Future Memories

Chapter 10

3 months after deployment...

I haven't seen much action. I've only been off of base a couple of times and I've only been in a few small skirmishes. Nothing serious. The most exciting thing that happened was a week after I had arrived here. My wife had called me and told me that she was pregnant. I was so excited to hear the news. I was going to be a father. When I heard the news, I yelled at the top of my lungs and scared anyone within 50 yards of my barracks. I went and told Brayden the good news. Luckily he and I were assigned to the same base camp. We were placded in different squads though. I was placed in Delta squad, nicknamed Black Wolf Squad, while he was put in Echo squad, nicknamed The Red Demons Squad. Today would be my first major mission. My squad would head to Kabul in Afghanistan. There is a high importance target bunked there and we are being sent to capture him. Our squad and Charlie squad would leave base at 0500 hours to begin our operation. Charlie squad would head in first and scout the area and check the surrounding area. Our squad would head in towards the target. Both squads consisted of three fire teams. There was fire team one, I was on fire team two, and there was fire team three. My fire team consisted of Radar, our lead man, Ghost, our rifle man, Hammer, our heavy gunner, and I the ammo assist. We were all rifle with no heavy guns today. We went in for debriefing at 0400 hours. We took off from base at 0415 hours and arrived in Kabul around 0450 hours. We arrived and settled. We began the operation at 0500 hours. Charlie squad began to move towards the target building. Firearm one would scout a half mile to the right of the bulding. Fireteam three would do the same on the left. Fire team two would scout up to a mile away from the house. After they were done scouting the took positions incase fighting broke out. Oh squad began to move towards the building. We checked the last mile for enemies and spotted none. This is too easy, I thought to myself. We arrived at the building and breached the door. Fireteam one took the top floor and we took the ground floor. Fireteam three would keep watch outside of the building. We checked the first floor and found nothing. Fireteam two, however, wouldn't be so lucky. They opened a door on the second floor and found a man with a bomb and rig standing near the door way. All we heard was "Get the fuck out!" We dived out of the doorway just as the bomb went off. Two members of fireteam two died, one because paralyzed, and the last member was lucky enough to get away with only a few minor injuries. As soon as we got out of the building we encountered heavy fire. Charlie squad had been ambushed also. "We need fucking air support!," yelled a member of fireteam three. "Roadrunner, call in a chopper, now!," yelled Radar. Yes, my nickname is Roadrunner. I pulled pulled my radio and called for air support. After 15 minutes of heavy fighting, a chopper appeared. Oh hopes were shot lived though becayse after only a few minutes, the chopper was shot down. "Are you fucking kidding me? This is bullshit!," yelled Hammer. "We have to find a way oit of here," said Radar. He scanned the area. "Over there," he said as he pointed towards an alley to our right. "Roadrunner, throw some smokes!" I tossed a couple smokes and a third, delayed one. We waited about 30 seconds and began sprinting towards the alley. I heard someone behind me scream in pain. Damn it I thought to myself. We reached the allry but didnt stop sprinting until we were a good distance away from the location. We called for an e vac and it arrived in 20 minutes or so. We returned to base and began to talk. "Holy fuck that was intense," said Hammer. "Damn right it was," I replied. "I can't believe we fell for that damn trap. We shouldve known we were going to get in some deep shit," said Radar shaking his head. "At least we got out alive," Ghost chimed in. "True," we said simultaneously....
That day We lost a third of our squad. Two dead in fireteam one, one dead in fireteam three, and one paralyzed in fireteam one.
I was glad my team got out ok. We wouldn't see action again for over 6 months...