VIP Visit

This visit was announced to us on a very short notice. I barely had time to plan the program, prepare the briefing and to put together a patrol for the VIPs. The Chief of Operations of the Swedish Armed Forces and the Senior Lawyer of the Swedish Armed Forces with their close protection team paid us a visit. To make things more interesting - for us at least - they arrived with the German CH-53, call sign "NAZGUL". We took it down at the NDS compound with green smoke and fancy hand signs, because they wouldn't answer our link-up calls. Then we drove the general and his party to the land area that is planned for the new PO compound. From there we drove to the OCCP, and then to the PO for some coffee and a briefing. Then it was time to rush back to the NDS compound, where the big chopper was just touching down when we arrived. Another busy day.


On landing, the helicopter almost missed the landing site.


Taking off, it was more precisely on the spot.