It was an eventful few days spent in some sweltering temperatures in the back of the heavily armoured tracked vehicles

During our time spent with the Warthogs we saw the impressive manoeuvrability of the vehicles, and saw firsthand their ability to cover a variety of terrain, with the help of the Engineers bridging the gaps over canals and wadis.

we spent some time out with the Grenadier Guards and the Afghan Local Police, we also happened to be there at the same time as the 12 Mechanized Brigade Commander Brigadier Doug Chalmers.

A few minutes later we were filming the Warthogs mid- recovery of a vehicle from along its banks when they came under fire. Although the contact was fairly short lived and no one was injured.

The temperatures that they have to work in far exceed the ones outside, hitting

the 70s for them on a regular basis.

The kitchen and the food is an important source of morale for everyone at Clifton,

and there is always lots of banter and laughter going on in the cookhouse.

The washing facilities (known as ‘dhobi’) consisted of a washing machine cunningly disguised as a cement mixer .

Just in case people back home think that the guys and girls out here have got it easy though, you only have to watch the patrols coming back in, with some of them going

out 2 or three times a day, and some for two or three days at a time. You can hear the gunfire and explosions going off in the surrounding areas, so it's never too far

from anyone’s mind here that we’re still in Afghanistan