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As you said, everyone dealt with things in different ways. The hospital staff with rudimentary hospital that we sort of cleaned up as soon as we come in, it had loo's with holes in it, still had holes in the walls from where they'd attacked in RPGs. When the guys first got there, they were pulling body parts out of toilets that they'd hacked up and thrown in there. There were a box of grenades out the front which we eventually cleaned up.
Blood and faeces and everything, so the guys did a great job. The engineers. The medics worked in arduous conditions where... I mean, I'd participate in surgeries as well, which, we'd turn up, there wasn't a normal operating theatre. It was the windows were open, they'd be hack sawing someone's leg off and throw in the bin. So yeah, that was rudimentary medicine as best they could. So the doctors, the nurses, the medics literally did a lot of stuff that was unconventional, but they did the best.
From my side, I was more security, so mine was the unknown bit, and to protect them. So at one stage because we had to walk from our compound to the hospital, was about 50-60 metre walk, that would be lined with technicals and the Rwandan army that was next door to us. And they were starting to harass our female soldiers, sailors, and airman and harassing pretty bad. So we then had to escort them armed every time they wanted to go back and forth to go from their little hospital back to the thing. So that was a point that additional tasks and stuff we always did. So yeah, we had to put up with that. As I said, a day in life is strange. Like I was doing nightclub raids in an armoured vehicle to arrest British and Canadian soldiers that had jumped the fence. So with the military police. So that was pretty surreal to go raiding a nightclub in an armoured vehicle.
