Prologue-Rolling steel
A lone tank patrolled a desert in Iraq during the ongoing peacekeeping operations going on after operation iraqi freedom
"I spy with little eye something beginning with S" said our bored driver trinity and as I sighed in exasperation and replied like a thousand times before "is it sand trin?" peering down at her from my position behind her "yes, how did you know?" I stared at the back of her head and said in a bored tone" because you've asked the same damned question about a thousand times now" she said back nonchalantly "well of course sam we're in a sand storm".
flashback
"ok guys we are on patrol again" Ben said with a enthusiastic tone in his voice which I replied with "let me guess, we are going to take the tank and drive for a few klicks then come back and do it again?" I said with all the energy I could muster for this monotonous task,"i think it will be nice to do something" said trinity with her usual tone and charles groaned at having to sit still doing nothing.
"and why did we think going alone would be a good idea?" I asked ben curiously, "well it gets us up and about" he replied, "but that doesn't mean we should be alone" I replied in a confused tone looking at ben who was talking on the radio to base, "ok guys we still have a bit of time before we get out of this storm but I can't reach command because of the sand" ben stated looking down at the three of us"so basically we can't see 5 meters in front of us and have to keep driving"charles said fiddling with his rifle"something like that charles" ben said causing me to look back and ask "hey ben mind if we put some music on to help get us through this boredom" as charles reached over to the box of Cd's we have "ac/dc anyone?", "no, how about war by that Edwin guy" I asked as I handed him the Cd.
The lone tank rolled on, towards an uncertain future but for now they roll on
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