Forged in Fire, Chapter 2
Four days. It took me all of four days to HATE Iraq. Several of the senior Non-Coms (also known as NCOs, Non-Commissioned Officers, those ranked corporal and up) had been here before and laughed at the younger soldiers, while secretly counting the...
Forged in Fire, Chapter 1
I awoke to the sounds of my radio-alarm clock broadcasting the weather alert for the city. Normally, I would curse the clock, hit snooze, and roll over for another ten minutes while lamenting the coming of the light. But not this day. This day, four...
Chapter 2- Training
_"My loyal subjects. For five years, we have ignored the threat to the east, and four days ago, we paid the price most dear. At two in the morning, Neighpan and Gryphany jointly launched the most vicious attack on foreign soil in over seventy years,...
Chapter 1- Boot Camp
Morning. That most dreadful time of day, the part where your alarm or mother tells you that you need to begin it. That time where you leave behind your dreams, the ones where you have your Destiny Mark, telling you what you are going to be good at. I...