This is some of the extreme tasks taken on by the Field Service Officer (F.S). In the construction of a teams site. Here we are in North western Cambodia in 1991 to support the local area of operations all the equipments must be flown in and you see the generator being under slung by a MI17 Helicopter, it's being flown by the aviation company Skylink. Its only the skilled flying by the pilot and the direction of ourselves below the ton of generator equipment finally gets into the back of the pick up.That is only the beginning the field service generator mechanics and electricians then must align it into the pre-built shed and connect her up to provide much needed power to the 4 or 8 and even up to 16 military observers that will occupy the team site for the duration of the UN mission.The Australians and the German Civilian police officer along with the F.S team had a well earned cold one after the full team site installation was finished and on power up we made sure the fridge was plugged in first so the beer was cold.This team site was situated circa 50kms from the main provincial town of Sisaphon, Thma Puok View Larger Map and was manned mainly by Civpol officers from the Australian Federal Police, their time there was not wasted, they educated local police, built classrooms and of course upgraded the local lockup and without saying had the best Bar around for miles with Fosters on tap.Nowadays Thma Puok is a forgotten little town that still has a small referral hospital and a very poor agricultural community. The children are grown up now but they still remember a great iron bird carrying a big box came to fly in their sky bringing the Australian Federal police team site members and Field Service specialists.
