A Soldiers Worst Nightmare Pt.1

My name is Jeremy Hareford, I am a Corporal in the U.S. Army 75th Ranger Regiment, a couple weeks ago we were deployed to Iraq.

We set up camp at a Classified base just 5 miles outside of Fallujah. This military base was kind of small, it had a couple state of the art AH-64 Apache’s capable of wiping out a whole city with their combined firepower, some brand new M1A3 Abrams’, and about 20 Humvees and Personnel carriers.

There seemed to be maybe only about 150 people on base, a good number but a little small considering the tactical importance of Fallujah. We were told a cell of Isis terrorists had taken over the city once again, and our job was to take it over, again.

After we got our shit set up in the Barracks our CO called us in for our Mission Briefing. Colonel Braddock stud in front of the projector screen with detailed imaging of the AO.

He demanded in a coarse, loud voice, “Sit your asses down, close your mouths and open your ears!”.

Everyone promptly found their seats, we knew that there was no time for shits and giggles.

“We have received reports that the ISIS Cell occupying the city of Fallujah has managed to get their hands on a Biological weapon. The only information we were able to accumulate on this matter is the fact that it’s Soviet made, most likely locked away and forgotten about before the collapse of the Soviet Union.”.

The tension in the briefing room was so thick you could cut it with a knife. The expressions on our faces were cold, emotionless. A couple of greenies in the back were dripping with fear of what is to come from this mission.

“On March 31st, 0600 hours, ISIS activated the biological weapon in the center of the city, we sent in a squad that specializes in Biological Warfare to investigate, they went dark after sending this transmission.”.

The Colonel then clicked on an audio file on his computer.

I sat there wondering what kind of weapon could silence an entire city, how could someone be so cruel as to unleash it upon innocent people!?

The silence in the room was broken by the sound of desperation, the sound of pure terror.

“This is Alpha Mike requesting immediate assistance at grid coordinates 5 Alpha, Delta, Sierra, 40327155, our position is being overrun with enemy combatants! I repeat, our position is being overrun with enemy combatants!”.

In the background of the transmission it was absolute chaos, there was gunfire from standard M4 Assault Rifles, soldiers yelling to each other.

The only thing that was missing was the sound of returning gun fire... The only thing I heard besides our guys yelling and firing were these awful, screams. They sounded... inhuman...

I looked around the Briefing room to see the cold, emotionless faces fill with a look of disbelief mixed with horror.

“Our perimeter is down, we are running out of men, those things... they’re too fucking fast!” he said, as if they were being attacked by super human zombies, but that’s impossible... right?

“FUCK IT, THERE ARE TOO MANY! STAY AWAY FROM THE CITY! I REPEAT, STAY AWAY FROM THE CI- “. The transmission then cut to static.

The tough as nails hard ass soldiers that filled that briefing room were thought to be fearless warriors, but every single bone in our bodies were filled with anxiety.

From the back of the room one of the greenies stood up and shouted, “We’re supposed to go into that city after whatever the hell happened to those guys?!”.

We all stared at him, he slowly sat down after realizing he sounded cowardly.

The Colonel then continued with the mission briefing, “You will be using special issue HAZMAT Gear for this operation, it is light and protective. The biological weapon released seems to be an aerosol, so if your suit is punctured you will be considered a threat and put into quarantine for observation until it is verified that you are not a danger to your fellow soldiers. You will enter the city via armored personnel carrier and will be escorted by two Apache choppers until you are just a mile out, we don’t need to spread this thing around farther by flying over the city. It is now 1900 hours, you will roll out at 0 hour and link up with SEAL Team 2 outside the city, they will be marked by strobes. Your mission is to provide security for them incase shit gets hairy; they will be making their way to the center of the city to recover the weapon so that we can gain further information on it. Any questions?”.

I looked around, everyone sat calm, quietly, with a blazing fire in their eyes. “Perfect! Dismissed!”.

Submitted April 03, 2019 at 05:26AM by ReconArcher https://ift.tt/2VbFKg5