Special Report Transcript Episode 78, Section 5, Time 40:28

It was in this time as South Africa was counting the losses of the first big military push into Angola that the Vietnam war was coming to an end. The so-called Vietnam syndrome had not yet been coined, but in the bush South African troops were using the word ‘bossies’ to describe the other psychological wounds of war. The strange, unpredictable behaviour of some of their colleagues. // ‘’Bossies’ is derived from the word ‘bosbefok’ – literally meaning ‘bush crazy.’’

Notes: SA troops in trenches, soldier wounded picked up by ambulance

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