A Soldier Never Lets His Guard Down

As a soldier, you know, you’re always, you don’t leave, you don’t let your guard down, you’re always alert so you really don’t know what can happen so a typical day would be, in Croatia, would have been, you know, doing night duty sometimes, for instance “OP” which was real, we all had our platoon, we all had our designated areas and we had our own platoon house which we called it and we were always manning it, we had security 24 hours, 24/7; pulled guard duty between two and three in the morning for instance and the next morning wake up around 5:30, 6:00; if you had the chance you’d be able to do some exercise, get some PT in; shower, shave, have breakfast and depending what was set for the day, we would have to go out and patrol certain areas or rebuild certain areas that were destroyed. It was a variety of things, either reconstructing certain buildings for us to live in or certain people to live in or patrolling. Maintenance of our vehicles, basically what we were trained for.