Airborne Search and Rescue, Medical Evacuation, Chemical and Biological Warfare, Emergency Medicine, Diving Medicine, Aviation Medicine, Close Protection
Garrison/HQ
Lyttelton, Centurion[1]
Motto(s)
"Audacissimos Servamus" Serving the bravest
"God above all" (unofficial)
Commanders
Current commander
Col (Dr) Sithembiso Paul Chiliza
Notable commanders
Cmdt (Dr) Wouter Basson, Col (Dr) Chris J Blunden, Col William Mutlow, Col Kaizer Ngqukuvana, Col (Dr) Mcebisi Zukile Mdutywa
Military unit
7 Medical Battalion Group is the specialist Airborne Medical Unit of the South African Military Health Service. The Battalion's main task is to render medical support to the South African Airborne and Special Forces. The unit falls under the command of the Mobile Military Health Formation.
Other specialties of the Battalion include Combat Search and Rescue, CBRNE detection, verification and decontamination, Diving and Aviation medicine and numerous other skills associated in supporting Special Forces.[1]
Little is publicly known of this elite medical unit primarily because of its association with the South African Special Forces. The unit's founder Commandant Wouter Basson led the research on the SADF Chemical and Biological Warfare program.[2]
Other tasks of the battalion include, but are not limited to, medical support to the South African Police Service Special Task Force and other elite units, the South African Air Force Combat Search and Rescue units and the Presidential Protection Services (particularly in the context of Joint VVIP Protection Operations).
The unit is on a general six-hour standby and is ready to deploy nationally and internationally. It also maintains a limited Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defence capability.
^ ab"7 Medical Battalion Group – a unique unit" (PDF). The South African Soldier. 3. 15. Department of Defence (South Africa): 38–39. 2008. ISSN 1609-5014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
^"The South African Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme". Centre for Conflict Resolution. 13 November 2000. Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
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