Soldiers stationed in Cyprus often refer to the experience as “peacekeeping at its lowest level,” and indeed Zegarac spends much of his time charting patterns in the low-level game of inches. “Every week there’s easily a few hundred violations that occur,” he says. “Each one of them has to be recorded, and if there’s a pattern being established, then we see if this is something deliberate.” The solution may not be ramming an armoured car through bunker walls, but a Canadian will be there to improvise a fix. The status quo will be maintained. The mission will go on.