[Ret10Echo]

Operation Frozen Trojan, Quebec Province, Canada: Did the usual movement away from the patrol base to make my HF shot. Found a suitable location and the security guy and I start getting gear out. Mind you the snow is pretty deep so everything is balanced on snowshoes to keep it from disappearing. Just as we get most of the junk out and are going to start stinging antenna wire, the Canadian OpFor on snowmobiles come bombing up through the forest. We pancake and wait for them to move on, but no dice, they are hanging out. Not close enough to notice but too close to be tromping around. Contact window is fast approaching so we gotta do something. Figure we can string the antenna a couple inches above the snow with a counterpoise and at least receive the BTB. Making like moles we manage to crawl around and get everything hooked up and running to receive. End up having to do the same thing to get the shot out…OpFor sat there for about two hours. Needless to say T.S. wasn’t too happy when we finally got back to the patrol base waaaaay late….but hey, I kept you out of the corridor….