0800 hours july 4th 2544

in orbit of the planet New Germany

UNSC Frigate the Roger Young

the journal of adam 4 hours to drop

the order was simple and all but unheard of the planet new germany had a covenant light cruiser crash land on it. no invasion fleet no endless numbers just one small ship bout 50 troops total too many for the planets swat teams to handle but too few to warrant the deployment of battle hardened front line troops so they sent us. One rifle team, Top of our class. the assualt force consisted of me private first class adam shook, private rebecca forscythe, private jimmy johnson, and private barret duke plus two squads of the local militia. thank fully this journal was a gift from ackerson and with it i can drop who i am now and talk bout the past im sure he gets a copy of every post but i still take the break that i can. its the 4th of july my family always made a spectacle of it spending hundreds of dollars on fireworks and relaxing at night. days go by and i miss them well with luck ill be setting off enough fireworks to outdo 23 years of independence day and fighting for the freedom of all unsc members. the com just rang its time to suit up ill be back to write more or i wont but it doesnt matter.

-end passage-

adam walks over to his armor rack and pulls on the kevlar armor and his jackal shield, he grabs his helmet and a smg is put on his waist he grabs a DMR and a shotgun, and marches to the drop ship where he meets his team. Private Forscythe is carrying a sniper rifle and a battle rifle, Pvt. Johnson has an assault rifle and a grenade launcher while pvt duke is carrying two jackhammers on his back a chaingun in his arms plus 2 sawed of shotguns on his hips.

Adam looks at his team all were a bit nervous and as far as the other knew all were green. they loaded onto the pelican without a word spoken they all knew the orders and the objective, adam looked at jimmy he had a steely resolve during the briefing however he bitched about fighting with weekend warriors, barret had agreed but that matter got resolved. rebecca was a bit bitter that most of the fighting might end up in the light cruiser so she brought the BR55 if things got close. they hit atmosphere the craft rocked everyone else was sitting but adam stood realizing that this time hes going into combat more prepared than the first time not only did he know more bout the covenant empire than the others he also knew anything they threw at him he could take at least on this mission. its all but unheard of for a covenant ship to crash on a human planet without there being a battle so he KNEW it was a brute ship in poor repair probably maintained by yanme or drones instead of engineers he knew the brutes wouldnt have more than a small pack of grunts maybe a couple of jackals but not much else.

as soon as the ship touched down the ramp opened adam grabbed his rifle and walked out to meet the militia. "who is in charge here?" He asked the soldiers, one stepped forward, "im captain Dix Hauser, so how do we want to do this?" adam thought bout it for a minute, how bout you lead us to the crash site do you have anyone with ranged weapons? we will target anyone moving on the outside while others sit closer ready to mow down any one that charges our line. how is the terraign around the site?"

Hauser pulls out a picture from a drone it shows the ship in between two small hills. the crash site was 25 miles away so they set out in warthogs barret stood in a passenger model as its turret there was one standard and 3 passenger they drove to one side of the hill and climbed to the top. immediately rebecca got her sniper up and scouted .

"adam do you know what these are?" she hands me her rifle i look through and see much what i expected brutes grunts drones but i was surprised to see 2 hunters.

"from the reports i read the bigs are called drones they are an annoyance at most use controlled semi auto fire to take them out short bursts, the big bastards that look like a gorrila mixed with a grizzly are called brutes shoot for the head they will soak up bullets in there chest, now the blue guys are hunters best to tak them out with heavy weapons they are more or less immune to small arms fire except in the belly and the back, plus you all know what grunts are."

they all nodded and i gave my orders frontline fighters move halfway down the hill under ghilie nets wait for the charge to open up . ranged fighters stay up here target the brutes mainly. barret i want you up here with your turret for if the drones decide to attack en mass and your rockets will be to take out the hunters. jimmie your with me down the hill ill give the order to attack when i say you are to start pickin them off."

they all chorused "sir, yes sir."