More great “unknown” stories. When I tell people that elements of Berlin Brigade served in the Balkan peace-keeping force they always say “I never heard of that.” And I reply “Exactly. You never heard of it because they did a great job and kept the peace.”
I was interested in it because of the Berlin connection, but also because I have a cousin-in-law who was a career Canadian Army signals EM and later officer. He served on a number of peacekeeping operations and getting between people who wanted to kill each other with military weapons was not easy.
In a way Task Force Able Sentry was full circle from the early days of the Cold War in Germany. The British Military Liaison Mission, counterparts to our USMLM Potsdam, helped train the first Norwegian peacekeepers for the UN.
-- rwr