In May 2001 I went to my first UN mission, UNMIBH IPTF, to Bosnia in Herzegovina.
After one week of training and testing in Sarajevo,
I was stationed in north west of Bosnia, in Mrkonjic-Grad.

I only stayed there for nine days.
I was appointed to the position of Dog Training Coordinator in RTAU, Bihac at the regional UN headquarter.

Some of the doghandlers at the local police in Bihac.
The doghandlers training center was a nightmare.
It was more sutible for rats then humans.
They had no wc or shower.
After a couple of meeting with the police commisionar he promised the doghandler
to renovate the training center.
When I left the mission the dog training center was renovated.
Local doghandlers dogtraining center.
I worked with an Egyptian doghandler for a couple of month.
He was the former Dog Training Coordinator.
UN college from Egypt, he is a doghandler i Cairo.
All field training was doing outside Bihac.
The area was cleared of mines, according to the Mine Center in Bihac.
Dogtraining at high altitude.
Some of the IPTF members of the Regional Headquarter in Bihac.
Some of the UN personal at UN headquarter in Bihac.
Myself in front of a massgrave just outside Bihac.
I am visiting a massgrave outside Bihac.
I am visiting my interpreter, Edin, and his family in Cazin.
In Februari 2002 Edin and I drove to Sweden and he stayed one week together with me and my family.
My intepretator and his family.
The UN bar and restaurant at the UN headquarter in Bihac.
The UN bar at the headquater.
Lots of mines in Bosnia. If you donīt know the area, stay on the asphalt.
Minevarning.
After 12 month in Bosnia itīs time to end the mission.
The Swedish Air Force take us back to Sweden.
One of their Hercules, absolutly no service onboard.
End of mission in May 2002.
Going home with one of Swedish Air Forces Hercules.
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