What Keeps You In?

i was 18 years old when i joined the army. I remember arriving in london derry and being told, get your uniform on. Your company's going on an operation to night ad. You'll be commanding your platoon - yow would have been the target of the are for sure,. We were ging to goi to an ambush on a bridge on the road that ran out ards a the glen shane pass which was a very notable place. And it was an extraordinary thing to do. But, ya, you were thrown in at the deep end, and it was a one of those circumstances way, i guess you sink or swim, but people wanted you to succeed