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Humanitarian Work

  • Shiv Chand
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

The work out in Bosnia when I got out

was part of the World Food Program

because the infrastructure of the country

There's no infrastructure left.

There was various elements of the Army,

you know, the RAF

and things like that,

And then there were civilian police out

and stand up the police force again,

stand up, normal society up again.

Because society had fallen to bits,

animalistic state

You know, one community was trying to wipe

Right.

So that, you know, in what the,

the ops to stop that. So

out there, we had the World Food Program,

and yet it is normally,

civilian aircraft that flew,

the, the food around,

right, with civilian aircrew and retired

So they, they flew the, the food around.

And when they couldn't in inclement

It's the Air Force pilots.

The Royal Air Force pilots are the Army

that will take on the tasks because

people go hungry in bad weather as well.

So say so, then take the

of the the whole of the country.

You know where there was nothing,

reach these helicopters had to reach

people didn't go hungry.

And if the mission was to stop them

then the airforce have to come to the mark

It was as simple as that.

World Food

They not only did they

that also brought the fresh produce

Fruit is a commodity.

That's, you know,

you can live on ration packs,

but when fresh fruit comes along, it's,

simple things in

a you look at it and you,

you think it's more than an apple.

Just to bite into something like that.

That's fresh.

Right?

It's, that that that's the sort of thing

Fresh food, fresh water.

We take things for granted

that, you know, it's

They were taken around delivering

where everything had fallen

They relied on

that quantity of food to,

so that

it also made you feel

that he was there

for the good of mankind.

You know, here we are, trained

aviators, soldiers, sailors.

This is the humanitarian side

not trained to.

We trained for,

war, but we use those skills

to bring in the humanitarian side

And most of our work in the armed forces

If that's the way to combat

the world problems, then so be it.

And it's it's a good way to do it.

And it's to see the look on

when they are in dire need of help.

That.

You can read.

It is

so fulfilling that

you've made that happen,

Never individual out there.

Your team. Yeah.

And when you realize

that you’re that element in that team,

then you know

it's worth doing all the time

and that, you know, you don't need an

to nominate people to do that.

There's enough volunteers in our ranks

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