A Past Love, A New Future...

"Give them some cowbell!"

Staff Sergeant Qrow Branwan stood up on the side of a RG33 yelling at the vehicles gunner to lay down cover fire with the M2 .50 machine gun.

"How much ammo you guys got in here?" He asked the gunner.

"4,000 rounds" came the response from the gunner.

"4,000? Oh yeah give them some."

As the gunner went back to engaging enemy targets, Qrow quickly yelled "Hey don't just stick to one spot man! Fan it out! I want everyone to get some."

Quickly jumping off the RG, Qrow grabbed his rifle and moved back up to the ridge to his team as they continue to fire into a small enemy held town. Mounting up on a high wall, Qrow used his M4 block 2 with a Nightforce 2.5-10x24 optic to engage and spot enemy combatants. "Oh shit, yep I got them right there!" Qrow yelled after hearing bullets wizing right by his head. "HEY Andy! Right in front of the tents, there's a fucking dirt wall thats about 2 foot! That's where the fucker is shooting at." Qrow yelled to a fellow Marine loading up a round into the Carl Gustav.

"Got it Qrow! Back blast clear?"

"Clear. Kill that fucker!" Qrow yelled.

With a loud boom, Andy fired the Gustav round right into the hole in the wall hitting an ammo storage area, causing a larger explosion.

"Well shit, that worked." Andy laughed.

Soon after, Wylie began hammering the area with his M240 Bravo machine gun. "Wylie, shift fire to the left, I'm going for the AT on the 4x4!" Qrow yelled as he passed Wylie.

Getting to the ATV, Qrow quickly untied the AT4 launcher from the vehicle and prepped it to fire. Laying the launcher on the high mud wall, Qrow looked over at Deacon. "You ready?"

Deacon nodded his head annd covered his ears. "Rocket out!" Qrow yelled as he fired the rocket and it slammed into a old building keeping the enemies heads down.

As the fighting continued, Ember team began to gain the upper hand with heavy fire and close air support. Soon, the sun began to set as more elements of the Armys' 5th Special Forces Group and local fighters, began to clear the enemy out of the town as Ember 22 providing overwatch. Within the day, the town was clear and Qrow and his team began to make their way back to their Forward Operation Base.

"Fuck man, that could've gone real bad." Wylie said as he cleaned his 240.

"Yeah, I don't think I have ever seen them organized as good as they were." Qrow replied having finished putting his gear up.

"White Fang seemed to have gotten their shit together."

"I don't know Wylie, that couldn't have been WF, these guys were different." Replied Qrow. "They didn't have the same gear as WF, these guys had damn good gear. Did you see what that 5th Group guy pulled off one of the dead? That was an AK103, modern optics, everything."

"You think someone else wants to get into the party?"

"I hate to think about that, but fucking hell man, that shit I just don't know."