It was early in the morning, I woke up in my sleeping bad under the tent my team was living in. I look towards my teammate, Matthew, he's part of my squad. He's trigger happy, especially loves to gamble and can't go anywhere without his lucky gold ring.
Me? My name is Joshua, squad unit Task Force 601, my squad consists of Matthew, Jack, Alex and Rick. Rick is the sniper on our unit, he prefers the PSG1 sniper rifle, despises people who can't do their job right and doesn't believe in luck.
Jack is an old friend of mine, we go way back to the 1980s. He's not the one to argue with, prefers to just rush in without thinking it through and is impatient.
Alex is the heavy specialist on our squad unit. If you want to know about explosives, he's the one to ask. He's pretty strong too, don't try to beat him in an arm's wrestling contest, he'll beat you. He's also the leader of our squad.
Personally, I don't like how he acts as our squad leader, he's a novice at giving us positions. He mostly prefers thinking before acting and he hates Jack for his lack of patience.
Jack looks at me with a smile and says, "Hey, time to wake up, captain wants to debrief us at the LZ". I rub my eyes to shake off the remaining drowsiness and grabbed my rifle, an M4A1, standard issue for us marines.
We head out for the LZ where an UH-1Y Huey was waiting for us. Alex looked at us and yelled, "Glad to see you're awake Sergeant Joshua, sleep well?" "Eh, the night was peaceful except for the constant gunfire in the distance" I replied.
"I couldn't sleep at all...the guns kept me up all night" said Matthew. I turned towards Matthew and said, "You'll get used to it Corporal." Then I turned to face Alex and asked, "What's the mission this time?" Alex, looking at my hazel coloured eyes, said, "A mission fit for us, we're assigned to Assault Unit 246 for a little bit to help keep off the fire...and to defend an important package that's coming for them."
I was curious about the package, so I asked him about it. He replied with "I don't know, but command tells me it's important, probably ammo, I heard that they were running out of ammo recently." "Or it could be vehicles such as a M1A1 abrams tank?" said Matthew.
I turned towards the UH-1Y and asked, "So we're riding this heli towards the unit?" "Yep, hope we'll have a smooth ride, I don't want to be shot down by their SAM sites." Alex replied. We made our way onto the heli, the blades started to spin and we were lifted off the ground and heading north to our first battle in days.
"So what's the approximate time we'll reach the LZ?" asked Rick. "In about an hour I'm guessing" replies Alex. A couple of minutes later, we hear a large boom from the distance. "What is that?" Jack said squinting at the object coming towards us.
"Oh my god, it's a missile! The enemy has SAM sites near our base! Take cover!" Alex shouts. "God damn it! Where CAN we take cover? We're gonna get hit!" screams Rick.
BOOM is what we heard as the second pilot shouts, "We've been hit! I repeat we've been hit! Mayday mayday! This is bravo 2-1, we've been hit by a SAM missile!" As the Huey keeps spinning with smoke coming out of the damaged spot, I noticed the LZ was about a mile away.
The heli was about 500 meters from the ground, we decided to jump at about 150 meters from the ground. "Pilot! Try to get the heli close to the LZ as you possible can!" screamed Alex. "I'll try! But she's hard to handle!" yelled the pilot.
"I'll take control of the heli! You guys get yourselves to safety! I don't want all of us to die!" yelled the co-pilot. Alex turned towards the co-pilot and said, "We're not leaving a man behind! If you're going down, we'll go down with you!"
Matthew turned towards Alex and said, "HELL NO! I am NOT staying here when this thing crashes!" I shouted, "Enough talk! Let's just grab the parachutes, co-pilot, I'll pass you a parachute, if you have enough time, jump!" We all grabbed the parachutes, Jack gave one to the pilot while I gave the last one to the co-pilot.
"We're just about 150 meters! JUMP FOR IT!" yelled the co-pilot. "okay! EVERYBODY JUMP NOW!" We all jumped one at a time, we managed to land just about 300 meters away from the LZ.
As we all landed safely, minus Matthew who pulled his parachute at the wrong time, we saw the co-pilot jump out at the last second before the Huey hit the ground and explode in a ball of fire. What was left of it is just metal scraps.
I shouted for the co-pilot, but no response...I ran up towards where he landed to see him lying dead with a propeller blade stabbed into his back. I ripped off his tag and went back towards the squad.
We then turned towards our goal and started running with our runs ready to shoot. About 20 minutes later, we heard the screams and gunshots of Assault Unit 246 over at the LZ. We rushed in to see them being pushed back by the enemies.
Alex ran towards one of the soldiers and asked him, "What is the situation?" The guy looked back at him and yelled, "We're down half a dozen men! Tango's been shooting at us for hours, we haven't gotten a supply drop in weeks! We're gonna die in hours! When is that supply drop coming in?" Alex looked back at us and replied, "Soon soldier, soon".
We started to head towards the base. Commander Augustine greeted us at the front. "Glad to see you guys made it in one piece!" said Augustine cheerfully. "Ha! I knew they had SAM sites near us! I just never thought they would see us! So, did you guys receive the drop?" replied Alex. Augustine looked towards him and said, "yep, we got it at the back, a whole lot of ammo, probably will last us months". Alex looked back at us and said, "Jack! Joshua! Make your way to the front and push the tangos back! Rick, give the squad sniper support, Matthew take the pilot to medical, then head to the front with Joshua and Jack." We all replied with "ROGER!".
As we head out to the front, I thought to myself that this plan wouldn't work...my gut tells me this, I just have to fight back the hardest I can, to the last bullet, to the last man standing. I look towards Jack, carrying a M240, heads towards a blockade and sets up his M240 with a biped attachment and starts firing.
I come right next to him and attach a holographic sight onto my M4A1 and started firing towards the oncoming tangos. Hopefully we can hold them off for now, giving us time to call in reinforcements. "ALEX! ARE WE GONNA CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS?" I yelled at Alex. Alex turned towards me and yelled, "I JUST CALLED FOR BACKUP! THEY WILL BE ARRIVING IN AN HOUR! THEY'RE BRINGING IN A MH-53J PAVE LOW!" I turned back towards the group of tangos being shredded by Jack's M240.
I look up towards the sky to see an enemy hind heading towards our position. I yell at Alex saying, "ALEX! ENEMY HIND INCOMING!" Alex looked towards the sky to see the enemy hind firing upon our position. Alex grabbed a stinger missile and heads outside and fires towards the hind. The missile almost missed the hind, hitting its tail, we watched it spinning towards the enemy camp.
As the spinning hind crash into the enemy base, causing it to explode, we watch as the remaining tangos retreat. We all cheered while Rick picked off the remaining troopers willing to fight down to their last breath.
We thought it was over, but the war has just begun...
Chapter Two will be out either tomorrow or Wednesday!
Author's note: This was updated, the new helicopter (UH-1Y Huey) was given to me by shadow332. Remember, review my stories! Especially if you think the information I put on them is wrong! If you don't, I will hunt you down and ban hamma you!
