Part II: Revenge
November 9, 2010- Those Yuke sons of bitches! Bombing innocent people, but then those air force idiots did the same thing so…I wish I knew what was really going on. Despite our victory in the Pacific a week ago, the media keeps talking about those "Four Wings of Sand Island. If I have to hear one more thing about them...they, the media and 90 of the population that ain't in the Marines or Navy sees them as the only pilots in the world. Here's a headline for ya. Fuck Sand Island…bunch of showboats. But the Yukes are really pissed at us now. My brother tells me that on the first day, the Yukes didn't even bother to put up a fight. Now, they're all pissed off About time they showed some fighting spirit; I was getting bored.
November 10, 2010- Bethany talks to people where she works, and she ran into a female Air Force Pilot sometime yesterday. She was talking about all the degrees she had and everything she had to study. Aeronautical engineering my ass; you don't need that crap to fly an airplane. They think they're smarter than us...In other news, the Shark-Candy affair has continued to grow; as far as their concerned. Regardless, we're still under repairs, but we look to get back into combat sometime soon. Alien told me a story about this picture his wife took of him and his kid toasting coffee cups before we left 5 months ago. Apparently his son's was filled with grape trying to be like his dad. Isn't that sweet? Then I sat down just now and it hit me like a sledgehammer. Damn, I miss my son.
November 14, 2010- We've been on the move for the past several days. Apparently, the Yukes are increasing resistance in Versua. Well we can't have that can we? So I was talking to Stallion about how Bethany and I met, and he's all "You shouldn't have gotten married, you made a huge mistake, your kids are gonna cost a fortune and blah, blah, blah yada yada." On and on. I don't why I bother. He's a good friend but he has this wild, cocky side to him. The side that makes him so annoying sometimes. Playing pranks on everyone. He can be pretty hard to deal with. My wife hates him, well not really hate but dislikes intensely. I almost stopped drinking because of this guy. Is it really necessary to drink 6 beers in an hour?...I forgot to mention more bullshit about the Four Wings of Sand Island. Now their freaking superstars. Apparently, they...sunk a submarine. Wow. That real impressiveWe've destroyed 6. We've been busting our butts since October, taking casualties, shooting down planes, blowing up stuff. Yet, 4 pilots sink ONE submarine and their famous, give me a break.
November 15, 2010-Our next target was a oil refinery down further south. One of the longer missions we've done. We only had a small group up, 8 planes. Stallion, and Shark, as well as Spider, Silver, Candy, Angel and Python at the lead. Silver was pissed since she had to fly trail even though she'd been in combat since we have. However, she had yet to shoot down a plane. She was assigned the task of dropping a bomb on the facility. As we approached, we picked up enemy fighters at 3:00. Some six of them were gunning for us. So I and Shark peel off as well as Silver rolls into drop the JDAM; but her bomb malfunctions and it gets hung up. How the hell did that happen. So she's white hot pissed; it just isn't her day. She throws her plane towards us as Spider takes a try at it. Python notes about more enemy fighters coming in. So I shoot down one he tried to dive to get away. That was dumb move. Shark manages to down the other bugger, even though it took him 2 missiles to do it. Then Spider confirms a direct hit, and so does Stallion. Python manages to shoot down one on the north side and we're like "Good kill, boss." Then out of the damn blue, Silver rolls in and just goes to town on these fighters. She takes down 3 Tornados and 1 Mig-29. Wow. After we got back to the carrier, she just sort of fell out on the ground acting like she's on drugs or caffeine or something. I kinda feel bad for though, her parents were in the air force.
November 18, 2010- We've been in an "operational pause" for the last three days. Didn't we just have one? Oh well. So Bethany's telling me about the anti-war movement. Oh lord. Everyone's having doubts about the war. Saying we should have waited for diplomatic talks to conclude, the attacks on civilians. While I don't condone attacks on Yuke civilians, I don't really care about them either. Everywhere's a combat zone, leave! I hate to say this to Bethany, but we have no intention of liberating them. We're here to bomb the crap out of them. Let the Army worry about that. My brothers, who are both snipers, agree. Why is the enemy crying about it? They started it and they brought on themselves. It looks like Gothan ships are gathering for some big operation, but I don't know what.
November 21, 2010-My thinking about the war has been drifting ever since my talk with X-Ray about all the bombing. He kinda feels guilty; he's afraid one of those targets we hit may have been civilian. I don't want to kill civilians either, but we're just given coordinates. Just bomb it and go home. I need to get back to my one track mind. I can't be concerned with the "what ifs." My overall goal is to get home, which by now I would be had these idiots hadn't bombed us. Fuck them.
November 23, 2010- Some big invasion is upcoming. The Gothans are getting ready for a massive land invasion; 100,000 men and women...sweet fancy moses! Gotha has one of the largest percentages of women in the military at 42 percent. The Gothan XXVIII Corps and the XXXIX Corps are going to storm an undisclosed beach in Versua to take some undisclosed town on a date and time to be told. We're taking a backseat for once and we're gonna bomb everything before they land. Piper, with 4 kills to her credit, came up to me and told her brother had been killed in an ambush along with 18 other Marines. Her brother's name is Royce, my brother's friend. I'm to see if either of my brothers are amongst them. But no luck so far...bastards. There ain't gonna be a rock left in Versua that hasn't been bombed!
November 24, 2010-Darien was in fact killed in the ambush yesterday. I've dealt with loss before in the squadron and I've handled it very well. But now I'm between just unbelievable anger and depression. Well, now I'm mad. I feel like a nuclear bomb right now. This was just like the first time an enemy shot at me. I couldn't believe the audacity. An enemy shooting at...me? Now like a third of me is gone. Those bastards are gonna pay this!
November 26, 2010- Vengeance is sweet. We've been bombing the Gothan objective, the Anzia region. We are, according to brass, free to attack anything in Anzia. The civilians were given plenty of warning to leave the city. If they're still there...oh well. Revenge has pretty much the common theme across the squadron.; Chaos lost a brother, Piper lost a brother, Scarab lost a brother. Python then has the nerve to lecture us today on our motives; he tells us not to take our revenge out on everyone, although this is still war we have to keep a higher standard. Hypocrite. Telling us to go after the enemy as much as he does, then turns around and says this. Whatever. They brought it on themselves, regardless of how I feel. I did managed to scrape some kills, I shot down 3 Mig-25s.
November 27, 2010- The Gothans love incendiary bombs, even though we can't use Napalm anymore-thank you very much President Harling. Gothan F-2s lit up a troop concentration while we watched preparing to roll in with our payload. Shark was appalled, but Stallion and I were singing that one song by Darts of Pleasure, "Burn Baby Burn". I love that song. I also shot down a helicopter today; it was about 12 miles away. Amazing.
November 30, 2010- Versuan resistance toughened, but we rolled through that. I don't think there is an anthill left in Anzia or the surrounding areas. Everything's burning. The beach is littered with destruction. Piles of smoke are everywhere. Anzia itself is a pancake. I mean, the area is pretty dry, so there's big arid patches everywhere. There was a lot of stuff in Anzia. I hit 20 targets over 6 days. Gothans had A-4 Skyhawks and Rafale Ms dropping bombs as well; Skyhawks and Rafales...strange combo. But no one wants to hear about this, everyone wants to hear about the Sand Island pilot that was shot down. While tragic on a human level, as is any pilot lost, the media once again treats this a huge showcase. We've lost some 9 pilots since October. What about them? Where's the news report about them? Those guys are the real heroes; they would have done what that one guy did 9 times over.
December 1, 2010- Anzia...is dead. The Gothans took it just an hour ago, after running into practically no resistance. They were expecting a major battle, but found nothing. They captured hundreds of troops just scared stiff. They were crying and begging for mercy. I had no idea our bombing had that effect on the enemy. But we pounded those guys with everything. There was one place that literally looked like the moon. The bridges, the surrounding areas, the roads, the buildings, were cratered. We flew over the area today to provide any close air support. There was one road we just hammered again and again. It was this convoy of incoming reinforcements, and the road was just...unbelievable. We took a lot of pride in our destruction; well I did. The lines of POWs was endless. Yet we'd listen to Gothans on the ground...the ones that could speak Osean correctly. They were shocked at the destruction; shocked and appalled. There were no almost no friendly casualties, almost no action at all. It's war. I'm sure Darien would loved to see this.
December 4, 2010- The media is starting to get on my nerves. We watched a report about the Anzia campaign. The media was whining and saying things like, "This is just too horrible, and this has to stop and blah, blah, blah." Most of us just laughed our asses off. Shark wasn't so humorous. He just looked at it in all this contemplation. He couldn't believe all the devastation. He's like "I'm starting to hate this war now." I agree to an extent, but I channel my anger towards my enemies. That's how it works really. They were talking about how many Yuke soldiers didn't want to fight but had to do their jobs. I'd suppose we'd use that same rationalization if things were the other way around. But there's a part of me that just wants this to be over. I miss Bethany and Junior. It's 7 months to day when we were originally deployed. Yet I have no desire to explain this to either of them. They only know what they've have seen on TV. It's different world out here.