Unit’s Accomplishments

Interviewer: When you think back to your mission in Sarajevo in ‘92, what would you say was your unit’s greatest accomplishment? Nobody screwed up. If one of them had of screwed up you wouldn’t be talking to me. I mean, that’s a phenomenal achievement that nobody screwed up, everybody did their job, did it well. I mean I can pick out examples of unbelievable stability and common sense and braveness. The highjacking of a recce platoon, the shelling of the camp, being ambushed on some of the deliveries and all of that. Those are all what you expect from a well-trained military force, especially the battalion. That’s got a good command in control and good leadership, but the fact is nobody but nobody, nobody got drunk and did this or that, or nobody, you know, shot somebody else or anything like that and this was the first of sort of beyond peacekeeping. What I call, you know, chapter six and a half, not chapter seven. So yeah they just did an outstanding job with no blemishes.