Providing Protection

For me it was one of the most memorable experiences in my career. Mixing what I was trained to do with what was on the ground that we weren’t expected to see or trained for to see, it stays with you for the rest of your life. When we went to Sarajevo we had the reopening of the airport, we got to the airport and we opened the airport, basically we took the airport and it was opened for aircraft to come in and bring relief, food, medicine for the citizens of Sarajevo which at the time were pretty, were in really rough shape. Our job was to protect the vehicles, the trucks that had all the aid, food aid and medicines, etc. to destinations across the city which was divided in different sectors and we provided protection, armed protection for those vehicles and many times daily, of course, every time you went out, you came under enemy fire, sniper fire was pretty common, RPG’s were fired sometimes, so you were always on edge but I remember being, saying to myself before I left the wire, you know and went out, I said to myself, I am proud to be doing this and representing my country and being able to help all these people that have nothing and I know I have the support of my country.