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Paul Viljoen
Rear Admiral Paul Viljoen is a retired South African Navy officer, who served as Chief of Naval Operations before his retirement. Then Commodore Viljoen was appointed Flag Officer Commanding NAVCOM East in December 1989 and promoted to rear admiral. He was appointed Chief of Naval Operations after NAVCOM East was dis-established. He retired on 31 December 1992.- References South African admirals Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{SouthAfrica-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Retief
Vice Admiral Johan Retief was the Chief of the South African Navy from 2000 to 2005. Retief was born on 20 March 1946 in Cape Town, matriculating at Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck in Cape Town. Career He attended the South African Military Academy after completing his Citizen Force training and graduated with a Bachelor of Military Science degree in 1967 and was judged the Best Student in that year. He was appointed an Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer and was selected to attend the Torpedo and Anti-Submarine course at HMS Vernon in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. He joined the Strike Craft Flotilla, initially as training officer at the inception of the project in 1975. He was the Commissioning Captain of and attended the Naval Command and Staff Course in 1981. After Completing a year as Staff Officer Surface Warfare, he was appointed Director Naval Operations in 1985. After attending the Joint Staff Course in 1988 he served as Senior Staff Officer Research at the Intelligence Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wijnberg
Paul Alexander Wijnberg (born 19 December 19342 July 2013) was a senior South African naval officer. Early life He was schooled at Maritzburg College, After joining the Navy he was sent in 1958 to to attend the Royal Naval Long Gunnery Officers’ Course. When he returned to South Africa he was appointed Officer Commanding Gunnery School. He married Mary Wijnberg and had Mike, Allan, John anSimon Wijnberg In 1973 he was posted to France as Naval Attache, for which he was awarded the Ordre Nationale de Mérite. He commanded the frigate and in 1976 took part in the Bicentennial Celebrations. He was appointed Flag Officer Naval Command East and promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral. He retired in 1998 to a farm in Grabouw where he died on 2 July 2013. Awards and decorations * * * * * * * * Commander National Order of Merit An order of merit is conferred by a state, government or royal family on an individual in recognition of military or civil merit. Order of meri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Admirals
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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