Three Types of People

Heroes Remember

Three Types of People

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My impression is that, that, that there were sort of three types of people you were going to run into in Bosnia, people that hated you and didn't want you there. Not really sure why, but that, probably because it was, the place was turned into a police state. Yugoslavia has been a police state off and on for five hundred years, so here's another police state, "We're not in charge of ourselves, somebody else is in charge." There's people that absolutely just loved the fact you were there, probably because somebody in their family had been raped or murdered and we were stopping all of that, and then there was the people that just look right through you and there was just no emotion when they, when they walked by you. They just looked straight through you and you could tell that they just ignored you completely. They, they just didn't even accept the fact that you were on, on the street.

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Mr. Gasser talks about how in Bosnia there were three types of people living there. Those that love you, those that hate you and those that do not acknowledge you.

Steven Gasser

Major (Ret'd) Steven D. Gasser CD (RMC 1979) was born in 1956 and grew up primarily in Kimberley, British Columbia. When Mr. Gasser was 17 he was drawn to an ad put out by the Royal Military College highlighting a flying career and the educational benefits that went along with it. He wasted no time and enlisted on his 18th birthday, with the desire to learn how to fly and also acquire a degree in engineering. After his third summer of flight training his eyes did not meet the minimum requirement and Mr. Gasser had to fall back on his engineering degree. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) (Royal Military College of Canada, 1979). Once finished his Military Engineer training, Mr. Gasser joined his first unit 5e Regiment du Genie de Combat in Valcartier, Quebec, where he was appointed as a regimental intelligence officer and then engineer troop commander. In 1983 Mr. Gasser answered the call for an engineer troop commander in support of the UN peacekeeping operations in Cyprus. After six months in Cyprus, Mr. Gasser came back to Canada to work in the construction engineering section for the air force at CFB Edmonton, and later taught tactics with the CF School of Military Engineering at CFB Chilliwack. Mr. Gasser also worked in Maritime Command HQ in Halifax as a Senior Staff Officer, and as Base Engineer at CFB Shilo, MB. In December of 1997, Mr. Gasser was deployed to Bosnia as officer commanding the 1 Construction Engineering Unit - specialist engineer company where he was able to work closely with civilians helping them to rebuild the university, bridges and infrastructure. Mr. Gasser gave 24 years to the service. He retired in September 2008 and has subsequently been appointed as the Director, Environmental services for the Town of Banff 1998 – 2003; Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Works, Government of Yukon 2004 - 2008. He has been the Associate Vice-President, Facilities Management, at the University of Calgary since 2008.

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