You know after all the shit I i've put up with through out the 2 years as a pilot for the IUN-PKF this has to be the worst assignment. Fucking Fort Grays air base the most boring place in the world, at least Brownie got sent hear as well. Lt Nick Wood Tac Name Trigger 5/14/19

DATE- MAY-15-2019

LOCATION- FORT GRAYS AIR BASE

FILE-7734-TR-01

CLEARANCE- LEVEL- YANKEE WHITE

OPERATION DEER HORN

"Come on move it move get in your planes people let's go!"

As I rushed through the groups of ground crews trying to fighters in the air i hear someone call out to me. "Hey you pilot get over here."

I turned and sprinted over to the man as I approached, he started to speak again."Why aren't you in your bird yet?"

"I don't know which ones mine." I said to the man."What's your name?"

"Lieutenant Nick Wood."

"Lets see ah your the new kid, alright your birds the F-16 with the dog emblem on it." He said pointing over to the far side of the hanger.

As I climbed up the ladder I had to ask about the emblem which was a dog head with a revolver in his mouth and a red sash with my tac name on it.

"Ah yeah they sent your plane here first but didn't say which squadron you would be with so that's what the guys put to say its yours." "Any ways your loaded for bear kid thanks to those fancy 3D printers you got plenty of munitions to go round." (Only way to account for the hundreds of missiles you carry)

"So what do i got."

"Standard seekers and 4AAMs, nothing fancy but it'll do."

After he removed the ladder I closed the canopy and started to taix out the hanger to the runway. I stopped just short of the runway as I got my radio to our frequency and waited for the flight of four F-18 to takeoff and then rolled to a stop on the runway and start through a hasty preflight check.

"Trigger your callsign will be Mage two verfiey and read back."

"Tower this is Mage two I copy permission to talkoff." I radioed back as I completed my preflight.

"Mage two take off granted hurt your wingmans already up there."

The second I heard the tower approve takeoff I put my falcon to max throttle and rocked across the runway pulling up as soon as I had the air speed and retraction my landing gear at almost the same time.

As I flew over the harbor I saw off my wing the Albatross being consumed by fire and heard over the radio from a voice that i hadent heard in a few months "They got the carrier shit,"

"Mage two this is AWACS Sky Keeper i'll be your eyes in the sky, Mage one is your wingman form up on him and head north."

"Copy that Sky Keeper." As I Formed up on the ping on my radar that was tagged as Mage one i was surprised to see him pull off momentarily and form up on my wings.

"Mage two this Mage one call me Clown, you take the lead in the formation for now I wanna see what your capable of."

"Copy that Clown." As we closed in on the first bomber I saw it was an old Tu-95. I slid in off his right wing. "Guns Guns Guns." I called out as I pulled the trigger and watched as his right wing was cut in half and started spiraling toward the ocean.

"Good job Trigger that's one down."

"This is Golem one scrach our three bombers." "Good job Mage and Golem form up with each other and take on the last formation."

"Sky Keeper Golem two whats the last formation composed of." I glanced over at Golems formation and saw the plane in the number two spot and smiled as I saw the bold B on the tail.

"This is Sky Keeper counting four bombers with three escorts." Sky Keeper said after a moment."
"Golem one copys Trigger you take the bombers use your 4AAMs every one else engage the escorts."

"This is Mage two I copy engaging bombers." I broke off from Clowns wing in order to fall in behind the flight of bombers and let the computer do its magic " Mage two Fox three!" was all I said as I sent my missiles off toward their target. Seconds later I was rewarded with four 95s going up in clouds of fire and metal.

"This is Sky Keeper all bombers and escorts are down good job."

Pointing my plane back towards Clown and the others a sudden exclamation came over the radio. "TRIGGER BREAK NOW!"

Following Golem twos advice I put my plane in a sharp split-s and saw a red and white Mig-21 fly past. As we passed I saw the amount of tallys on his plane in what short time I had i estamted it to be almost twenty five.

"Shit, This guys an ace."

"Keep your head cool Trigger you got this." Came Golem ones advice over the coms as I keep doing everything I could to keep this guy off me. I put myself into an immelman and lobbed some cannon fire at my opponent but it still did nothing as next I knew he was behind me again.

"Cant we Help out sir he's by himself out there." "Negative Brownie with how close they are we have no clear shot we would just get in the way."

"But sir."

"Negative have some faith there's a reason we picked Trigger just watch."

As me and my opponent continued to trade spot from front to back, I finally noticed it my despret cannon fire had damaged his right aileron all i had to do was get him to turn and. "Fox two Fox two."

After that intince fight the rest of our sortie was a blur until I got a ping on one of my private channels. "You and me are gonna talk when we land." was all Brownie said as she lined up for her landing. Now I think id rater take one two of those aces rather than a pissed off Brownie shit.