Well, nothing like that ever happened in the 8+ years since IFOR/SFOR arrived. In fact, there's not been a single American casualty to hostile action. In places where real Islamics hang out--like Afghanistan & Iraq & Pakistan & Saudi, etc, we're being attacked. Even now that NATO has withdrawn and turned Bosnia over to the EU with only 7,000 troops, there's been no attacks. For you as a junior leader, though, its good that you got into the habit of maintaining the combat readiness of your troops even though the situation you feared never materialized.
Really? Well aint that something. Funny, I remember at Eagle Base, those photos were given over to the Russian liaisons, two full bird colonels who took it to Uglavich, beside the half finished electric generator complex with the small 30 man US post beside it, and then went to brief the quarreling Serbs. Within a week the Serb military put an end to the quarrel between Pavolich (?sp) and the other serbs and the serbs were quickly also asking us for train and assist.
For a fact, the Bosnian islamics had a Ukrainian freighter (except it was Egyptian with a Ukrainian flag) arrive in June 1997 with 11 T-55s that they were unloading for them, as Clinton was handing them M60A3s. Further, for your FACT, there were 4 armed stand-offs with the Bosnian muslims in 1997 alone and 2 in 1996 some of which include fire. In the British sector they busted a Muslim base doing dry fire exercises on SFOR aircraft flying overhead. They got busted and the British were ordered to confiscate their equipment. The II Corp's commander told his men you give it up over your dead bodies. Thus started the first stand off. We were ordered to go in on the SE side of Tuzla to hit a Muslim post there that had similar equipment.
Seems you know a lot without knowing a lot. The Muslims were pulling mines out of their internal minefields and claiming them as the "stored" stuff while moving the good ones out to the border for their offensive (that thankfully didn't happen). The mud was so fresh on them they were still moist.
In 1996, the Muslims moved troops "settlers" into a border village that was abandoned in Serbska Republic. To defend themselves, these "settlers" brought in RPGs, 50 cal machineguns and 82mm mortors, every day home defense. Anyways, eventually they got forced to retreat, so they gathered up a huge force of militants and civilians and headed back, while the serbs called out their militia. US/Russian forces got put in the valley in between to keep both sides apart, while the two sides exchanged fire over their heads (this happened a month before we deployed in). We used black hawks and rotor wash to eventually displace the Muslim crowd and militants.
Apparently a lot of things happened of which you don't know.