Gary Roach Sanderson: A Short Story

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It was a cold winter day in the snowy mountains of Russia.A man parachuted from the air on a mission.He got separated from his team and landed in a different area.His sergeant asked his captain in he would go and find him.The soldier that landed away from his team was named Gary Roach Sanderson.The captain came out of the woods and told the sergeant that he found him and he is in tacked.When they looked up they saw military choppers hailing military trucks and mobile sam’s.After that , they went into the woods and saw enemy soldiers patrolling the streets.Then enemy trucks drove past them , but they didn’t see them at all after that the prested on.
After they pressed on they saw a three armed men and a dog patrolling the streets.Roach and his captain
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But they had to protect it from enemy reinforcements that were coming to keep Roach and Ghost from leaving with the intel.He had to get geared up and ready to fight them.So he grabbed a RPG from the armory and a light machine gun to hold off the men.Roaches man overwatch told Ghost that he spotted enemy helicopter troopers rappelling down from the choppers Roach had to take action before the troops got to the ground , he aimed the RPG at the chopper and fire a round at it and made impacted and the chopper spun out of control and crashed.More choppers incoming said the overwatcher And Roach fired another RPG round at the light bird that dropped off enemy troops , but they weren’t aware that Roach was about to fire a RPG round at them.

When more troops came Roach and ghost had to fall back to the extraction point where they will extract the intel to the US rangers General. He gave the intel to the general but later he realized that the general was betraying him so the general pointed a gun at roach and shot him and the general lit roach on fire and killed him and that is the end of my short story the

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