Soldiers can’t wait to enter the melting pot of Chad By Sean O’Riordan THEY come from several counties, various backgrounds and have quite differing levels of experience. But the one thing they have in common is they can’t wait to get to Chad. For Cork-based Sgt Jonathan Scott, it will be his fourth overseas’ tour. He’s an engineer who will have to protect his colleagues from mines and unexploded shells. Sgt Scott knows all two well what mines can do. In 1998, on a tour of Lebanon, he was just 600 yards from one when an Israeli soldier stepped on it. It blew him to pieces, along with four other Israelis. "The intelligence we have is that we will probably encounter old Russian and Czech-made mines. Some might date back to WWII and that will make them more unstable and dangerous," the sergeant said. Private Lynn Ryan,...
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