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Early in the morning Peter arrived and came straight to our house where we were complaining about doing nothing, with zaggy translating he told us that he knew that we wanted to go on the attack but he was powerless to help as we were not in his unit and that if we wanted he would arrange a transfer to 106 HVO which was the unit that we had been with the day before, he told us that he would be next door, as he had to speak to Tate who had arrived that morning and to tell him of our decision as soon as we had made it and then he left. We now had two choices either we stay with this unit or go with Peter to 106, it didn't take long for us to decide on leaving and joining Peter's unit. Our decision had been made so we went next door to inform Peter and Tate, when we arrived in the room they were all talking and Peter immediately looked up as I entered, we told him we wanted to transfer and when were we to go, the commanders talked amongst their selves for a couple of minutes and then Tate told us that we could go straight away after we had returned the item's we had been issued with back and that included weapons. We left the room and went straight back to tell the others what had happened and after explaining we all started to pack, it didn't take long as we lived out of our bags after what had happened in Laslovo and we were not going to lose our equipment again, we went downstairs where the second in command was and gave him everything that belonged to his unit, we were not left without weapons which was not an ideal situation this close to the front line. Within ten minutes everyone had handed their equipment back and we all left to go to where Peter's car was, the rest of the men put their bags down while I went in and told Peter that we were ready whenever he was, I then went back outside to the others. We waited and shortly Peter came out, he opened the boot so that we could put our bags in and then got into the car, it was a very tight squeeze but we managed it. The driver reversed the car out and we were on our way not regretting for one minute the decision to leave the unit, we were now going to be with 106 who seemed to be full of fight and hatred for the enemy, again the front line was putting it's welcoming hand out to me, that was the only place where you knew what was what.
We arrived at the base and Peter went in first to explain to the commander and see if he would accept us into his unit, three of us were professionals so he would've been stupid to refuse and shortly we were asked i, the commander introduced himself as Kirk and that he had also been all over the front lines of Osijek, he told us that he had been in Bosnia for the past five months, in fact ever since the UN had arrived in Osijek in force and that he would accept us as long as we got on with his men. After Peter had left Kirk where we would be sleeping while we were in his unit, it seemed we were to have a small house all to ourselves, he told us that we would not be doing anything for the next couple of days as he had no weapons for us so we should just wait and enjoy the free time. The rest of the day was spent unpacking and trying to get the house into some sort of order as it was not very clean, we all decided where we were going to sleep and sorted our own bed spaces out, while we were cleaning a girl cam in and told zaggy that her name was Isabelle and that she slept in the front bedroom, 
"oh well, zaggy is alright because he is the only one who speaks fluent Croatian" I said out loud, 

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