Always on Alert

Back in our main camp, we’re in a building there and we had it fully setup there in case people in our camp got hurt you know with oxygen and everything like that but that was all in the rear, and again in the rear we had a local because there was peace in the city we were in. So we had a local hospital but we were a little sceptical about the doctors and stuff up there but if we had to we could take them there or if you go north you got the German hospital at Bonn still, you got the British, and you got the German. There was a lot of field hospitals that other countries had set up north depending on what the problem was we could take them to them because one was good at ophthalmology, one was good at… if a guy needs to be taken as what their specific specialty was. We were able to generalize that way. But otherwise on a daily run you’re going back and forth. It was just out of your ambulance and the problem we had actually leaving our own, the county we were in to make it to the border, as time went by and one of the bad things and we seen it quite often, people would take and you wouldn’t see this in Canada and they would take grandma or grandpa and push them into one of our vehicles to get hurt, killed, whatever and then try and sue the country. They’d say, “You hit my grandmother!” And it was sad, people would do this and I had seen quite a bit of it. I had someone hit the side of my vehicle and you’re watching out your mirror just like this watching who’s getting close to your vehicle and you’re always trying to move over to the middle of the road and you’re only doing ten, fifteen miles an hour just trying to leave your town but they’re trying to hit you and then say I’m going to sue you and just try and get money out of us. I had one just hit the side and the local cop, I looked back and she was gone and cop just waved us, said, “No, no keep going, keep going,” because the local police start sitting along where we’re having this problem a lot and they’d watch it happen. I do have a friend from another posting where I was at, he had problems because someone actually did throw their grandmother under the front wheel and he says, you know, he was driving and he seen them standing there and all of a sudden he sees her come flying out and that’s what the co-driver told him that she was pushed rather. It’s sad that things like that would happen over there. And that’s what they do they let one of their relatives die and then come back and say well give me money but I guess that’s what extreme poverty will do to you.