When they reached the top of the mountain, they went to work. They could rest later, but the first few minutes were critical. No matter what you hear or read about employing stealth, being on top of a barren hilltop in Afghanistan is easy to notice. Digital camouflage does nothing […]
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The group continued up the path and their wariness eased as the close quarters of buildings interspersed with bushes and other vegetation gave way to a sheer mountainous hillside. Now on higher ground, Joe could see all around. They were above the squat buildings that ringed the center of town […]
Return to Part I We landed in a tornado of dust and death. The Chinook touched down long enough to let my team out along with a squad of green berets and then sped away. ***** After Joe and his team were picked up at the FOB the pilot stopped […]
That’s not my real name, but does it matter? The story I’m about to tell is real, though. It matters. It’s true. I’ve always been a morning person, and at that time, I was always the first one up. I would unzip my sleeping bag and crawl out, eager to […]
East Tower! East Tower! Do you copy? East Tower – TOC come in, over. The roller had exploded exactly 98 meters east of the tower, and the resulting blastwave had damaged it, causing the roof to collapse burying three Soldiers inside. John Woodhouse (United States), Karl Lundgren (Sweden), and Aleksandr […]
The Unified Forces don’t bother trying to eavesdrop on the artificially intelligent Battle-Bots. It’s a laugh to think that they could. With quantum mechanics driving the Bots’ encryption algorithms, decrypting the COMMS is impossible. Conversely, the Bots can easily break into UF COMMS, so TTPs either call for transmitting in […]
The United Forces is a joint military force represented by volunteers of what is left of the world’s nations, except for China and Russia that is. Soldiers from those countries are certainly part of the force, but their governments no longer exist. They were the first countries to be taken […]
He was being bad, a bad Soldier. Leaning back on a chair he wasn’t supposed to use, helmet off, and earplugs in. The M240 was up against some sandbags inside the watchtower, and the sounds of an audiobook occupied his attention. He existed in another world instead of the shit […]