UNProfor, 1995

I served a 5 month period in Bosnia with UNPROFOR (United Nations protection force) in 1995. My contingent: 1 (NL/BE) VN Logistics and Transport battalion. My rotation: L8. I was stationed in Busovaca (Busovača, Bosnian-Croat area). I drove countless kilometers in an ambulance as a driver/medic. Our job was to provide medical assistance to convoys. These convoys provided humanitarian aid for refugees and logistics for Dutch military compounds in Bosnia.

See this link for photos.

Scans of the UN route / roadmap see here. Update, August 2007 ! the scans are now stitched together in 1 raster image.

Links to other sites are also available. Other people made much better looking sites so check them out.

I found the original WordPerfect files for the "Rotatie Geitenpad" magazine. See this book page for the contents. It's still work in progress though ... www.unprofor.nl was registered by someone here in Holland but not active. Recently (2008-12) I was able to register the domain ! cool, my first .nl TLD.

Here are some scans of a comic book: "De blauwhelmen" of Marc Westerlain with the lead character: "Sarah Spits":

Here is the famous 'In Flanders fields' poem.