The Former Yugoslavia "...79 this is 72....72A has just exploded.....They just disapeared. They must have hit a mine. I think they're all dead......" On the 15th of the September 1992 Sgt. James Davis' armoured personel carrier struck a TMA-3 anti-tank mine, although his comrades had thought them dead, they both survived the ordeal with little or no injury. The next day a Combat Engineer by the name of Sgt. Mike Ralph was killed on the same …
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…out gunned. In 1991 there was no Artillery available for the defence of U.N. soldiers, their were no helicopters for Medical evacuation, and the U.N. possessed no heavy Armour(Main Battle Tanks). The force was only aglorified police force with lightly armoured APC's. This set the stage for disaster, little to nothing was acomplished, except losing the lives of our soldiers. Most Aid convoys, were sacked and the food was used to feed soldiers.