Members of this unit had spent the second half of 1982 receiving training from East German, Cuban and Russian instructors and were regarded as best PLAN soldiers.

[1]: 107  The fourteenth company headed for the white farmers in Kamanjab, Outjo, Tsumeb and Otjiwarongo areas.

[1]: 108  The small PLAN force, being chased by the South Africans, were now 50 km from the white farming areas.

But by early April, SADF/SWATF soldiers had caught up to the group and no PLAN fighters from the fourteenth unit were alive and had failed to achieve their objectives.

[1]: 108 In the two-month operation 27 members of the SADF and SWATF lost their lives with PLAN's Volcano unit losing 309 fighters.