Category Archives for Afghanistan

My blog from when i went to Afghanistan with 4 mercian as part of Op Herrick 10, we deployed in Helmand and and the first 3 months in the Bastion AO then deployed into the green zone living in patrol bases for the final 3 months.

The beginning of reality….

We’re finally at camp bastion now, we moved into tents last week that will be our homes for the next 6 months, there’s 9 of us in 1 tent its not exactly the Ritz but its a lot better than some people have here in Helmand… We’ve all been looking forward to moving into our […]

Leave a comment

The start to a very different 2009….

This was written before we were mobilised in January and began our training…. The alarm I have to wake me up is probably the most annoying alarm you can have, that horrible loud waar waar waar! The standard everyone seems to have with the one choice of that or the radio but the radio never […]

5 Comments