For God and Country

by Rookie571

A young soldier supposedly dies on the field of battle at a conflict in the 21st century. Only to wake up in a world unlike his own, with alien races he only thought existed in fiction, and caught in a war he couldn't even hope to possibly understand.

2. After Action Report: 12-03-13

Armed Forces of the Philippines - Philippine Army

After Action Report – Dated: December 3rd 2013

Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, 37th Infantry Regiment , 1st Infantry Division

AoR: Outpost Alpha / Scarborough Shoal / South China Sea (grid location attached)

Report as follows –

- Enemy forces were sighted north of the outpost about four kilometers out by a Scout Ranger recon unit 0700 hours ago. Intel believed that opposition was most like to be the PLAGF 403rd Combined Arms Battalion, with support from light armor and artillery.

Contact was established at approximately 1100 hours, when the opening salvo from their artillery made landfall throughout the outpost's perimeter.

Artillery barrage lasted for less than ten minutes, after which enemy forces launched the first wave of their assault to the outpost with a platoon's worth of light armor supported by about two companies worth of infantry.

Initial assault repulsed, with first wave suffering heavy losses. Company strength down to about half as artillery attacks and the previous engagement significantly decrease troop numbers. CO Captain Felix Hernandez was KIA.

Second wave launched about an hour later, this time with a combined arms assault of three infantry companies, an armored assault company, and two artillery batteries. Heavy casualties sustained on both sides. Majority of the company command group killed when the pre-assault barrage bombarded the company CP.

Bravo Company's line breached at approximately 1237 hours, with the perimeter defenses shattered due to repeated enemy attacks. Withdrawal order was issued by acting company CO Sergeant Julio Herera to the outpost's interior, at this time company strength was estimated to be at least twenty-two able bodied soldiers who fortified the outpost bunkers and trenches.

Both sides continued engaging each other for about twenty minutes when the Chinese ZBD05 light armor contingent charged itss way towards the defenders, followed by an all-out infantry attack. Battle officially ended at approximately 1259 hours. Entire Bravo Company decimated, with no survivors or POW's recovered when the initial counter-attack was launched three hours later.