doug beattie served three tours in the country.t of difficult scenes, i suppose, for anybody to watch, but particularly, no doubt, for people who knew the country, like yourself. yeah, they were images of desperation, they were images of panic, they were images of an abandoned country, um, and people desperate to flee it. so desperate that they would hang onto an aircraft that's about to take off. on doug beattie�*s first tour, the fighting was intense. seen here in 2006, when nato troops fought the taliban over 14 days at garmsir in helmand province. his actions earned him the military cross. back up. bring it forward and the gun. gunfire. tell him he has achieved as much as he's going to achieve. we have no more to support him with. so he's probably best he's cleared what he can so come back now. tell him he must do it orderly. not to run back but to patrol back. we own this ground. nine soldiers, eight men and one woman, from northern ireland lost their lives during the war in afghanistan. there were a57 deaths of uk armed force