Collection of personal photos - Dutch Merc in Croatia, 1992+

[2RHPZ]

http://members.home.nl/satnikray/_private/satnikray01.htm

[2RHPZ]

A small gallery of Croatina man - personal photos:

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/7044/next.htm

[SiFiOn]

Those men must have had a hard time over there.
I'm just wondering what moved them to volunteer for such a dirty war...

[2RHPZ]

Those men must have had a hard time over there.
I'm just wondering what moved them to volunteer for such a dirty war...

Go to the parental directory http://members.home.nl/satnikray/ He wrote couple of lines about it ...

[SiFiOn]

Yeah, I allready knew about this. But there must have been something stronger in my opinion. When I see that people in Sudan are being slaughtered as we speak, it makes me angry, but not that angry that I decide to volunteer for such a filthy war.

Oh, here some more pics of the 'First Dutch':

http://members.home.nl/platoon118/Part1/page2.htm

[cchccrowder]

i noticed in some of the pics on the pages in the end that some people were armed with weapons like MG 34's and Bren guns. Knowing that those weapons survived WW2 and then were used again is pretty amazing. good pics.

cchccrowder

[SiFiOn]

i noticed in some of the pics on the pages in the end that some people were armed with weapons like MG 34's and Bren guns. Knowing that those weapons survived WW2 and then were used again is pretty amazing. good pics.

cchccrowder

In the Balkan war of the nineties they used a great variety of weapons, from WWII to the most modern weapons from that time...

[KML]

I don't believe it was such a "dirty war" in the early years.
in the book "Sniper" several ex USMC scout snipers, and ex British Army snipers recout their tales of training and leading Croation snipers.


just some thoughts

[b.scheller]

http://members.home.nl/satnikray/images/Dutch%20Armysmall.jpg

I just realized I have the same uniform jacket as this guy (http://img77.photobucket.com/albums/v235/bscheller/DU01.jpg)...mine is also kinda small...

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I'm guessing he volunteered as a soldier of fortune, because his life had been taking such a bad turn. He wrote, on his webpage, that after the army, he couldn't hold a job, and he ended up serving a couple of short jail sentences. After leaving jail for the last time, he ended up relocating from his hometown to Amsterdam. Where he began to slip back into bad influences. As he makes it seem, the army was the only thing he was really good at and liked alot. perhaps thats why he joined up?

[SiFiOn]

@ B.scheller : it could be , I really don't know.

[Upfrontreporting]

KML wrote:


I don't believe it was such a "dirty war" in the early years.
in the book "Sniper" several ex USMC scout snipers, and ex British Army snipers recout their tales of training and leading Croation snipers.



The war was "dirty" from day one, just look at all the various reports, documentaries, personal memories that are around.
I know both Bosniaks as well as Serbs that were forced to flee already in the beginning of the war (ethnically cleansed)

KML: Do you have a link with full info and/or an ISBN number for the book you mention?


regards
Upfrontreporting