Flight of the comms

摘要

Installing a new capability to enhance information systems in Afghanistan has its dangers - just ask Captain Steve Robinson, leader of DE&S' Project Kestrel installation team. "We were stuck in Patrol Base 1 when it and the surrounding compounds were attacked at the same time," he recalls. "The firefight to stop them getting into PB 1 lasted close to two hours, with the insurgents getting to within 50 metres of the camp." It illustrates some of what the CIS 4 team from Engineering Operations - part of the Internal Services Provider within DE&S' Information Systems and Services (ISS) -experienced as they installed the Kestrel communications network at sites across Helmand Province.