Fighting for Their Lives: Pitched Into Battle in Afghanistan As Skirmishes Continue Over Whether Uk Troops Are Adequately Supplied Against the Taliban the Soldiers Themselves Share Their Experience
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Private Daniel Chisholm, 18, Turiff, Aberdeenshire
"Being shot at is a really good way of bonding with people, " the young soldier says, his flash of dark humour summing up the mood among the young men from the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) now at war with the Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.See the full content of this document
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Fighting for Their Lives: Pitched Into Battle in Afghanistan As Skirmishes Continue Over Whether Uk Troops Are Adequately Supplied Against the Taliban the Soldiers Themselves Share Their Experience
The teenager is among 9000 British troops stationed on the front line. More and more of their comrades are coming home in body bags. Chisholm has been stationed here since May - his first posting since passing out from Catterick in March.
Most other lads in Turiff went to work on the oil rigs, but he saw the armed forces as a chance to escape the quiet town and travel. "I always wanted to join the army, " he says. "I didn't really want so be a ...See the full content of this document
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