With the team geared up they were transported to the briefing room. It was a simple room, a digital table (tables that have a user interface enhanced touch screen with minor holographic effects) for displaying the area that they would be fighting in and four seats around it. Brandon and Alex sat opposite to each other; James took his seat just as the briefing began. The table lit up, revealing a maze of small apartments and squatter slums, a common battlefield during the Canadian annexation. A male synthetic voice spoke up from the table itself.
"What you see before you is the small town a 'Gasto'. It's been taken by rebels and it's our job to eliminate or minimize the presence of rebels. We have no way to estimate how many there are inside this particular area. You will be the first on the ground, we have a landing zone marked here" the computer lit up a small field five hundred meters away from the town "once landed you will take this building" a two story house lit up red, a dotted line represented the path to take "once there you will await further orders. Any questions?" it asked. Alex spoke up.
"Computer" he said "will we be receiving reinforcements?" he asked
"Negative" it replied "one helicopter could give away your position, a group of them would immediately cause a full alarm, once the apartment is clear, you will await further orders" the computer finished. Something about how they were armed was worrying James.
"Computer, if we're taking the role of recon, shouldn't we at least be allowed rifles and proper body armour?" he asked, the rest of the group nodded in agreement.
"You are militia, you arm yourselves" it said. It dawned on James, they were playing the role of militia, during the annexation, some citizens joined the cause without joining the army, soldiers used them for more basic duties. They sent eager militia men for things like recon and the like keep them out of the way. That was what was happening considering the mission description, they were most likely going to just camp out in the apartment and give coordinates of positions, easy really.