Daily Routine while On Patrol

Croatia, if I wasn’t on patrol, as I said earlier our UMS was in some sort of a school/orphanage type of thing. If I didn’t do any patrol, I guess we got up at 5:30 or something like that. We got up, do my personal toiletry, breakfast and then anybody coming in for sick parade basically; it’s like you walking to a medical clinic and I’d be screening the patients and once the screening is done do an examination and go up to the medical officer, this is what I have doc, blah, blah, blah and once it’s all done help with the treatment of the patient so that‘d basically be a part of the day and if I wasn’t working the treatment role well we had pharmacy stores so I would be working in there getting medical orders for the guys that are in the platoon houses and if I wasn’t there on another day I would be outside maintaining the maintenance of vehicles. On patrol, well basically let’s say, for example there was a rifle company, well they’d go from village to village and inspect the area to look if there is any infractions of the peace accords and I would be there just providing medical support to the rifle company, type of thing. I remember one incident, 2004, Bosnia and we were going around on patrol and there was this old lady. She was living in the annex of her house because the other part was blown up. She was 80 years old and she had second degree burns on her hands because she was using a fireplace so I went over and did some treatment on her, follow up treatment and stuff like that. I know that wasn’t part of the mandate but you’re a human being, you are seeing somebody in need so stuff like that I did so that’s a bit of the stuff on patrol we did.