On the Offence

Afghanistan was even, took it more so because Afghanistan was an offensive operation. I mean we weren't there to keep any peace. We were there to find Al Qaeda and Taliban and take ‘em out and that was a breath of fresh air, I mean, there's so much frustration from the UN tour. It's so frustrating to be, to not be able to do anything, to actually, to get out there and kick some ass was, was just great. It was just great. That's, you know, I found, I found going to Afghanistan was therapeutic, if anything. You know, put some ghosts to rest.

Mr. Grossinger talks about being on the offence in Afghanistan instead of waiting for something to happen.

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.