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After we had finished we sat down as there was nothing to do until supper time, Issabelle told us what times the meals were and where we had to go to eat them, I decided to leave them to go and see what the situation was around us from Kirk as I knew he spoke a little english, from what I understood of what he told me it seemed that our position was like a thumb print on the map with the enemy surrounding us on three sides and the village Brvnik would be very important if we managed to take it, he told me that his unit was a recce unit as they were the only unit that was attacking and that all his men were good fighters and that he respected them all, if we were to stay with his unit then his men would have to get used to us and visa-versa,as people came in Kirk introduced them to me especially his second in command who was called Tim, Kirk told me he was not much of a fighter but he was never afraid if he had to fight and that if we had any problems and he wasn't there then we should go to Tony. Once I had found about as much as I could I went back with a map that Kirk had lent me to explain to the rest what was happening and where, zaggy was preoccupied with Isdabelle but everyone else listened intently to what I told them after I had finished they looked at each other and smiled as if to say that this was what they wanted and we were right in the middle of it, I could see that Alan was over the moon at the thought of being on the front line again and quite honestly so was I even though I was still thinking of Paula.
After a quiet night's sleep we decided to ask Kirk if we could go and pick up Docy as he was a combat trained medic and would be invaluable here as they had no real doctors in the local hospital and also because Docy was a professional soldier, Kirk agreed and he got one of his men to drive us there. We got to the base in Visnijavac that Docy had already left for Bosnia so instead of going straight back we went to collect some items that Alan had left behind and to take anything that belonged to Docy, we also decided to relieve the unit of anything else that could be useful to us and one thing that I knew that I wanted was a sleeping bag as I was sure that my bed in Ostra Luka had bugs and I couldn't get to sleep as I was itching to much, I saw a sleeping bag unrolled so I rolled it up and took it with me, it was a pity that there were no weapons lying around or we would have taken them as well. We packed everything into the car and then went to the command house where we could use the telephone, after we had all finished we left as we wanted to catch the ferry before eight as that was when they stopped working. There was one thing that I had to do on our way back and that was to stop so that I could see Paula and explain what had happened, we stopped outside her flat and I ran upstairs, thankfully she was there and within five minutes I had explained everything. 
"how long have you got before you go back" she asked me,
"two minutes" as I started walking towards the door,
"why have you got to go back so quickly"
"because we have to catch the ferry as we are to be back before ten, I'm sorry but I will be back in ten days and as soon as I find a phone I will give you a call" I said,
and before she knew what was happening I had kissed her and started off down the stairs, I got back into the car with the men asking me what she had said about me being on the front line again and I told them that we didn't have enough time to discuss it. We arrived back at base at nine so we were early as Kirk's car wasn't there we went straight to our house to find Docy already there, he explained, 
"Tate brought me to Bosnia and handed me over to a Hungarian officer, Peter I think his name was, he brought me to meet Kirk and took me to the hospital to meet everyone there" he told us as he was unpacking, 
we had been in Osijek to fetch him and he was already on his way, at least he was here now and that was all that mattered, we now had quite a good little unit with it's own doctor, everybody was happy even if we could hear shells dropping not far from us. We all decided to go to bed as we didn't know what tomorrow might bring and we all needed rest. 

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