It wasn’t the best time for another war yet here we were again facing global war fare. Boarding the Helicopter wasn’t the hard part, but seeing the face of fear on the men and women sitting beside me as they prepared to leave on the mission to aid our comrades over seas. I got a quick glance at the helicopter’s Manifest before we took off. Brigadier General Alexander Berwick is our commanding officer. Our Mission was to be a short one, drop off some supplies to Delta Company in Moscow, Russia to aid their lack off medical, food, and water supply situation. We also were going to leave a few of our best men behind to aid their number count. We were then going to fly back to base in London, England.

Our journey took us across enemy territory, however we dint expect much resistance from the German & Russian forces in the area. Little did we know our enemy would have a mass load of surface to air missiles. Our CH-47F helicopter was hit as we near the Germany Poland boarder. Our bird was going down and going down fast. It took quick thinking on the pilots part. Sure enough Staff Sergeant Christine Heart took the helicopter’s controls and got her bird to the ground safely. We exited the helicopter swiftly with guns drawn. We secured the crash site to make sure enemy troops weren’t in the immediate proximity. A very pissed Heart exited her CH-47F Chinook and inspected the damage to the tail of the craft, To be truthful their wasn’t a tail left. It was surely a miracle we were able to land let alone fly. We all were on edge knowing Enemy scouting parties would be looking for us. We all jumped when Sergeant Heart Screamed “Fuck, those god dam fuckin bitches!” The General Quickly acted, he grabbed  Heart. And said “Quiet Sgt. You will get us all killed.” Sgt. Heart put her arms on her waist and replied “Sorry General but those god dam mother fuckin no good German ass holes destroyed my bird.” The General looked deep into her eyes and smirked. He then responded “We will just have to get you a new one when we get home, now wont we.” Heart let out a smile and said “yes Sir!”

Brigadier General Alexander Berwick ordered us all to line up for a head count. He read off the manifest. Pvt. Luke Nixon, SSgt. Christine Heart, 2^nd Lt. Jennifer Combs, Capt. Megan Lane, Col. Mike Southerland, and Major Nolan Hamilton. The General seen he forgot a name, Dillon Nash. Dillon wasn’t Army or even military he was a civilian Journalist on a special assignment to document our “Successful Mission” although he was going to enlist in a military branch, Dillon decided to hold his enlistment so he could take this journalist job. Suddenly a ruffle in the bushes, it was Dillon the kid came out saying “gee im sorry I was just taking a stroll threw the woods.” I rolled my eyes in embarrassment. I muttered to Col. Sutherland “this idiot is going to get us killed.” Capt. Lane looked at the Col. And me and said “Do you believe this kid he will be a Handful.”

The general looked at Dillon shook his head and ordered us all to “Move out we need to get to safety.”

Chapter 2

We now found our self’s seven soldiers and a civilian stranded with limited weapons and all most no way home. We scouted the forest looking for any sign of civilization, all we found were a few snakes and some birds. “Well there is dinner” ,said 2^nd Lt. Jennifer Combs. Caption Megan Lane jumped from the log she was sitting on, she gave use hand signs to stop all talking and movement.

“Get down get Down!” screamed the General. Suddenly we spotted two German soldiers walking through the woods. In a quiet voice General Berwick said “I don’t think they seen us.” Private Luke Nixon then looked at the General and asked “What is the plan sir.”

The General took a deep breath and whispered “Plan there is no plan.” Staff Sergeant Heart spoke up and said “Lets ambush the mother Fuckers!” “We need to take them and take them fast”, I said. They all looked at Sergeant Heart and I and said “Good Idea.” We all grabbed our guns and silently moved around them using the trees for cover. We then swiftly and silently attacked them. We jumped out with our guns drawn, ready to shoot. They were surrounded and out numbered. We couldn’t let them go, they knew the area and would for sure alert their friends to our position. We acted cunning and fast, these Germans were young and we couldn’t just kill them in cold blood. So Col. Mike Sutherland grabbed a log and knocked the Germans incapacitated. We then gathered our gear fast and went in search of a new place to set camp. We now have been searching for hours, but yet to find a good place to set camp. The sun was setting and night was soon upon us. It was now near sun down and we had to settle down for the night. We took turns Watching for enemy patrols, but the night was calm. We dint get much sleep though, we mostly spent the night staring at the stars wondering if we would ever get home and see our loved ones ever again.

Chapter 3

It was now dawn and the birds were churping. We got up and all stretched. We decided to gather our gear and continue our quest to find a more fitting shelter and maybe a way home. The food was getting boring, it was the same thing every day and night snake and birds. I would just die for some fish, chicken, or even turkey would be good but it was highly unlikely. “Listen” said Gen. Berwick. “That’s a god dam plane I tell you” commented Lt. Combs. “Move into the forest it’s probly a enemy craft” ordered Gen. Berwick.  “No” screamed Sgt. Heart “That sounds American and I believe it’s a F-14A Tomcat. Suddenly the noise grew louder and the sound changed to a roar. “I think he’s been hit” I said.  There was a loud splash off in the distance. We ran towards the splash. “There it is in the ocean” shouted Col. Southerland. We ran to the shore as we seen the Pilot surface. “He’s alive he’s alive” shouted Pvt. Nixon. The pilot swam the the shore and stood up. He was un buckling his helmet clips. The General asked “Who are you?” The pilot removed his helmet and said “Sorry to drop in on you guys, My names Commander Samantha Lezek United States Navy. Private Nixon was first to reply “Holy Shit you’re a Girl.” The female Commander looked at Nixon and raised her eye brow “Excuse me Pvt.” General Berwick butted in and asked her what she was doing here. She told us she was sent by the us. To search for missing soldiers. “Well looks like you found us” said Sgt. Heart.

We decided to set camp near by and listen to more of her story. We set camp and explained our situation to her. She was a little worried that we were shot down and have been searching for days. I decided we should gather some wood for our fire. Pvt. Nixon and Col. Southerland went to get some wood to feed our fire. While the rest of us decided to fish for dinner using sticks and rope. The fish were biting like crazy and it was going to be a good eating night. A loud shot rang through the forest and another shot fallowed it. We all ran into the woods to see what happened. We stopped cold in our tracks when we seen Col. Southerland next to a Russian soldier on the ground. They both were laying in a huge puddle of blood. “He’s dead sir I already checked” Said Nixon. Gen. Berwick looked into Luke’s eyes and asked “What happened Pvt.” Pvt. Nixon looked at the Gen. and said “Col. Southerland wanted to split up so we could cover more ground and get the wood faster, I raced back after I heard the first gun shot but it was too late I did see the Russian running away so I shot him. We helped dig a grave and placed our Fallen friend and comrades in it. We then took some dirt and covered him, words were said and tears shed. We turned back and headed back to our camp site.

Back at the camp site Gen. Berwick gave a deep soulful speech on the loss of Col. Mike Southerland and now we must find the strength to continue on and find a way home. At the end of the speech Gen. Alexander Berwick looked at us and asked Staff Sergeant Christine Heart and Private Luke Nixon to step forward. The Gen. then looked at them and said “Im proud to be your commanding officer and im dam proud to serve along side you” Im honored to call you my men and for out standing action these past few days I want to award you two promotions. Nixon im pleased to award you the rank of Private First Class and now you Staff Sergeant Heart I promote you to the rank of Sergeant First Class. We all were happy for them and we stood up a started to fix a place to sleep. The Gen. said “Im not done yet” “Maj. Nolan Hamilton get your ass over here” shouted Berwick  “Sir?” I said. He smiled and said Nolan ill need a Lt. Col. do You want the promotion? “Sure sir” I said. The general then said “that is all lets get some shut eye.”

The new rank was a little hard to get used to. Vie been a major for three years and now all of a sudden im a Lt. Col. The Gen. decided to get  a move on in the morning possibly locate a enemy base. Tomorrow shall be a very interesting day I just hope we all make it out safe and sound.

Chapter 4

Today is our big day. We are just now packing our gear up for today’s mission. All our men and women have their guns ready. We armed up and moved out looking for a enemy base.

We traveled for hours and came upon a rocky cliff. What we seen would shake us up. Hundreds of dead bodies American, French, Canadian, and British soldiers in a huge mass grave of destruction. We were going the head down to the bottom of the cliff when suddenly we came under heavy gun fire, bullets flying every where. We drew our guns and returned fire. There were five Germans shooting rapidly at us.

“Good job Men” I shouted. “We got them, “we got them we got them all” said Sgt. Heart. I looked around to celebrate with the General but my eyes came upon my worst fear, a loss of life. The General was shot up bad. I rushed over to him only to find he was long dead. I looked to make sure every one else had made it.

Capt. Lane and Lt. Combs were on the ground motionless. I gained my composer and ran over to them. I was just prying that they were alive. Surely enough when I got over to them Capt. Lane popped her head up and said “Im ok sir I think I bruised my ribs” Lt. Combs then rolled on her side and looked at me then said “Now that is what I call high quality ass kicking!” Capt. Lane let out a small laugh. I helped the Lt. and Capt. Up and we begun to call out for Nixon and Dillon. There was no response so we called out again but still no response.  “Sir we need to get the fuck out of here A.S.A.P. we have German & Russian tanks coming straight for us, they look to be no more then 10 miles away and there closing fast!” shouted Sgt. Heart.

“Move, move, move!” I ordered. We ran back into the wooded forest.  “Sir we need to get out of here now, those tanks are coming by the hundreds” Said Lt. Combs. “Ok we need to go before we get spotted” I said. “Sir some one is creeping in the trees ahead” said Lane. I shouted at the direction the person was at “Who are you identify your self’s now or we will be forced to shoot.” The person came closer and emerged from the shade of the trees.” The man had on a US. Army uniform and held the rank of Lt. Col.

The Lt. Col. Identified himself as Lt. Col. Andrew Renolds United States Army. He then waved to some one in the forest. Out came more soldiers a Maj. a Cpl. a Sgt. and a Capt. Renolds then said these are my men Major Alan Russell, Captain Patrick O’Brien, Sergeant Robert Mc Dougall ,and Cpl. Jeffrey Owens. I suggested we talk late due to we had a fuckin armada on or ass. We all headed for the campsite that Renolds and his men were staying at.

Chapter 5

Upon arriving at their camp site Lt. Col Renolds gave a speech to all of us. He wanted to spy on the armada of enemy tanks to possibly learn the location of the main local German base in the area. I spoke up and pointed out that I could not let my men march into such a suicidal mission. That hard headed ass, looked at me and said “Excuse me Lt. Col Hamilton but I do believe Im in command now!” “That’s enough” I thought to my self. I then raised my voice to a commanding tone and said “Lt. Col Renolds from what I know we both are of the same country, branch and rank and this was my command, so if you have any problem you will speak to me and you will fallow my command is that clear!” Renolds shouted back “Hamilton you must have not been counting your days, you have only been a Lt. Col for a little over a day, I have been a Lt. Col for two months so unless you want to be demoted I suggest you sit your ass down and understand im in charge.” I looked into that fool’s eyes and said “Yes Sir!” Gather your weapons and move Out.” Said Renolds to us all.

Renolds moved his group of men out, mine were waiting till we got the ok sign to move out. My men gathered behind me waiting for the ok, Commander Samantha Lezek

 poke up and said “Sir I really don’t think this is a good idea.” “As do I Sam” I said. Samantha  grabbed her gun and raised it, she fired one round. Lt. Col Renolds fell to his knees, his men stopped and carried him back to us. “Lt. Col Renolds is unfit for command.” Said Major Russell. “Looks like your in charge Nolan” said Captain Lane.  Renolds looked at the gun shot wound in his left leg and said “guess it was a bad idea Nolan, looks like its up to you now” I looked at Renolds and said “Sir I will not be continuing your last command I have other plans”

I took a deep breath and at all the brave men that I must command. I then said “My first order will be” Cpl. Jeffery Owens interrupted with a shout “Get down!” Owens jumped towards me and knocked me to the ground. Capt. Lane and Lt. Combs sprung into action. They quickly spotted two Russian snipers arched in the trees. With no hesitation Megan&Jennifer opened fire on the Russians. One Russian fell to the ground fast. The other  managed to hit Combs in the arm knocking her to the ground. The Lt. however got one last shot off before she hit the ground, the shot killed the Russian. Sgt. McDougall was a army field medic , he rushed to treat Combs. The sound of a sniper riffle grabbed our attention Capt. O’Brien turned around and shot the Russian standing behind us. We quickly relised  Capt. Lane was shot in the head . I yelled to  McDougall to report their situation. He replied “The Lt. is ok sir.” I yelled back “And Lane?” he looked at me and shook his head no.

Sergeant First Class Christine Heart looked at me and asked if she could go pay her respects to Lane. I granted her request. I dint even think that Lane and Heart were even friends. I watched Heart as she went to her knees and stroke the hair of the lifeless body of Captain Megan Lane. When Sgt. Heart walked back to me, I asked “how well did you know her?” “She was my girlfriend sir.” Said a crying Heart. I replied “I dint know you were even , Heart interrupted me and said “Yes and I hope you can keep it as a secret Nolan”

I Called my men in so we could get the hell out of here before more of us die. “we are all accounted for” said McDougall. “Are we ready to go sir?” asked O’Brien. I walked over to Combs who was just sitting on the ground and I said “Combs we need to go.” She looked at me and in a semi silent voice muttered “Sir, I cant move my legs… I cant fell them at all” I called over O’Brien and McDougall, I gave them orders to carry Combs, I dint tell them she couldn’t walk. We checked to make sure we were all ready and we moved on out.

Chapter 6

We were walking trough the woods under the thick cover of night. It was a new moon so it was pretty much pitch black. The sun would rise in a matter of a few minutes. We chose not to use our flashlights in attempt to keep hidden from enemy patrols. All was going well until Sgt. Heart shouted “Grenade!” We all scattered in different directions. I jumped over towards Sgt. Heart. We grabbed Lt. Combs and the three of us crawled into a huge hollow tree. Grenade blast rang out for a minute. Heart grabbed three grenades and through one out in the direction of the gunfire, With each throw  she yelled “This is for blowing my dam helicopter up, This is for killing Megan, and this one is for any one who has to see your fuckin face!” The blast from her grenades was the last blast to be heard. All was silent, we waited a few minutes before we came out from are shelter in the base of the hollow tree.

The Sun was slowly rising over the hills, we could now see the massive destruction and loss that was around us. Hundreds of bodies of our men and theirs lay on the ground. The Sgt. and I sat Combs on a rock. We moved through the mass grave of bodies in search of any of our survivors. We spent a good while searching through the bodies counting our losses. The good news was no one was missing, the bad was it looked like no one was alive. Amazingly two of the bodies started to move. We had two survivors Cmdr. Lezek and Maj. Russell managed to make it some how. We helped them up and made up our minds to move out before enemy back up comes.

I had Maj. Russell and Lezek carry Combs until we find a new campsite to rest. I told them about her being unable to walk and they all understood how important it was now to watch over her. We pitched our tents and prepared food. We sat down to are usual meal of snake. We then heard voices coming closer to our camp site, we grabbed our guns and waited to see what would happen next. “Sir!” yelled one of the figures. The two figures came closer, we raised our guns ready to fire. We held fire when we could now see the two figures were the missing Dillon Hunt and Pvt. Nixon.

Luke and Dillon came closer and sat down beside us. We asked them where have they been? “When we became under fire from those five Germans we decided to run off to find help, we figured you guys would make it and if not at least we would be rescued” Explained Nixon. “Just don’t make a habit of it” I said. “So who is the new guy”, asked Dillon. Im Major Allan Russell US Army. We met up with another group of soldiers I explained to Nash and Nixon. I then told them about how we lost a lot of our and their men during a few run ins. “Where is General Berwick?” asked Nixon. I explained that he died a while back. I think we should turn in for the night suggested Combs. We put out the camp fire and drifted asleep.

Chapter 7

The next morning we ate some barriers and talked about what has happened during our mission. Half way through the talk Maj. Russell interrupted and asked why don’t I take a battle field promotion to full Col. “I guess I could” I said. “well no one has any objections so lets do it” commented Combs.

“Ok im a Col. Now” I said.

Now that I am a full power Col. I would like to give out promotions I announced. “Combs I promote you to Capt., I allow you to skip a rank due to your injury during battle, and Heart I promote you to Fist Sergeant, Nixon I promote you to Cpl. , and now for you Allan for your braveness and helping my men I give you a promotion to Lt. Col” that was my announcement as a Col. I then ordered my newly promoted men and women, and Dillon to move out.

We were walking through the forest when we came to the end of trees. We could see a little polish town at the bottom of the valley below the steep hill we stood on. We started to run down the hills and make our way to the polish town. Poland was a neutral country in the war and went to found on the Germans & Russians. We were hoping the polish government would protect us and return us to US soil and end our nightmare.

We reached the bottom of the hill and were now in the valley. We rushed towards the nearest person. Suddenly we heard screams and gun shots erupt. Their were some Russians and Germans trying to take over the town. We joined in the fight and held off the Enemy forces. The enemy forces were being pushed back and they soon after retreated. We explained our mission and what happened to the Civilians. The Local polish military contact the United States Government. The US was sending helicopters to pick us up. It looked like we were about to reach our end to this hell hole of a mission.

Chapter 8

We took our time to help the polish medics treat the wounded. We were treating a injured polish women when Sgt. heart alerted us to more Russians coming. I ordered my men to help hold them off, when out of no where more American soldiers, they stood beside us and helped kill the last of the Russians.

We introduced our self’s to the other Americans. The Female with the rank of Capt. Introduced herself as Capt. Kira Combs USAF. She then looked at Capt. Jennifer Combs and said “Your Alive!” I looked at both Jennifer and Kira and asked them “What is up?” Jen replied “Kira is my big sister” Kira looked close at jenny and said “What is with the rank sis you were a 2^nd LT. last I seen you?” Jen explained to Kira and her men about what has happened. Kira introduced her people as Airman Chad Elliott, Tech Sgt. Walter Lockwood, 2^nd Lt. Deanna Elliott and 1^st Lt. Dawn Murphy. We all suddenly stopped talking. The loud noise of helicopters shattered the silence. “Oh my god there here!” shouted Nixon “Time to go home kids” I said “Lets get going!” said Jennifer.

“It’s an armada” shouted Heart. A giant roar came over us as we seen American, French, British, and Canadian aircraft flew over. Jaguar GR.mx1 and F14-A led the armada fallowed by AH-1 helicopters and then two F-117 Night Hawks were the end of the armada.

Soon after two Chinook helicopters landed and we boarded them.

It was a pretty smooth ride granted we had to refuel here and there. We all shared a smile and were cheerful of seeing our loved ones once again. I watched Heart most of the time during the trip. I was worried about her after we lost Lane. Jennifer broke my attention when she announced us that she was going to be a mommy. Nixon spoke up and said and that makes me a dad. We congratulated them and talked about the good news.

Chapter 9

A distress call came across the radio. It was the pilot of Kira’s helicopter that her and her team was on. It was hit and was going down over the Atlantic Ocean. We were only a few minutes behind them. We reached their crash site as we spotted the Chinook sinking to the bottom of the dark blue of the ocean floor. We suddenly spotted two head surface. I gave the order to our pilot Capt. Violet Harper to lower our Chinook. Sgt. Heart threw the rescue latter out and we helped the two survivors up, it happened to be Lockwood and Kira Combs. We waited a few seconds to see if any one else surfaced, but no one did so we had to move on.

We flew low over a small Russian boat. We pulled up as fast as we could. We were now flying at a pretty high Altitude, but some how a Russian soldier managed to throw a live grenade in our Chinook before we pulled up. With quick thinking Luke Nixon grabbed the grenade and jumped out of the helicopter grenade in hand. All I could figure is that he knew if he just threw it the grenade would be able to blow us up and if he were holding or on top of it the blast would cause less damage. We turned or heads away as we could hear the grenade go off and blood splatter covered the Chinook and us. We had to keep going if we were to make it to safety.

We were almost to the US. coast. We just had to hold on a little longer. As we neared the glory of the United States Coast two enemy fighter jets were on our tail. They shot at our Chinook and hit our tail. We were hit but the Chinook was still in the air, however it was a bitch to fly. We could now actually see the coast and it was only a minute away.

Capt. Harper was flying her dam best, dodging bullets from enemy fighters. One of the fighters managed to hit our left side thus causing our Chinook to spin around and around. There was no doubt we were going to crash, it was just a matter of crash in the ocean or crash on land if we could make it. “We are not going to make it” yelled Dillon Nash. “Abandon the helicopter”, I ordered. We all jumped into the freezing Atlantic. We were just yards from the shore. We swam as fast as our beat up bodies could.

We reached the shore of the US. It felt rich, sandy, and peaceful. We were not fully safe yet, there was a platoon of enemy soldiers behind us. Walter, Dillon, and Kira grabbed their guns and told the rest of us to get the hell out of there. They were going to hold the platoon while we made a run to safety. So we ran for a few miles to a near by Marine base. We alerted the base commander of the battle at the shore and the brave honorable Marines rushed to aid our comrades. We stayed behind however to try to contact any other military bases in the area that we need assistance.

Suddenly over the radio came the greatest words to ever hit my ears, it was The President and he said “Im ordering all men and women of all military branch to seize all fire and actions…. The war is over I repeat the war is finally over peace is among us again.” For the first time in years I heard true silence. It was truly the sound of peace. The remaining German & Russian troops lowered their guns and later returned back to their country. A peace treaty among the world was in the process of being signed. We later found out that young Dillon Nash died doing his best to help us. Kira and Walter however made it safely.

Chapter 10

It has been three years since the end of the war, and since all of us have been in the same room together. I received a letter a few days ago from Jennifer Combs about getting the old gang back together. The plan was a meeting at a local bar in DC so we could get caught up in the years. I was happy to reply to her letter that I would for sure come if she had every thing set up. I received a phone call in my office from her and she told me where to meet every one and when to be there.

I went out that night with my fiancé Samantha Lezek . It turns out Jennifer Combs is currently holding the rank of Lt Col. and is proudly working at the pentagon. I was happy hear she gave birth to her healthy baby boy Kyle a few months after the war ended. Her sister Kira Combs just received a promotion to Major and is stationed in New Hampshire. Kira is also married to Alan Russell. Allan received high honors after the war and recently retired from the air force as a Lt Col. Capt. Violet Harper the pilot of the Chinook that rescued us made it from the Chinook crash and is currently a Major and is doing well. Walter Lockwood has made an amazing growth in rank and is currently a Chief Master Sergeant. The loud mouth son of a bitch Christine Heart Retired from the Army and then re entered only this time she completed the Army academy so she is now 1^st Lt. Christine Heart, Heart is also starting to date my little sister Shannon. Sam besides being my fiancé is a Vice Admiral (Lower) in the Navy and commands her own naval carrier. I my self received a promotion to Brigadier General. Later I got another promotion the Major General and held that rank for two years. I then decided to retire from the Army and chased down a new job path. I ran for president of the United States and I am pleased to say that I am now the president of the United States of America. I have to say im enjoying my life and Sam and I are now planning our up coming wedding.

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