Personal Narrative: Suicide Hostage

I peeked around the corner and saw the blue light from what I Assumed to be suicide vest or other remote explosives.. I heard a faint screaming sound and quickly realized that their was a hostage that was trying to escape a sound from what was probably a sock stuff in his mouth.

All of a sudden it went from a simple infiltrate and kill to a deadly hostage situation. I silently backed out of the room to regroup with my group and figure out our order of operation, now the hostage and any other civilians safety are our number one priority over everything. We couldn’t afford more casualties after numerous fatalities of our operators and civilians alike.

We broke up and I headed to the building to hook a rappel line to make an entrance with thermite …show more content…
I heard screaming and started to make a b line for the next room and quickly was hit in the face with the butt of an assault rifle, before they were able flip it around and fire two bullets from my m9 flew into him without me even realizing that I had drawn and let two bursts into his head. Second nature. My nose was draining blood like water out of a faucet but adrenaline was moving my legs before I could even think about it. I flew into the other room ready for whatever was there but saw Spike and Geo desperately pumping on a young boys stomach and putting quikclot powder where a barrage of shotgun bullets had hit his stomach. After another thirty seconds the boy started coughing up blood and screaming as we rushed him out to the waiting helicopter to take him to the nearest trauma center. That was it, we told the police that the building was safe and pushed through the attack of reporters and questions that we couldn’t even think about an answer to. We got to the station and cleaned out weapons and I got my nose snapped back into place and after a slur of blurred vision and cursing I decided that I was ready to go home to my wife and kid. Easy at