It was part of the South African Army Armour Formation.

Regiment Vrystaat's Eland-90 armoured cars saw service during the South African Border War.

The regiment was at that stage one of very few conventional armoured car regiments in South Africa and acted as backup reserve for South African forces leaving Angola in that period.

[2] The regiment supported Operations Hooper and Packer with 20 Ratel Drivers in 1988.

Regiment Vrystaat retained the original colours of Regiment President Steyn which is old gold, white and black, but adopted the tree of freedom the Orange Free State as its unit badge.