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I think, for me, you’ve just got to be mission focused, whatever that mission may be. You don't have time to dwell on family matters or issues. And I literally got him involved in the vehicle and said, "Right, you need to do this, and have you done this?" Just to get him off that mindset and getting back into what we're doing. So at that stage I still didn't have a clue what we're doing. So this is the other thing too. We still wore our black berets.
We hadn't even been given the blue ones. Now, my armoured corps background is black berets with a silver badge. As we literally got from the airport and the vehicle came and picked us from the compound to take us to the Australian compound, we stopped and quickly checked the vehicle. We got out, and everyone was just running away from us scared. And I didn't know was going on. We had lollies and we just wanted to try and...
In the middle of the African country. They just ran away. And then I said, "Look, I don't know what's going on." And the officer that picked us up, he said, "Oh, you got to get those hats off." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because the Hutu Interahamwe and the previous army wore black berets." So we didn't know. We didn't have the UN hats. So we got them when we got to the compound but. So we quickly took them off and then they handed us some berets and stuff. So we just had to get mission focused and get back into it straight away and that's how I taught him.
