By Sean Rayment
Collins Shorts – perception right away.
Feel the warmth as a British military elite bomb disposal professional, one of many males who face dying on a daily basis within the most threatening zone in the world – Helmand Province, Afghanistan. trip with those brave infantrymen that positioned their lives at the line. this is often as vibrant and dramatic as battle reporting will get.
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Get into cover!? I shout as we start following him, running, bent double in single file towards the ditch. Ditches equal IEDs. Check for IEDs, check for IEDS! Spread out!? s platoon. Reports bounce over the canal: Zip. Crack. Zipzip. Crackcrack . . Duhduhduh. Duhduh. Taliban bullets are zinging over our heads as they try to hit 9 Platoon, who are between us and them on the other side of the canal. 9 Platoon are firing back. Close the door. Close the door. t let a suicide bomber jump out and blow the lads away.
S the anti-malarial drugs I am on. I stop taking them and fight through. The school has an edge to it that Sandhurst does not.
I begin crawling out of the forest and into a rush-covered field, still half asleep. As I move closer, I can hear, despite the wind, the noise of soldiers loading up on to a truck. The rear gate is pulled closed, the distinctive clang of metal on metal echoing out from the road. The engine guns. re leaving us! ve forgotten us! 27 PLATOOOON, IS THAT YOU GETTING ON THE BUS?? From behind me, where the platoon is still shivering in the forestry block, comes a swift reply. It is in a Scottish accent I both recognize and fear.