Creative Writing: The Outbreak Of War

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Colonel Magnus was furious over the loss of the team at the airport. He ordered the culprits that were responsible hunted down and executed. He became even angrier when the reports came in that they couldn’t find those responsible for the attack. Not only were his men killed, but all of the aircraft that they could have potentially used were destroyed. However, the Colonel recognized there would be other opportunities to gather aircraft, since they were now headed to Harrisburg, which was the headquarters for the 28th Infantry Division. He didn’t expect anyone to be home, but there might be some useful information he could get from anything left behind. Harrisburg also had airports, both commercial and civilian, in which he was interested. He still wanted to check out what was going on in Kenova, West Virginia and the 19th Special Forces group, the unit that he felt was currently stalking him. The truth of the matter was that the 19th SF Group out of West Virginia had pulled its teams out, replaced by teams from Camp Parks. …show more content…
Two Humvees hit IEDs on the road designated as the primary approach into the city. As soldiers hurried to help the men in the Humvees machine gun fire erupted from the left side of the convoy; the fire coming from the woods cutting down three soldiers. As the Humvees burned and men died the soldiers of the convoy returned fire, firing wildly into the woods where the machine gun fire had come from. However, after the initial fire from the machine gun had stopped, the convoy commander, Major Harrington called a cease fire and got together a team to move into the woods. The Major organized two teams quickly and they moved to assault the location where the machine gun fire had come from, but when they found the position no one was home. They found a lot of the machine gun’s brass, but not the

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