[Denver]

Originally Posted by t0rn

Denver/ Lightemup
I'd say it was pretty positive about the involvement of PSC's but also a bit of a puff piece for Aegis.

when I read the detail I was shocked both at the pic and that it had been included - you know the one I'm refering to. I'll look up the video you posted previously. I can't imagine what such pic's must do to you guys over there - do you regard them as careless/unlucky or just cringe a bit and hope/pray it never happens?

I do have some experience of 'compound life' in the Middle East (though never where there was danger really) so understand how easy it is to slip into a routine of visiting places and considering them to be 'obviously' safe. The destruction of that cafe must have shaken a lot of people and caused many departures.

Hope you guys stay safe.

Cheers T0rn, Yes you are right that 'any' Company or organisation that has the press or media travelling around with them is going to give their own perspective and obviously show thier own organisation in the best light they can. Not unique to Aegis in any way. Col Tim is a bit like that anyway and has his own inimitable style, shall we say.

Scenes such as the Blackwater incident only brings home what is waiting for anyone here (Expat, wrong ethnic tribe or innocent passer by) just around the next corner. Difficult to cope with sometimes and I still find myself closing my eyes, breathing in and bracing when I pass an abandoned car at the side of the road just waiting for it to take me to that big MTB bar in the sky!

It can also get a bit 'Groundhog Day' out here as you mention T0rn. I have 40 meters from my bed to my desk! It is good now and again when opportunities to get out and about further afield come up and I try to take them. There is more to Iraq than Baghdad and what most people see on thier televisions. However, hanging around isn't really unfamiliar territory to most of us who have been in this environment, Military, Police or similar organisation. It is often long periods of mundane routine followed by all hell letting loose and the job is the ability to react to whatever that particular hell is at the time!! Bit like Tiffanys in Rochdale at 2 am Saturday morning!! 5555555