Badge 6 South African Infantry Battalion (6 SAI )

6 South African Infantry Battalion is an air assault infantry unit of the South African Army.
6 SAI was established on 1 January 1962, at Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.The new training unit was housed on the property previously used by 44 Air School established by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
The battalion became operational in 1970. 6 SAI took part in Operation Protea and Operation Daisy in Angola