Jose Garcia - A biblical landscape

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1 min 22 sec
Date made
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Department of Veterans' Affairs

Transcript

It was vast and mountainous. Where we're based, it was a plain, a flat plain. I mean there are some low-lying hills. And in the distance, it was just mountains. I mean you can look it up on the internet. You could just see for miles and miles, everything was long-range. So that meant when people went out on patrol, a lot of times they didn't even cam (camouflage) up. This is like, extreme from jungle warfare to desert warfare where jungle it's engagement in meters and here it's in kilometres.

So there's not a point in camming (camouflage) up your face when they can see your silhouette two kilometres away...lot's of rocks. What really dictated the, geographically was the mountains. So that's what everything revolved around, where the valleys were, where the high peaks were. Geography, where the rivers where we often had the populations centres. It was very stark. I've heard the term other people use, biblical, and they would probably be right

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