Bosnia Mission, “The Worst of them all!”

In Bosnia, Bosnia was the worst of them all. Normally being a driver it takes just like a, probably three or four hours to get from point A to point B. Sometimes it would take us 72 hours to get from point A to point B because there was road blocks and I remember once my vehicle was stopped in front of the trench where a soldier with an RPG 40 pointed at my vehicle and there was mines in front of the other vehicles and it’s always a negotiation process so the officer would go in front or the person responsible of the convoy would go in front and they would negotiate a drive thru , you know, so that we can continue on our mission. Sometimes they would refuse, sometimes they would allow it. I was on one of the other missions also in Bosnia where I was the one responsible for the convoy. I had a vehicle there that when I approached the Serb area, the Serb stopped me and they did not want, allow me to go through because they thought I was carrying rifles and ammunition for the Croatian people on the other side. So I had to make a decision at that time should I open the doors of my truck to show them that I wasn’t doing that or should I just leave it like that. And luckily I had chosen to leave my doors closed because that would have started a scenario that every vehicle that they would stop they would be able to check inside the vehicle and by me not doing that, not allowing them it also prevented me from continuing my mission but it also prevented from any further vehicle being questioned and asked to be opened just because they were scared that we were carrying ammunition or things like that.