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As an infantry soldier, Mike shares his first impressions of a war-torn country and shares a sense of the sights witnessed upon arrival in Croatia.
Transcription
It was very much culture shock. We left in January of 1996 and landed in Split, Croatia and it was just one of these beautiful, beautiful cities that you see in the Mediterranean and we were there for a couple of days for orientation training and getting used to the time zone and then we jumped in the LAV’s, in the vehicles and went east and you know as soon as we started to hit the war-torn countries, you know, it’s something to see a house lifted off its foundation and blown in bits or bodies on the streets or bodies hanging in trees or… you don’t forget those things.
I was young and dumb really I was more of a camaraderie type soldier. I felt safe around my other troops. We always felt safe in numbers. Was there any one time where I felt in danger? Ya, we were sniped at and we had to deal with Mujahadeen, the terrorist network a few times. Landmines were everywhere. You know you always have to be vigilant as to what you were doing. Kids carrying shot guns, kids carrying rifles. You never know what you are going to see through the day.