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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World For some US troops, Kosovo peacekeeping a family affair AFP - Monday, February 22 Send IM Story Print US soldiers attend a lunch at US military base, Camp Bondsteel, in the town of Ferizaj, some 40 kilometres southeast of the capital Pristina, December 2009. Keeping the peace is a family affair at Camp Bondsteel, the biggest US military base in the Balkans, where a small but noticeable minority of the personnel are related to each other. CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo (AFP) - – Keeping the peace is a family affair at Camp Bondsteel, the biggest US military base in the Balkans, where a small but noticeable minority of the personnel are related to each other. They include parents and children, husbands and wives, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, said Sergeant Joshua Dodds -- himself serving alongside his elder brother David on this base in Kosovo. The Dodds' connection is one of 34 family links just within the 600-strong North Dakota National Guard unit based at Bondsteel, which houses 1,400 troops serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping force in this tiny European nation. Joshua and David Dodds are serving together in the same unit for the first time, but that doesn't mean it's always easy. "Sometimes people have to sit me down and ask me to lighten up on him, and, you know, they are probably right," said Sergeant First Class David Dodds, who is Joshua's commander. Still, he said he finds time to "say things to him in private and send him notes of encouragement. "He is one of my hardest workers and I think he is doing a great job over here." The military is a Dodds family tradition. David joined in 1989, Joshua soon after, and middle brother Derek has just completed a tour in the Air Force. David Dodds said the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States had a great impact on their lives. "It eventually led to our first deployments overseas. He went first, then I was called on later in 2006. "The scenes and aftermath of September 11 is indelibly etched in the hearts of all American soldiers, and had I not already been in the military I'm sure it would have spurred me to join." Camp Bondsteel, 40 kilometres (28 miles) southeast of the capital Pristina, is located on a strategic plateau in eastern Kosovo overlooking the sensitive border area with Serbia and Macedonia. The KFOR peacekeeping contingent, now 10,000 strong, has been deployed in Kosovo since a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 ejected Serbian security forces loyal to strongman Slobodan Milosevic. Two years ago Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia, a move not recognised by Belgrade which considers it a southern province. However the environment for the peacekeepers is friendly compared to other crisis areas such as Afghanistan and Iraq, acknowledged Major Dan Murphy, the spokesman for the US force here. US troops in Kosovo rotate every six months, and the last contingent from North Dakota started in late November. Many in the camp relish the family atmosphere as they serve thousands of miles from home. "I absolutely love it," said Jeremy Knight, a 26-year-old sergeant in the airborne unit who is serving with his helicopter pilot father. "I've got the family wherever I go. I could not be happier." He said that while having close family around did not make the job easier, it "makes it enjoyable, it makes the time go by quicker." Dad Steve Knight, 51, said he felt "pretty much the same." "I love having him around but (it is) not like I try to keep an eye on him or his business," he added quickly. "I see him more here than at home actually," he joked, adding that his wife was also happy they served together. Another pair seeing more of each other in Kosovo than at home are Brien and Melissa Buckentine, who were stationed in Iraq before they met and married. They are lucky in having their own sleeping quarters in an otherwise mainly male environment. Melissa, 23, an occupational therapist, said serving together made a huge difference to them. "We probably spend more time together here on the deployment then we do at home because our schedules at home are so different." Colonel David Thiele, a commanding officer at Camp Bondsteel, acknowledged it wasn't long ago that the military did not allow couples to live together. That's changing, he said. "Now they are recognising it is actually not a negative. It is a positive that couples can stay together in deployed environment, whether Afghanistan, Iraq or Kosovo." Melissa Buckentine said sharing deployment with a spouse would be even more helpful in an environment such as Iraq because of the added stress there. Husband Brien, a 30-year-old physical therapist, said having a partner at the same base made it easier to get through "the hard times" -- birthdays and holidays in particular. But there are restrictions too, such as keeping your private and military life apart. "The hardest part for me is when Melissa is having a bad day," Brien said. "As a husband you want to console her, you want to give her a hug, or you want to give her a kiss but you can't have those in the workplace." 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