one lightning bolt diagonally (top right to bottom left) across the exploding grenade

I have been cited for, but not yet awarded:

• Medalje vir Troue Diens (Medal for Loyal Service) (20 Year Clasp)
• Medalje vir Troue Diens (Medal for Loyal Service) (30 Year Clasp)
• iPhrothiya yeBhronzi (Bronze Protea) (PB)
• Nkwe ya Boronse (Bronze Leopard) (NB)
• Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal)

with Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Humanitarian Aid clasp) and either the Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Peace Support clasp) or a possible new clasp Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Force Intervention Brigade clasp)

Wikipedia Contributions

• I have contributed in a small way to a number of Wikipedia pages and developed the {{SA Army Units}} template as well as the {{Medal Display}} and {{Badge Display}} templates.
• I track the WP:NOREFLIST and CAT:REF and try to keep them clear.

More information Category, Pages ...

Backlog status (Purge)

Category	Pages	Current status
Pages with broken reference names	5468	Not done
Pages with duplicate reference names	821	Not done
Pages with incorrect ref formatting	199	Not done
Pages with missing references list	10	Done
Total	6498

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Civilian life

I used to own and run a small publishing company. Now I do private security and consulting.

MilAwards

I wrote a Lua module called {{Module:MilAward}} which holds all the data I can find for medals in {{Module:MilAward/data}}. This module impliments a variety of functions which draw the data from that stored in {{Module:MilAward/data}} to present it in different ways. I have created the following templates to present that data:

• {{Template:MilAward}} - This defaults to the {{Template:MilAward Ribbon}} mentioned below - display the award ribbon linked to the medal information page

To be created:

• {{Template:MilAward Ribbon}} Done - display the award ribbon linked to the medal information page
• {{Template:MilAward Desc}} Done - display the ribbon and alongside it the medal name with a link to the medal's page
• {{Template:MilAward Stats}} - A template which can be used to list all the data in the database. Currently active on {{Template talk:MilAward}} It can be invoked (#invoke) by anyone on any page, and if needed I will create a template for it. Done If I do create the template, I will remove the stat table.  Yet Depends on someone making a use case.
• {{Template:MilAward PostNom}} -  Done a replacement for the {{Post-nominals}} template drawing from the same database.
• {{Template:MilAward Stack}} -  Done This will allow for a list of medal codes, similar to the current Post-nominals template, which would then display all the ribbons specified in a long horizontal stack, similar to how the {{Template:MilAward Ribbon}} works now with individual ribbons.

As I go, I will also add extra features:

• Country=yes -  DoneAdd the display of country to the medal description. WIll have to figure out if I display just what's in the data or do an ISO lookup for a country name. (specify the recipient's country and any OTHER country will be added to the description)
• Class=no - Allow the turning off of the addition of what's in the "Class" field to the medal description
• TextSize=xx - Allow the specification of the size of the text. Probably a percentage.  Done for PostNom not for anything else.
• Org=yes - Allow the turning on of the display of the contents of the "Org" field
• Notes=no - Allow the turning off of the display of the contents of the "Notes" field

Major Jack De Valance Greeff (SA Army Retired)

• Honoris Crux Silver (HCS)
• Pro Merito Medal (1975) (PMM)
• Military Merit Medal (MMM)
• Pro Patria Medal (South Africa) (with Cunene Clasp) ^[b]
• Southern Africa Medal
• General Service Medal (South Africa)
• Unitas (Unity) Medal
• Commando Closure Commemoration Medal
• De Wet Decoration (DWD)
• Good Service Medal (Bronze (10 Years))

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• HCS, PMM, MMM, DWD

Proficiency badges

SA Special Forces Operator's Badge (Qualification) Gold, 10 Years. Black on Thatch beige, Embossed. Dagger enclosed with a laurel wreath. Exclusion to indicate diamond on Dagger blade.	Free Fall Paratrooper (Qualification) Advanced, Freefall. Black on Thatch beige. Small Black wings
Sniper (Qualification) Black on Thatch beige, Embossed. Black rifle and laurel wreath	1st Class Shot – Rifle (Proficiency) 1st Class Marksman. Black on Thatch beige, Embossed. Black (Black rifle), with a black rectangle surrounding the rifle
Assistant Physical Training Instructor (Qualification) Assistant PTI. Black on Thatch beige, Embossed. Crossed sabres

Award of WikiChevrons

		The WikiChevrons
		This is in recognition of your creation of Durban Regiment and 19 Field Engineer Regiment (as well as your much more ambitious SA project off-wiki!!) Keep it up! Great work!! Buckshot06 (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

• Thank you @Buckshot06:!! BoonDock (talk) 09:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

The South African Barnstar of National Merit

	The South African Barnstar of National Merit
	Awarded to BoonDock for his hard work in creating and contributing to SANDF related articles. Well Done and Thanks! Gbawden (talk) 06:49, 9 December 2014 (UTC) Seconded. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:35, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

• Thank you @Gbawden:!! BoonDock (talk) 09:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
• Thank you too @Dodger67: BoonDock (talk) 13:45, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:South African military officers