Thirteen burly tattooed blokes

greeted me in reception when I arrived this morning all in to be deployed out to Iraq & Afghanistan. Slight bizarre finding them plus a mound of kit bags strewn across what's ostensibly an admin office. They spend half half the morning signing all kinds of forms, then loitering whilst we sort out all of the travel documentation, visas etc. before they amble off to Heathrow and on to their destination. Nothing like any other recruitment I've ever done before...the same point illustrated again in the afternoon when I had an interesting meeting with a company who supply NATO cleared security, logistics & infrastructure personnel predominantly from the Balkan states. Could be very useful if we win some of the major contracts we're bidding for as we'll need a larger source of candidates. Need to do a bit more scrutiny on the supply chain so may have to go out to Romania to verify a few things....