Corporal Barrie Mitchell of Buckland Road, Leyton, inspects the identity of civvies entering the base.
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are marked in green.
This patrol was relatively safe; the Protestants are rarely openly hostile to the army. But all of us knew that a Land-Rover had been fired on in the same area just 24 hours ago.
And Belfast is still a war-torn city with "sleeping policemen" -- a ramp designed to slow speeding traffic-- bricked up derelict houses and bomb sties littering the roads which divide the two communities.
The first stop the patrol made was an "illegal" UDA drinking club.
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Jonathan Brind