Surviving Baghdad’s War Zone with a News Crew 🤯 It wasn’t the front line, but it was every bit as dangerous. Less than two years after serving in combat, Melvyn Downes returned to Baghdad, this time not as a soldier on the offensive, but as Special Forces protection for a news crew. Blending in as civilians, armed only with concealed weapons, Melvyn and his small team became the unseen shield between journalists and chaos. From bomb blasts to ambush zones, he describes what it was like to move