My First Story Pt.3 A new mission, a new problem.
Sorry I have not been posting this, fucking school, but whatever enjoy.
Afghanistan was always hot, but because of all the fire the dragons were producing, it made it hotter. All of the veterans (the little their were) were already use to the heat. The recruits were not. After the battle a couple of days ago we got a full Company of recruits, and of cause the guys back home made "adjustments" to the M16, putting a 50. Caliber rifle barrel on it, then loading it with 7.55mm rounds, and the military Wasn't giving the veterans the new weapons, only the recruits were getting them. To make it worst all the veterans in my Company where leading a 20 men squad's, since we had no experienced squad leaders. High Com thought it might be a good idea to do a full on offensive to the dragons, but none of the Corps leaders were going to risk their soldiers. The best thing we could do was sit on our asses and wait
I was sitting in our barracks when one of the recruits walked in.
"Um, Sir." He snapped a salute.
I snapped a salute back, "What's up."
"Captain wants to see you."
I wanted to ask for what, but I knew he didn't know. "Alright thank you"
I walked out the my barracks, and walked to the Captains barracks, I looked around the base, we had a full armament of vehicles, and well, enough to attack one of our own bases, a thought ran through my mind but I pushed it aside. I walked in and up to his room.
"Hello Sir."
"Just the guy I wanted to see, how you doing."
"Pretty bored Sir" we both laughed at that.
"That makes sense, but down to business, first of, you are being ranked up from Sergeant First Class to a Second Lieutenant."
"T-thank you Sir." I didn't see that coming.
"Second, I was finally able to get orders from command, they want you to scout a possible oil mine, which if you ask me makes no sense but, orders are orders."
"And you want to send in my squad?"
"Your men need the experience, I'm pretty sure there are no hostiles, but like before, no Intel."
"I honestly think like they are trying to kill us Sir, but I'll do it."
I went to my squad.
"Alright listen up, we got a mission, I want you to be all ready in 20 minuets, got it."
They started to get ready. I grabbed my unmodified M16, I didn't put on my armor, seeing as how hot it is. I waited for everybody else to get ready. " Okay, our objective is, to scout a oil refinery, and pull out that's it, no gun fights, just a scouting mission. Any Questions?" One of my men raised his hands. "What's up?"
"I'm Pretty sure dragons don't use guns Sir." That made everybody laugh.
"Ha ha, actually they do, so shut your mouth. Is everybody ready. Good lets do this."
I was sitting in the second car, letting a Private drive. I looked around hoping not to see any hostiles. Luckily I didn't see any and hoped not to see any. We where 1 click out by this time, I went on the radio.
"Alright, lets park on the side of the road and walk the rest of the way."
We did so and we got set up. "Okay, we will be split into four fire teams, one of them will be staying with the trucks, the other 3 are with me also stay five yards away from each other, got it." We started to move out, I noticed that some people were sticking to close to each other. "Guys it's a five yard spread, so spread out. Also keep radio silence." I looked up, and saw a silhouette of something, then it disappeared. We got up to the compounds main entrance, which was pretty much a chain link fence. I peered through, only to see oil derricks, and construction vehicles.
"All right, Listen up. Gonzalez's boys your with me, everybody else, protect this entrance." With that, the five of us moved in, trying to be as quiet as we could. We got out to an open area in the compound, a second later I heard the *thump* of a M203 Grenade Launcher. It hit near one of the recruits, launching him off his feet and hitting the ground a second later, he was dead no doubt. Right then erupted gunfire, from, all around us, dirt was kicking up around us, blood was hitting the ground, and in a second flash, I was the last one left. I was hiding behind a truck at this point bullets still going off around, I fired a couple of rounds off just to get bombarded with more bullets. "Where the fuck is the rest off the team!" I said to myself. I looked up to see three men standing in front of me. "Shit" I said, and with that one of them hit me over the head with their gun, knocking me out.