It's All Greek to Me

by OTwo Shot

A CIA blacksite is compromised and 4 operatives are in danger of being overrun by a warlord terrorizing Egypt. Paul Carson leads a small Air Force unit tasked with their extraction. With the CIA what you are told is never the whole story, and Paul must adapt his mission to get out with the objectives alive. Cammie, Bex, Macey, Liz, Preston and Zack appear late in the story.

1. Mission Brief

Authors note: This is my first narrative story. I wrote the entire thing in a single day. I did some minor editing when uploading and separating the story out into chapters.

10/6/13: So, I re-read and subsequently found a lot of things that I want to fix. I will be editing/adding to this until otherwise stated.

A few years back I was a team leader for a Pararescue unit attached to a MARSOC (Marine Special Operations Command) operation. We were tasked with evacuation of a 4 man ground team. These orders were listed as classified and as such no details about the ground team are presented. No names, no reasons for why they are operating in country, no branch listing which probably means they were probably from one of the acronymed organizations.

FBI/DEA/CIA/ATF/FDA

FDA wasn't likely as I have never heard of military intervention on behalf of any operations for the FDA. Mostly because the FDA is only allowed to operate in the US. Since we were extracting the team from Egypt it wasn't likely that the ATF or DEA would be involved either. The FBI was a possibility, but I was putting my money on it being a CIA Op that needed some help.

CIA spooks definitely had a significant amount of courage and intelligence. My unit had spent the last half decade working with Force Recon Marines, Navy DEVGRU SEAL teams, and Army Rangers. Getting them out of trouble and evacuating wounded personnel. But these CIA operatives were a whole different breed. They always had it in mind that their mission wasn't ending even if their cover was blown and they were shot. We go in as the last effort to bring them out.

Our initial orders were given to the 6 leads in our 2 bird team. Me the lead PJ, my second in charge of the second chopper, the two pilots and their co-pilots. We mapped our route the helicopters would take into the city. Unfortunately the best location we found to set down was 3 block away. So we would fast rope onto the roof of the target building, evacuate the objectives 3 blocks east and exfil into our helicopters.

After the initial briefing our C.O. held my second lieutenant , Jack, and I back and called in the 3 other PJs in our unit. We went over the mission parameters and he gave us as much information as he had. He disliked classified ops. We all did, there was never enough information and what you did have scared you. He then opened the remaining file. There was only a single page, and it was blacked out. Almost every detail redacted, undoubtedly by the same organization that sent the ground team in initially. The only words still legible on the document were 4 names. And this scared us even more.

Rebecca Baxter

Cameron Morgan

Elizabeth Sutton

Macey McHenry