Sights and smells in Bosnia

I know when we moved in to Okachani there was a lot of dead bodies around and there was, they were old. They'd been, there wasn't much left of them. We'd done some exploring around the town and you'd found some corpses and it stank. And a lot of animals, a lot of dead animals, like it, it hadn't been, everything had gone, basically farms were left as they were and when the refugees left and so all the animals died. They were left on their own and they, there were animal bodies everywhere. So there was, it was a real, things were in turmoil there and you know everything you looked was just, everything looked crappy, ‘cause you know, we'd, we'd gone to a country that'd just been through fighting and all the refugees had left and then everything that was left was shot up, destroyed, gone, picked over. You know, it was just a world of shit.

Mr. Grossinger talks about what he saw and smelled going into Okachani.

Darcy Grossinger

Mr.Grossinger was born in 1969 in Germany, and was raised on army bases around the world due to his father’s service in the Canadian Forces. Seeking adventure and the opportunity to travel, Mr.Grossinger enlisted in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in November of 1989. He became a rifleman and climbed the ranks quickly becoming a corporal. In the fall of 1992, Mr.Grossinger was given his first assignment overseas in Croatia with the United Nations Peacekeeping operations. Over the course of the six month tour, Mr.Grossinger did many jobs, including releif convoys, escorts and patrolling missions. It wasn’t until 1997, and again in 2000, Mr.Grossinger would return to that area, only this time he was stationed in Bosnia under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Shortly after his 2000 tour in Bosnia, he was sent as part of an American brigade doing sensitive site exploration in the challenging mountains of Afganistan.