Ambulance Detail

In Kosovo we had what we called our L3W Ambulance, thin shelled ambulances, no armour or nothing like that. We had ballistic plastic put on the front of the windshields because when we first got there in FYROM, kids were tossing cement blocks at us as we were going under overpasses and they were taking out our windshields so they put this plastic on the inside of the windshield so all it would do was just crack and you had to drive down the road with goggles on, you know, plastic goggles so no glass would hit you in the eye because when we first got there that was what was happening. They were getting windshields and we were getting people coming in with glass in their eyes and stuff like that so we had to drive down with that and your helmet on, just a thin shelled ambulance that we’d drive around here in the country now. No real protection, I did take one bullet hole through the side of the ambulance. It goes through and through. Nothing really to stop it. Lucky it didn’t come anywhere near myself or the driver. We were told we weren’t in any harm at all so that’s why we didn’t have any armoured vehicles yet all the troops north would drive around in armoured vehicles and that’s who we were re-supplying. They could drive around in the armoured stuff but we had the thin shelled stuff.