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A day in the life of a soldier at war

Published: 11:29, 10 March 2009

Updated: 16:09, 02 May 2019

Video: See how Corporal
Lekh Rai lives and what goes on in the compunds.

We all hear about the fighting between Kent's troops and the
Taliban in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.

Yet many of us hear little about what day to day life is
actually like for soldiers living in the battleground.

Corporal Lekh Rai is Six Platoon One Section Commander in B
Company of the Folkestone-based Second Battalion of Royal Gurkha
Rifles.

Living in Patrol Base Woqab to the north of the district's
centre, he is part of the effort to hold off insurgent forces to
allow Afghan civilians to get on with their lives safely to the
south of the base.

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