I was 12 year old when NATO declared war on Russia, when the Russians nuked Paris, killed 80000 people. Charlie was 19 then, he looked mom in the eye and said "I'm going to show Ivan a lesson". When Vince, my brother and I woke up the next morning, he was gone. Charlie was one tough SOB, Vince and I was sure he was going to teach Ivan a lesson like he said. Three month later, mom sent us to grandpa's house. We knew he was dead. Grandpa told us about it. He was in Kharg Island, Iran. He was leading an advance when Ivan got the jump on his squad. He popped out to throw a grenade and a piece of shit 500 metres away popped him in the eye. Everyone was worried about mom; she lost dad in Iraq, and her grandpa in Vietnam. She pulled through though.
When China invaded Suez, Vince and I talked, we talked a lot. We were both eighteen now, old enough for recruitment. But if we died, mom wouldn't pull through. We didn't want to join the army, honestly too dumb for the Air Force, there wasn't enough action in the Coast Guard and half the Navy needs the combination to Davy Jones Locker. So we joined the Marines, just like Charlie did.
We couldn't bear to tell mom. We left her a note. We couldn't let the Chinese win, they'd cut 90% of our trade already, and those Russian's were gonna fucking pay for taking away Charlie.
My name is William Crowe; this is the story of me and my twin brother Vince.
All the weeks of hiding in our room, plotting how to join, we finally pulled it off, we placed the note on the kitchen table, then left at night, we practically slept on the train, when we got to Los Angeles, we enrolled, we thought we would have to pass a physical and weeks of training, they just signed our names down and said 6.30 don't be late. When we came back from sleeping with a bunch of friendly homeless guys in town, I'll never forget them. When we came back, we saw the USS Essex for the first time. When they said Aircraft Carrier, I expected them to be bigger, but we still marvelled at the AH-1Z's, F35's and RCB's.
One day we heard the general quarters alarm.
That's were the story begins.