A couple of days ago at 10 am we exchanged fire. There were several incoming machine gun bursts from a distance. Our guys fired back, then took the clients to safety. My site was approximately 2 Km away from the contact, down in the walleye. Although my position was above that, on the top of the mountain, I couldn’t really see what was going on. When I heard the gunfire burst, and shortly after on the radio some of my fellow team leaders reported, “We are under fire!” So I grabbed the main client by his body armour and covered him behind the construction equipment. Then I ordered the vehicles to roll up. The client climbed out, so I took him back behind the cover again. I ordered my Gurkha second-in-command (2IC) to take all the clients to the next police post about one km away from our site. Part of my team and I remained, to take care of the million dollar heavy machinery. I ordered them to get into firing position around the machines. “Safety catch off!” I shouted. “Don’t cock your weapon!” Everything went pretty well. All the other teams drove past us loaded with scared clients. Down on the walleye a couple kilometers away our Quick Response Force (QRF) handled the attackers. Finally they were gone.
It was short but intense contact. Luckily no casualties; no one injured, and a few bullet marks on a couple of vehicles. After an hour and a half everything went back to the normal daily routine.
My teams didn’t fire a single shot, but some of the teams claimed they had fired thousands of rounds in a few minutes. This is a bullshit scam, because now the company will have to replace the “fired” rounds. But then, the company eventually has to buy new rounds. So these teams will sell their pilfered ammunition back to us. When we looked for cartridges that day, we hardly found a hundred on our side.
One of my fellow team leaders said, ”They’re a bunch of criminals.“
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