Summary
Echo reporter Tom Bevan spent two weeks in the heart of military operations in Afghanistan, talking to servicemen and women from Devon. Just three days after arriving in Afghanistan, he was out on the ground with troops and experienced firsthand the extreme conditions which they are facing during this summer tour IT was 57 degrees Celsius and the hottest day of the year in Afghanistan when I set off on my first patrol.
Little did I know as I set off through the gates of my patrol base in full body armour, in heat you can never describe, that I would be returning in a Mastiff armoured vehicle and rushing to a medical centre less than an hour later.See the full content of this document
Extract
Troops Battle Taliban - and Ferocious Heat
There are two killers in Afghanistan - the Taliban and the weather - and the latter nearly claimed the life of a fellow journalist I had been travelling with since we left Brize Norton.
Heat illness is a serious issue out here...See the full content of this document
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