NationStates Jolt Archive

Zack Obleman pulled out his parachute chord and sucked in a deep breath of air as his parachute opened, pulling him from his incredibly quick plunge to the earth. He saw a wave of other white parachutes open all around him, pulling more men from a plunge into hard earth.
As he and his buddies slowly fell to the earth, tracers and bullets were whizzing by them, they spotted their landing zone and began manuvering and pulling at their chords to land in that area. Zack's landing was very soft, but some men around him muffled cries of pain as they bent ankles and legs, sometimes breaking them.
Now the real fighting started. Bullets were pelting their positions and they quickly ran into the availiable tree cover nearby. Zack pulled out his M-75 and began firing back at the b*stards on the other side of the field. As he was suppressing the enemy, more of his company began crawling towards the enemy position and taking it out with heavy fire and grenades.

Now the counter-attack by the government against the rebel forces in the civil war had begun. This was just one of 2 islands to be taken, this the larger and equally defended one.
Armor could be heard slowly rumbling towards the 120 paratroopers in the area...

Fierce bombardment of the company and armor attacks from the south was really shaking some of the greenhorns. One man so far had gone insane and just ran at an oncoming tank with grenade pins pulled, exploding on contact and somewhat damaging the tank, incinerating him.
Zack just watched on and kept shooting. A L.A.W. was fired on an oncoming tank, blowing its front to pieces, and it spewed forth burning crewmembers. It was almost surreal. The tanks began to retreat as air craft began precision bombing their flanks and rear.
Now the cries could be heard; “MEDIC!!” “AHHH! IT BURNS!” “OH MY GOD, I THINK MY LEG’S OVER THERE!”. The cries were chilling. The men began digging trenches and setting up base camp for battalion, and set up a perimeter of light machine guns.

0500. We’ve set up battalion HQ and prisoners have been coming in all night. Able, Charlie, and Dog companies have joined us. So far our company, Fox company, has taken about 13 casualties with 5 of them dead. The smell from the Aid Station is sickening, and since about 0300 we’ve only had small Lappie probes. Those b*stards are tricking us at every turn, and booby traps are all over the place, injured a couple of us. Easy and Baker company are missing, and we think they were dropped dead center in enemy command. I hope they gave ‘em hell.

OOC: Now. Get a character and make that person fight his way through the island with his or her company and squad. Easy and Baker companies are isolated on the other side of the island and there are litteraly thousands of men all over the island along with armor. The East and North coasts are heavily fortified disallowing naval incursion. think of this as D-Day combined with Bastogne, just at about 2250 AD.