Headquarters in Nicosia

We were in a place called Nicosia and that was basically our headquarters and from there we had three outposts and one of them was in the Kyrenian Mountains and I have to be honest I cannot remember the names of the other two places. We used to go out on three weeks - one week we’d be in the Kyrenian Mountains and then we would move to the next outpost and then we’d move to the next outpost and then we’d come back to our main base and we’d have a week off for R&R and to get things back together again and then head back out in a week and do the round again of the three different outposts. During that time we used to escort farmers and a lot of the women did the farming too, to their fields so they could do their daily chores - look after their harvest, look after their crop that they were growing and kind of protect them. We could be in a Turkish village this week protecting them from the Greeks and then down the line somewhere you may be in the opposite and it was Greek and Turk Cypriots that were there so they were fighting amongst themselves and we were there to protect them. We’d be out there in daylight hours with them, escort them as soon as daylight came to whatever particular field they were going to and we’d stay there. They would quite often break for lunch and have their lunch right in the field and then they would go back to work as soon as they were finished their lunch and then probably around supper time, I’m gonna say five o’clock at night we would head back, take them back to their village and then we would head to our outpost.