Captain Paul Murphy
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On the square today we have members of the 128th Battalion who are traveling overseas to Lebanon.
What you would have seen is them coming in with their gear and the last moment where for quite a few of them were seeing off their families or the families were seeing them off.
So then the lads were getting on the bus and simply going to Dublin Airport.
Previous times where the situation was a bit more calmer in Lebanon, ideally what would happen, the personnel who were going to Lebanon would come out first and they would essentially pass in Lebanon, let's say in the airport, they would pass the personnel who are coming back home.
But then there may be instances where the personnel from Lebanon come home first and they go back out.
Let's say if you're talking about Cork, you'll go up to Dublin, there'll be a small bit of out-processing, so essentially we have passports, last minute checks, baggage, everything we need, and then you have to get the airside passes.
As you can imagine, our personnel aren't going through your normal security checks and so on, they go out onto the runway, onto a chartered flight.
and then deploy to Beirut.
From there then, depending on the situation on the ground, as we see at the moment, there may be a bridge out, there may be certain incidences of roads being damaged through, you know, maybe artillery or maybe IEDs or different things like that.
So they will find a route back down to the camp.
The personnel who will bring them to the camp will have driven the road from UN Post 245 from Camp Shamrock up to Beirut.
So they will have a good idea of the route on the way back down.
It could take anything from, when you leave Cork, it could be 12 hours on a really quick time to 18 to 24 hours, depending if you need to stay in Beirut because there's quite a bit of kinetic activity.
You go back 10 years ago, I suppose, when we had Undoff, we had Unifil, we had Mali, we had quite a number of missions.
where we're deploying NCOs, deploying corporals too.
And really that's what you're trying to impress on the privates and the troopers.
You're trying to make them understand that the training you're doing here today in Fort Davis, that is to try and translate to the area of Syria, to Lebanon, Chad, Malawi, whichever, Liberia, all these different operational environments that we've been in.
Morale is high and I suppose proof in the pudding and that is you know we have done a few smaller rotations where there's been logistics moves out to Lebanon and there's been opportunities for personnel to return early on a limited basis if they needed to and we've had very little volunteers because at this stage they want to see out the mission they're out there to do a job and as you can see the training here that they're doing today is robust and they're very competent professional soldiers so our personnel morale is high they understand the situation out there but they also understand there's a job to do and we have a huge history out there we've decades of service in Lebanon and
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