A Deployment to Sarajevo
Heroes Remember
A Deployment to Sarajevo
Well I hit the ground and I was put in with the
combined joint headquarters which was
in Sarajevo, Bosnia so I wasn’t on the
ground in one of the main areas such as
Sipovo or Banja Luka where the other troops
were fighting or were supporting peace in
those areas. I was instead sitting at a desk
all day in Sarajevo. So what we did there
is we organized all of the medical airlifts
in theatre so if you were injured within
theatre we sorted out how you were going
to get to medical care and sent the helicopter
or whatever route you were going to be
traveling we sent that transport to the
sight of injury. I remember one time we
had a guy that had chopped off his fingers.
I don’t remember exactly how but we found
a Bosnian transplant team and put them
on hold and got this guy to them in time to
save his fingers which was fantastic
because who knew they had it.
They were such a highly developed country
that they had all these resources they
had just happened to go through a terrible
war that caused devastation in their
country but those people still existed with
that skill set so we were able to find them
and use that. It was a really good tour and
then we had moved over to the camp
next door called Butmir and we were traveling
back and forth between Aliga and
Butmir which you’d live in one and
work in the other.
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