Gas & Blood (Damned of the 2/19th Novella) - Rough Draft Finished
Specialist (E-4) Johnathon Bomber is a member of 2/19th Special Weapons Group and the assistant squad leader of the team in charge of FSTS-317 AKA Atlas. Less than 12 hours ago Atlas suffered a massive munitions detonation that destroyed two bunkers and scattered damaged ammunition over the fifteen square mile clandestine site. Wounded was his squad leader, Corporal Stillwater, who is unconscious and recovering from surgery, Nancy Nagle, who had been injured by a thermobaric blast, and PFC Cromwell, who had been shot through the abdomen by a Soviet soldier.
That leaves him in charge of a squad that has less than a half dozen members left out of almost 30, all of them wounded to one extant or the other, some, like Stillwater, should be in an ICU. He has to keep them all alive, and figure out what is next for the site and the crew of Atlas.
However, the new Section Sergeant has decided to stay at Atlas and hold command, Group has sent reinforcements that are unfamiliar with the deadly atmosphere of Atlas, radiation and chemical levels are rising, and other people have plans for Atlas.
It's going to be all John Bomber can do to struggle through everything Atlas is throwing at him.
And when the CIA gets involved, everything is suddenly put in doubt.
