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RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN Saturday, March 20, 2004 On March 13th 2004, Association President Martin Cruickshank returned to Afghanistan at short notice where he was assigned the task of leading the United Nations Heavy Weapons Survey Team for Jalalabad and the whole of the eastern region. After that he will continue weapons decommissioning at Kandahar. Formerly a major of the elite Fifth Guards Brigade, Croatian Army and senior instructor at the Parachute-Commando school, Sepurine, Martin was amongst the first International Volunteers to arrive in Croatia in 1991 where he participated in some of the most dangerous and difficult missions of the war, including breaking through 15km of enemy territory into the doomed city of Vukovar with medical supplies just hours before it fell on 19th November 1991. In 2001 and 2002, Martin broke the world High Altitude, High Opening (HAHO) parachuting record, dropping from a height of 40,000 feet (13,300 metres)in a dramatic descent that took over thirty minutes. Martin is married to the beautiful Vesna who teaches in Zagreb. We wish him well and that he be kept safe as he works to achieve a peaceful and secure future for the people of Afghanistan.
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