Road Recce

Today we went out for some road recce. The purpose was to check on our emergency helicopter landing sites and emergency rendez-vous points. And to keep our reinforcements busy - we could have checked the sites on any other day, but today we had the vehicles and the manpower, so why not. The weather was still quite wintry with cloudy skies and temperatures below zero even at noon. In fact, someone said that in the dead of night the thermometer had shown -16 degrees! Still our water pipes did not freeze up. There was another patrol at the same time: K and P went out to visit a police station and some checkpoints.

Our patrol had some bad luck: First, we almost got stuck in a muddy section of the so called "secondary road", which really is nothing but mud. After that we had a flat tire, but fortunately made it to the safe house before having to change to the spare. And finally, we came to the scene of a fire in the centre of Aybak, but couldn't do anything to help. We didn't even stop. Later we heard that no-one was hurt, but three or four shops were destroyed in the fire. In the evening it was poker night again (with the Swedish and American guests here, there no avoiding it).


Isaf ran into the safe house yard again, although she knows quite well that she's not supposed to go there.