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You know, as a soldier you are forever faceless, at least in the view of anyone not serving. When news is broadcast that "another" soldier has died people say "isn't it terrible, why are we fighting this war" and then they go on about their lives. It's a false sorrow, a politically correct sorrow. No one knows the pain except his comrades, but they continue to fire there rifle through watery eyes and reload their weapons with shaking hands. The soldier is not human, not to the public, and… Continue

“A man’s death is more his comrade’s affair than his own.”



I stumbled over the body as I scrambled to get behind the car, Able had carelessly thrown it aside. I could see the blood now, Jesus how many times did Greenman shoot him! was my only thought when I saw the pool around Josh. That was before I heard the screaming. The horrifying screams of a dieing man will never leave you, never. Josh had a huge bite wound right into his throat, blood was pumping out of… Continue

Josh came over to me and crouched down next to me.



“Shit, you ok buddy”



“No not so fucking good really, I just killed her. Why don’t they care, I don’t even know her and I care more than them!”



“Ok, Will, pull yourself together the Chinook will be here with our transport soon enough” The sergeant said gently “You can collapse later, when we are back at base, right now we got a job to do.”



I climbed to my feet and took in a deep breath. I could taste… Continue

The landing was pretty normal. We hit the deck the sergeant waved us off to the left of the landing zone we set up a line facing the town. We watched as Chalk three landed in the road a kilometer away, at the power plant, the police were already there with them.



That is where normality ended. We stood weapons ready waiting for the Chinooks arrived with our land transport. But it wasn’t long before we saw figures moving towards us from the town. We couldn’t see what exactly was going… Continue

No one spoke much as we stood in the dusty field just off the air base, not that we could have heard each other anyway. They had been shipping stuff in for the last twelve hours, none stop, mostly medical supplies, food, bottled water, body bags. Needless to say the cargo planes made a hell of a noise. It did not come as a huge surprise to see the body bags, but it woke me up to how bad things were getting out there.



None of us knew exactly what was going on. Two theories seemed to… Continue