Running time
1 min 2 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
We got briefs, we got lots of different types of training. I just remember lots of it was specific to that theatre, lots of it was just in case. We had, I remember fumbling around with my gas mask and the canisters. Even preparing for that sort of threat of NBC warfare. We had training on mines, I remember the instructor with all these different types of mines, Russian, Italian, all sorts of mines, just nasty little buggers.
That was a big thing that was impressed upon us because the place is just littered with them, just everywhere. The Russians sowed millions and millions of mines, and then the Taliban, they dig them up and reuse them for their own purposes.
