Call to Duty: Fallujah, 2004

by maxn98

During the invasion of Fallujah, Iraq in 2004, the 3rd Battalion 5th Marines were sent into one of the deadliest and most notorious districts in the city and suffered many casualties. This is a fictionalized version of their story.

1. Chapter 1

PROLOGUE

On September 11, 2001, all of America held its breath as two hijacked commercial air-liners crashed into the World Trade Center, killing nearly three thousand people in the worst attack on US soil in history. The official explanation was that terrorists from a rouge organization known as al-Qaeda had planned the attack over the course of several years, although a proper investigation was never launched. The United States then begins its "War on Terror" and invades Afghanistan. The Patriot Act is signed, allowing the government to spy on American citizens and implement martial law at any given time as a means of "security".

On March 20, 2003, the United States launches Operation Iraqi Freedom—in hopes of copying what Operation Desert Storm accomplished in the 1990s—and masses a coalition force of three hundred thousand soldiers from multiple countries. President George W. Bush authorizes the invasion without a declaration of war from Congress. The rationale for the invasion was to remove "a regime that developed and used weapons of mass destruction that harbored and supported terrorists, committed outrageous human rights abuse, and defied the just demands of the United Nations and the world."

CHAPTER ONE