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Short Deployment to Somalia

So after Cyprus I was posted right away to the Airborne Regiment and then we found ourselves deployed right away to Somalia. I didn’t go on the initial deployment, I went afterwards. I was only there for a few months but when I got there everything had already been set up and kind of the culture shock that had happened when everyone got on the ground was kind of over with because it wasn’t the shock. So when I got there everything was already set up and compounds were done and fenced and everything so I just kind of went in and it was almost like being in the Cyprus compound again. The barbed wire was up, the OP’s were set and that so just the daily routine was very similar to what was going on in Cyprus; observation posts or working the front gate or going to get supplies or whatever so it was very much the same. And then I found myself back in Canada on a course so a few of us left and we started a course back home so I wasn’t really there that long to experience really the full culture shock of everything. Like I said things were set up when I got there so. We did do, we had some helicopters and we did do some jumps. Just training jumps as we were in the Airborne that’s one thing that we enjoyed to do so we found a spot, they set up a drop zone and we did a few jumps. And they had some volleyball tournaments and stuff to keep the morale up and we ended up putting in showers and stuff for us and keeping, you know, stuff like we have at home. Other than that it was really a very short deployment for me.

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