Mines
That Brown Girl is mine. No, this post is not about some sob love story or Michael Jackson but about Mines the fauji types. Now, you may wonder why an Infantry Officer is writing on things that are the Engineers domain. Well I leave it to you to decide. My first experience with Mines was in preparation for a Minelaying Competition (didnt participate btw). But anyway could handle them. In those times, the most common ones were ones that would blow up your foot if you stepped on them and those which would jump up and kill you if you got entangled in its wires or stepped on them. The NMM 14 and the M16 respectively. Sometime later, the unit moved to the LC and we came to know that except for the beaten paths, one couldn't move anywhere because of the extensive minefields laid by both the Pakis and own side dating back to 65. Since our AoR comprised both sides of the erstwhile Cease Fire Line, these minefields were unrecorded. Anyway, so during our initial days itself, some bright sp