Private Military Contractor International April 2014 | Page 8

AN UNEXPECTED MISSION With just 15 days left before heading home, a British PMC is called down to Helmand on a ten-day mission While working out in Afghanistan I was one of the most senior CP operators in country at that time and having visited most of the Northern Regions, either by road or Hurc, I was approached to go on a mission down in Helmand. Obviously I can’t go into too much detail but the mission was down south and it was to last for 10 days. I got a lift with all my kit from where I was staying and headed along the Jahbad Road into Kabul to pick up the client I was to BG for. As is so often the case I had never heard of the bloke before, nor clamped eyes on him but now I was to look after him for the next 10 days - and I had only been given the Sat phone, grid ref, 8 emergency RVs and what back up I had the night before. Ki еݥ͔