LAST 24 HOURS AT THE BAKTRUPPEN CAMP KORTRIJK
UNCOVER OPERATION ÊBACKUNCOP:
DAY 14. Ê 3RD. OF SEPTEMBER 2002.
DAYSHIFT FROM 11.00 TO 23.00.
ON DUTY: OSCAR BRAVO AND INDIA HOTEL.
12.35 - Lucas comes by and announce his entrance with Çhere comes the
enemyÈ, but we have classified him as friend a long time ago.
17.20 - Juliet Kilo arrives and starts digging, as Oscar Bravo leaves
to wash his clothes after heavy digging for hours. Tango and I,
India, have been trying to fight off the cold enemy, but today the
enemy is the strongest. Still we are working to fiinish a report for
the outside world about the operation. We hope to get it through this
afternoon if we are not under attack.
18.55 - Oscar has dug up a horse jaw, an iron box and a lot of other items.
19.30 - Tango make complaints about her burning breast. This must be
biological warfare, nature attacks.
22.15 - We have a guest. An irishman, earlier mentioned. He talks
slowly and quietly of big issues. Everybody get a bit tired. Is it
enemy activity?
22.49 - Echo Bravo arrives for his nightshift.
NIGHTSHIFT FROM 23.00 TO 11.00.
ON DUTY: INDIA HOTEL / ÊECHO BRAVO.
23.05 - Oscar Bravo leaves camp.
00.20 - The irishman leaves, but says he might be back for an open
air camping since he forgot his keys and might not get in. I say
everyone who enters the camp while we are asleep will be considered
an enemy.
00.22 - Echo Bravo announces that he will go to bed to NOT sleep.
00.51 - Echo bravo is in deep sleep. No snoring sounds or other ones.
I, India, am tired, but don't want to sleep. I feel like watching the
area. I feel alone. Me and a few mosquitos. A man on a bicycle drives
by on the road, then comes back to have a look at the trenches. He
then spots me, jumps over the trenches, and starts talking to me in
russian. It's an attack of non communication, I understand maybe 5%
of what he is saying, but this doesn't seem to bother Micha, who
continuos to tell a bit of a sad story, som fishing politics, and
making complaints about the Belgian ÇnormalityÈ. He doesn't leave
until 1.43. I find it safest to keep him in a good mood since Echo,
my fellow warrior is snoring heavily inside the tent, and doesn't
seem to be ready for any sort of night operation.
01.48 - It's nice to have the brick wall in my back. Good strategy.
I'm tired, but I don't think I should sleep. Not until Echo is awake
or it's morninglight. I drink a bit of Echo's whiskey. Enemy is
everywhere.
02.06 - It's too cold. I seek inside the tent to join with my
sleeping bag. Someone has just turned off all enemy sounds. It might
have been the whisky.
03.00 - The snoring machine is on. I, India, have only one nightshift
to go now.
07.30 - Good morning. Echo is up. Quiet, but a lot of bird activity.
One albino pidgeon observed.
09.00 - The bellls tells of a funeral.
10.00 - The bells call another funeral. India is awake.
10.50 - Juliet Kilo arrives.
11.00 - A precise Whiskey Whiskey arrives.
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