You are shaken awake, you open your eyes and see Grimes shaking you, "what is it?" you whisper, "time to go" he whispers back. You sit up and unlock your locker to grab your rifle, vest, and helmet, you look over and see your roommate was still asleep, "what about her?" you ask quietly, Grimes looks over and recognizes who it is, "she's in fourth squad, only first, second and our squads are going" he says. You follow him out to the squad bay where first, second, and third squads were loading up on equipment and ammo, you walk over to your squad and start gearing up.
Grimes walks over to the other squad leaders and starts talking to them, "whats going on?" you ask one of the corporals named James. James was the only one other human in the squad and the only other one, besides Grimes, that you socialized with, you both graduated from the same school, but two years apart. "I think there is a change in plans" he says, after he said this the three squad leaders called every one over, Grimes steps forward from the other two squad leaders, "change in plans,we're not going on patrol instead we have to escort a small resupply convoy out to two outposts" he says, "we will be traveling in MRAPs due to the fact that these roads have been known to have IEDs on them so be ready for anything, third squad will be in the lead vehicle, followed by first squad in the middle of the convoy and second on rear guard" he adds.
"Any questions, ok then load up and lets move out" says one of the other squad leaders, you James and the rest of your squad walk outside to the convoy waiting outside and climb into the massive MRAP in front of the convoy. You sit down in the first seat near the rear door, James and the rest of the squad sit in the rest of the seats in the rear of the MRAP. As soon as the last member of your squad climbed in you reached out and closed the rear door, sealing it, as soon as the door clicked shut the MRAP lurched into motion and one of the other soldiers in the MRAP climbed up into the turret and readied the M2.
*skip ahead*
So far the mission was going smoothly, no one had tried to shoot at the convoy on the way to the first out post, but on the way to the second one people had started throwing some rocks at the trucks. Now you were climbing back into the MRAP for the last time for the return trip to the base, this time the convoy consisted of the three MRAPs the cargo trucks were staying at the outposts. "Alright lets get out of here" says the driver as your truck takes the lead again down the road leading into the outpost, you continue down this road for two hours before James leads forward in his seat, "so I hear you have a new roommate" he says, you nod " yeah its going to take time getting used to having one" you tell him, "so whats his name?" he asks. "First off my roommate is a she and her name is--" before you could finish there was a loud explosion followed by your MRAP rolling over multiple times before coming to a rest on its right side.
You are still strapped to your seat, sitting there dazed for a minute before you realized what happened, you look up and see James unconscious also strapped into his seat. You look to your right and see the other members in your squad beginning to unstrap themselves and check each other for injuries, "status?" you hear Grimes yell from the front of the MRAP, "I got one with a broken arm" says the squad medic, he runs over and checks James, "and one K.O'd possible concussion" he adds. You attempt to unstrap yourself, but the buckle wouldn't come undone so you pulled out your knife and began cutting at the straps to free yourself. You manage to finally cut yourself free and walk over to the rear door and attempt to open it, but it wouldn't budge, "this door's jammed" you yell over your shoulder, as you turn around you can hear the sounds of rounds clanking off the roof on the MRAP followed by the sounds of the other two MRAPs' M2 heavy machine guns returning fire.
One of your other squad mates pushes on the left side door and manages to get it open, he climbs out and reaches down to start helping the rest of the squad out. You make your way towards the door and toss your rifle to him and climb out, he hands your rifle back to you. Outside the MRAP you see the real how bad the damage was, all the wheels were blown off the truck and it had rolled off the road and into a small ditch on the left side of the road.
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