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The last ray of sun was about to dip behind the mountains of this God-forsaken place. Most of the world see sunsets to be peaceful, but not here...ohhhhhhh nothere.
“Echo1, Echo 1 stand ready”, I said across the com. “ECHO 1 AT THE READY” replied my front man. We knew tonight was going to be a long one. There was no moon tonight and we have been picking up heavy chatter the past few days. We had intel that tonight an attack on the base was imminent. We were hoping a massive dust storm was not in the cards seeing is how the wind was already making visibility labored. My team was at the rendezvous point where we were trying to intercept the attackers to prevent penetration to the base. Do not get me wrong the Marines that were on the base were well prepared to unleash hell on whatever came their way, but the base was nestled in a valley with mountains around 3 sides. We wanted to make sure they focused on those mountains in case the enemy flanked us and got a vantage point. Seventeen Tanks were at the ready to disrupt any, and all advance from the south.............we had thenorth.
My forward sniper scout came over the com “Chaos this is Echo 3; Chaos come in.” “ Echo 3 Go for Chaos.” I have nine vehicles coming in at 1 o’clock, trucks, two heavies in back with multiple shoulder mounted. Count of approximately 35 or so hostile over. Echo 3 roger that on nine trucks at 1 o’clock, trucks, with two heavies and multiple rockets. Echo 1 you copy?” copy that Chaos on your command.” “Chaos, Echo 3” “Go Echo 3”.... we now have twelve trucks; I repeat twelve trucks. They are stopping at approximately 700 yards,standby.”
We were about a mile out from base posted on two ridges. It was like a funnel for the enemy to come through and we had the vantage point. We had good cover in the rocks and our hummers were poised and ready. We had multiple claymore traps set at every angle. My sniper overwatch (Echo 3) was now actually 500 yards in front of us on a lower ridge. They had what looked like a 45-degree advantage on the enemy, but at that angle, it was also easy to fire up at them. If they engaged, it would give away their position. There were seven of us with our AR’s, two saw guns (M249 light machine gun) and both hummers with mounted 50 cals.
“Echo 1, Chaos......Go for Chaos.... with 12 bogies we need the hummers at the ready. We need the 50’s.” QUIETLY, I s
