Trustworthy help

21. Fire fight.

'Watch your six.' I whisper to my team.
The order I gave was clear. Make a save way out for the alpha team inside the base. Everything is calm despite the fact of being warned about 24/7 attacks. Right when we enter the wall surrounding the base, I hear a high pitched whistle. I look up, knowing it was a bullet passing by. 'Take a cover!' Right when I yell it, all hell breaks loose. Now a new problem forms, we can't get over this wall while being under fire. 'Lieutenant Harris to base, I'm going to to change entry point, over.' I say into the portable radio.

'Understood lieutenant, give us new coordinates when you get there, over.'

There is a loud explosion close by as we quickly move to a new place. 'Harris! Where are we going?!' Marksen yells over the noise. 'New entry point!' I yell back. When I stop and kneel, I hold up my hand. This is the only other place we can go. 'Listen up! Smithy, I need you to call in air support at the location of the enemy. When the boys in the air do theirs job, we go in. Everyone understand, that's our window.' The guys nod as Smithy is on the radio. He calls it in and we all stand ready to jump the wall. I stand ready to lift my buddy over. Far away the jet can be heard. 'Everyone ready!' I yell. Everyone moves to put their foot into the others hands. The loud noise of the jet coming over low fills the air before a deafening explosion. I lift my buddy up. He stays on top of the wall and reached out his hand, pulling me up after. The blast makes me need to hold on before jumping down. 'Move, move, move! Get to location Charlie!' The group moves in formation, splitting off from Marksen's. We get to the main building. 'Lieutenant.' The commanding Sargent says as he shakes my hand. 'How are we doing this?' He says.

My group stands behind my as I brief the men in front of me. 'We got wounded.' The Sargent says. 'Enough gurneys?' I ask. The Sargent nods 'alright. I want four men on each gurney. We have to carry them to pick up. 'Brooks, Jackson and Williams. Will go with me to fix the exit. Eversman has command till I'm back. Get the wounded ready to move.' I say. Everyone gets to what they need as me and the three men follow me to where we jumped the wall. 'C4.' I say. Brooks takes off his backpack and hands me the C4. I place it before Jackson moves in the last pieces. We move back and I take out the radio '15th to base, we are in position and ready with the clay. New position is 476 - 723 - 058, do you copy, 476 - 723 - 058. Over.' I wait for response.

'Copy, 476 - 723 -058. You have permission to activate the clay. Over.'

I nod at William. Right after I see a soldier running up. 'Stay back!' I yell as I get up and run to him. I push him back into cover right as the C4 ignites. I get thrown back by the blast. 'Fuck! Lieutenant!' Brooks rushes over as I gasp for air before I cough. 'Lieutenant are you okay?' Williams asks as Jackson helps up the soldier. They dust me off before helping me up. 'Fucks sake.' I cough once more, 'we gotta move.' I say as I start to head back to location Charlie. A hole in the wall will let us out. There's a fire fight going on at the other side of the base where Marksen and his team are. They'll have to be distraction until the wounded are all out of base. I slam the door open, having Eversman walk up. 'Jesus what happened to you.' He says. I hit him on the back of his helmet 'how many wounded?' I ask. '24 on this side of the base ma'am.' I nod.

'Lieutenant Harris to base, we got 24 wounded at location Charlie. ready to move them to pick up, over.'

'Copy that Harris, 24 wounded to pick up. Over.'

'Okay, let's get a move on. Eversman leads, section 4 will join. Everyone else with me.' Everyone gets going I'm left with six of my own men. 'Our part is done. Team-' an RPG blows up the building behind us. 'Move!' We move to a different place and take cover. 'The 24th needs assistance. Soldiers are still there as they protect the base. The ones from the base need to leave. After we cover for the 24th. Let's go!' We sneak from building to building till we're at the right building.