| 1998 - 1999 Recall to Active Duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina |
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 LT V was the friendly staff officer in Naples who was my 1st point of contact. |
 I was going to be a liaison to the ground forces for the Navy's P3 Orion aerial surveillance program. |
 I took a Greek C-130 to Sarajevo. The airport there was a kaleidescope of different nation's camoflage uniforms. |
 Italians, Germans, French, Brits, Africans, Central Americans, Russians etc. |
 Somebody from our Sarajevo office got me and took me to Ilidza, NATO/SFOR HQ. |
 I went from Sarajevo to Banja Luka by Helicopter. British-led Multi-National Division South-West was headquartered there. |
 The HQ compound was commonly referred to as the "Metal Factory" since the facility had been that before the war. |
 Most of us lived in "Corimecs", container-sized pre-fab fold-up, stackable, configurable housing. |
 Officer country was stacked two high. No complaints, a corimec is a lot better than a tent! |  Our office at MND-SW was inside the British Intel spaces and we supported G2 (Inteligence). |  A Kiwi (New Zealand) officer was the G2 deputy. Here we are at the 6th Czech Mechanized brigade in front of a Soviet BMP. |
 Our mobile team needed some parts over in Titov Drvar, so one of my Marines and I drove over. |
 We went through some eerily deserted country-side. Even the birds had gone away. |  Not long after passing this Canadian APC, we were in the fog and had a close encounter on a narrow road with a large British Tank. |
 I met up with Shawn and his two Marines at point overlooking Titov Drvar. |
 Another shot of the office at Banja Luka. |
 After a month with the Brits I transferred to Tuzla. My notes say this was a NEPALESE armored vehicle. |  It was travelling with a Norwegian armored vehicle. |
 We passed this extremely picturesque Serbian Orthodox church. |
 Welcome to Tuzla, HQ of US-led MND North. |
 After the first night in Shawn's old quarters with a room-mate, the Army insisted I move here to a private Corimec! |
 All this to myself! Rank hath its priviledges. |
 Brown & Root ran most of the services on the base, including the chow-hall. |
 Two of my folks at dinner. |
 The post office, manned by military postal clerks. |
 The fire station, manned by US Army personnel. |
 The Laundry, manned by Bosnia ladies supervised by Brown & Root. |
 Me at the office. |
 My LCPL is improving his tactical acumen using that proven training device - "Age of Conquest". |  Moose is considering putting the Unisys computer system out of its misery. |
 Bob and Moose kept the BC2A (Bosnia Command and Control Augmentation) system up and running. We shared spaces. |
 Our frog pond. |
 While I was there we finally succeeded in getting a tower to mount our antenna on. |
 When I got to Tuzla they had our antenna on the roof of our little C-hut. Then spring sprung and our reception dropped because of leaves. |
 I had to move us back into the attic of the HQ bldg so we could have our antenna on their roof until we could get a tower built. |
 What a thing of beauty! Reception much improved in 360 degrees! |
 Tracking the aircraft signal was much easier now. |
 As the weather improved, Brown & Root built a lot of improvements around the base. |  Beautiful picnic areas. |  Sand volleyball courts. |
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