task force responded with four mrap vehicles with 50mm machine guns mounted on top. The Taliban had attacked the building; they started at the bottom floor working their way to the top. Once they reached the top they would take RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade launchers and PPK machine guns and try to terrorize the city.
David’s task force assigned the mission to stop them before they reached the top floor. David had no idea why America was back in Afghanistan they left in 2014 and he was back there in 2020 flushing the Taliban out of a hotel. That would be when he decided after serving for ten years in the army he had had enough.
When his task force entered, the building there was no resistance. They started to clear the rooms on the bottom floor one room at a time. They set up guards to make sure no one could enter the hotel, and the Afghanistan police blocked off all the roads going to and leaving the hotel. They cleared the few civilians out of the rooms and had them leave the hotel. They were accompanied by a squad of Afghani army people, they were there as support to David’s task force and for translators. Everything was going ok until they started clearing the second floor and that is when David’s nightmares began.
He was clearing a room when he saw an AK 47 rifle’s muffle point out from behind a desk in the room. He opened up with three round bursts from his m-4 rifle killing a small girl who was no more that eight years old. That was three years ago and he still has constant nightmares and there is not a night that goes by that he does not see that little girls face in his dreams. He wakes up to a cold sweat and shivers every night, he cannot shake the nightmare it is always there to haunt his nights. He left the Army as a platoon Sgt, E-7 SFC.
He has a scar where a 7.62x39 mm round tore part of his thigh away, he has no limp when he walks but at times, he has pain where the bullet tore a chunk of his thigh away. He has a bronze star with a V for valor and a purple heart. The Bronze star was when he rescued a fire team that was pinned down when their Humvee broke down. They came under attack by the Taliban.
One of the fire team members shot dead and the other three would not live much longer. David saw the Taliban’s location and crashed his Humvee into it killing one of them and then getting out and rushing their location with his m-4 he killed the remaining four people. This allowed for the three remaining members of the fire team to live to see another day. David has not talked to anyone about Afghanistan and he knows one day he will have to, he is not ready for that day to come yet.
Back at the camp of the group of four people, who leader was Bryant. The men discussed everything that has happened and what would their next plan be. David told Bryant about camp 100 A and asked him if he knew about the people there. He knew some people were in that area but he never went back to check, there was too much happening around his camp. The Chinese had made patrols and they knew some people were out there but they did not find them yet.
This caused Bryant to keep a low profile. During the attack on the two Chinese at the house they seized two RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade launchers. David wanted Bryant to send two of his people back to camp 100 A in the morning with one RPG-7 and ammo for it, along with four AK-47 rifles and ammo. He wanted the two people to stay at camp 100 A and help out there. Bryant and the other person could go with him, George and Jerry.
He told Bryant they had to check one of the big areas near a city and get more people if they want to have a chance. They had no chance with five people. They would leave in the morning and head towards the city, with any luck they would find Americans along the way. They would make a gurney with the parachute string and branches they found at the house and use it to carry the extra weapons and ammo they acquired.
They had enough food and water for a
David’s task force assigned the mission to stop them before they reached the top floor. David had no idea why America was back in Afghanistan they left in 2014 and he was back there in 2020 flushing the Taliban out of a hotel. That would be when he decided after serving for ten years in the army he had had enough.
When his task force entered, the building there was no resistance. They started to clear the rooms on the bottom floor one room at a time. They set up guards to make sure no one could enter the hotel, and the Afghanistan police blocked off all the roads going to and leaving the hotel. They cleared the few civilians out of the rooms and had them leave the hotel. They were accompanied by a squad of Afghani army people, they were there as support to David’s task force and for translators. Everything was going ok until they started clearing the second floor and that is when David’s nightmares began.
He was clearing a room when he saw an AK 47 rifle’s muffle point out from behind a desk in the room. He opened up with three round bursts from his m-4 rifle killing a small girl who was no more that eight years old. That was three years ago and he still has constant nightmares and there is not a night that goes by that he does not see that little girls face in his dreams. He wakes up to a cold sweat and shivers every night, he cannot shake the nightmare it is always there to haunt his nights. He left the Army as a platoon Sgt, E-7 SFC.
He has a scar where a 7.62x39 mm round tore part of his thigh away, he has no limp when he walks but at times, he has pain where the bullet tore a chunk of his thigh away. He has a bronze star with a V for valor and a purple heart. The Bronze star was when he rescued a fire team that was pinned down when their Humvee broke down. They came under attack by the Taliban.
One of the fire team members shot dead and the other three would not live much longer. David saw the Taliban’s location and crashed his Humvee into it killing one of them and then getting out and rushing their location with his m-4 he killed the remaining four people. This allowed for the three remaining members of the fire team to live to see another day. David has not talked to anyone about Afghanistan and he knows one day he will have to, he is not ready for that day to come yet.
Back at the camp of the group of four people, who leader was Bryant. The men discussed everything that has happened and what would their next plan be. David told Bryant about camp 100 A and asked him if he knew about the people there. He knew some people were in that area but he never went back to check, there was too much happening around his camp. The Chinese had made patrols and they knew some people were out there but they did not find them yet.
This caused Bryant to keep a low profile. During the attack on the two Chinese at the house they seized two RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade launchers. David wanted Bryant to send two of his people back to camp 100 A in the morning with one RPG-7 and ammo for it, along with four AK-47 rifles and ammo. He wanted the two people to stay at camp 100 A and help out there. Bryant and the other person could go with him, George and Jerry.
He told Bryant they had to check one of the big areas near a city and get more people if they want to have a chance. They had no chance with five people. They would leave in the morning and head towards the city, with any luck they would find Americans along the way. They would make a gurney with the parachute string and branches they found at the house and use it to carry the extra weapons and ammo they acquired.
They had enough food and water for a
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