You contemplated returning to the ambush to help your colleagues, was that the right thing to do?
You fight for your mates and everything else but you know there's always this balance of risk and you now what you would try and do is keep some eyes on, you know go into a running point, perhaps put in an observation post and keep some eyes on and you call in for some support. But we didn't have any communications equipment that worked you know, don't get me wrong, there was nothing wrong with the equipment but I think it was probably being jammed because you know everything was working for the rest of the day. It was working as we started the journey, then as soon as we got into the ambush area suddenly it stopped working you know and there were no bullet holes in it you know so whatever happened to it, it didn't physically work when it counted. So we were sort of stuck there with no communications with the outside world. And six of us, and even if we did go back in two would have had to stay with the vehicles. Because driving back here would have been absolutely suicidal you know. So there were just all these other facts that were going through our minds really, really quickly as well. And then you start thinking well, ok I saw a car coming across from the other route you know we're going have to do something to that. There's people with rocket propane, were going to have to neutralize those immediately and there's the guys with the machine guns, there going to have to get it too. And you just sort of prioritizing who you are going to have to go in there and ultimately give the good news to before you go and get your guys out. So it was a nice sort of relieving moment when they came out and we thought yeah we never have to put our coach to the test.
