Mine Sweeping

We drove on and they headed us to a bush area that had been cleared. We started cleaning off our vehicles ready to go and one of the first things I got, they called me to gather up some men to go up and pick up some mines and left the vehicles there. Now when you first start you’re very, very nervous. Then once you’ve lifted one or two you just kind of make up your mind, now you’ve got to be careful, you just go easy and yeah, you keep holding, you don’t move anywheres until you’ve probed it and when you found one you dig under there, make sure there’s no trip wires on it, lifted it out and set it aside. We didn’t bother to, we’d put a pin in it. We had a whole pocket full of nails, you’d find where you put the pin. That’s difficult to find where to put that pin in the night. We started in there just, oh it was sun down, I was glad of that, tried to give us that we could see a bit. By the time we finished that area we were going through, it was pitch black, but we were getting used to it by then.