Escorting Convoys
Heroes Remember
Escorting Convoys
My role had been to escort convoys through
Afghanistan to the different outposts where
the military was stationed and in doing
that I got to see a lot of the country,
a lot of the pitted highways that had been
bombed and so forth and not necessarily
interacting but coming across a lot of the
communities, the different villages and
so forth that we had to pass through.
We seen a lot of Afghans and
carrying on, going about their business
doing as best they could to bring back
a sense of normalcy once again
to a war torn country.
I think the most nerve wracking experience
though with respect to that is that the
enemy that we were facing and still are,
were largely camouflaged far better
than I could ever be dressing up as
typical locals and so forth so you had to
have your guard up to such an extent
that anybody just walking by you could
potentially be that Taliban or whatever enemy
that we had to face at that time
that might just come up and attack us.
You would never know until it
actually happened.
They were disguised that well.
So there was a lot more stress with
respect to Afghanistan and
having to come to terms with that and
to be that vigilant with respect
to having to be able to react properly and
keep everybody safe let alone the
rest of the locals that would be around.
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