That I think of anyone who has done it
and been on a MERT crew in Iraq
and and definitely Afghanistan.
I would be surprised they don't say that's
I'd also be surprised
some of the most unpleasant memories
again, for obvious reasons,
the field telephone that they called you.
When you're in the,
it was a little click on it
It was a little click
would wake me up first
rang. And,
Yeah, that that thing like I remember
at the time saying, when this is all over,
with that sound as the alarm,
I'm either going to buy
or I'll never,
the job itself was what it was, essential.
yeah.
Of course. Lives were saved.
Massive team effort. we were a part of it.
the medics, the force
protection team
That's that's probably
the thing I will carry longest with me
I remember MERT shouts
not by, as Hollywood would have, about
And, it was actually the ones that
And maybe I misremember,
you were really quiet
No waste chatter.
No this that or the other, no cross words,
Just literally getting on
I'm getting airborne as soon as you could.
If, if you can have a humorous story from,
there was there were times when,
God bless them, the Irish police tried
So, our beat up vehicle
sleeping to the aircraft, for speeding
and and, I sort of,
why we were speeding as we sped
no one heard any more about it,
when you were going on a MERT shout
it caused a little bit of interesting
but I think people almost saw
And, I think the guy was re briefed,
quite clocked what this speeding wagon
I think he, he was left in no uncertain
