comm id: Herdo Shepard, captain of the Blowing Rock / Major of the marine details involved
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Afternoon,
It has been a while since I had to do one of these reports. Normally I just haul stuff, it's been a while since I had to lead an OP. Here's my report.
yesterday I got a call from miss Cooper, requesting Bison support in Pensilvania. I was just done offloading 4000 tons of manure at Norfolk. A commander V. redline had requested it, god knows what he need 4k of manure for on a shipyard. I don't want to know, actually. When I got the call I moved to Penny and found the situation as described above. We tried to reason with the captain. After a while the Fairwind went quiet and I feared the worst.
It turned out to be a hostage situation, the liner was hijacked by, presumingly, thus far unknown Rheinland terrorists. The decision was made to enter the liner and send in the marines in order to neutralise the terrorists. I ordered Alpha, the platoon assigned to the Rock, to breach and enter. This is where the situation got messy. Here's the comm's traffic between me and the officer in charge of Alpha, Lt. Spooker.
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S = lt. Spooker
H = Herdo
S: 'allright you ****, get out there, breach and clear'
H: 'take care out there Spooker, we have app. 4000 vacationers onboard, and the crew. number of hostiles unknown'
S: 'we're on it. ..... ..... Crap, this thing's built to resiist pirate boardings. this is gonna take a shile. Get the sticky satchels out guys'
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S: 'allright, fire in the hole, get clear!'
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S: 'we're in, no baddies on sight.'
H: 'take 1 fireteam to the bridge, and take 1 team to the engine room. disable the Liner's mobility.
S: 'copy that, Alpha-1, with me, to the bridge. Alpha-2, to the engine room. Stop this crate from moving. Alpha-1 will lead the vacationers to safethy as we progress along the ship.'
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S: 'Spooker here, we found a lot of hostages, sending them your way now Rock. No hostiles found yet, they seem to be on the upper deck, but we have a mass panic down here'
H: 'sweep the lower decks but get to the bridge asap'
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H: 'first load of hostages onboard. good work. 673 still unacounted for'
S: 'we re on it. must be on the upper de- ****! MAN DOWN! shoot that *****!'
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S: 'we're knee deep in *** here. there's more of 'em than we thought. They have the hallway to the bridge pinned down and we're surrounded! could do with backup!'
H: 'sit tight Spooker, I'm getting reinforcements. headcount on baddies?'
S: 'over 20 so far, i think. they' ve got freakin' automatic weapons! how the hell did they get those onboard? I'm down 3 man already, 2 badly wounded. I need cas-evac and backup stat!'
H: 'we re enroute with Bravo, sit tight.'
S: 'Alpha 2 reports: reached engine room, heavy resistance, opening a can of whoop ass'
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S: 'where's that ***** support? there's no f-ing cover here! we need-
*static*
'... boomshine! throw it back! get- yeah?! get in there and scope that filthy strudel'
H: 'were back on site, Bravo entering the Liner now, sit tight.'
S: 'tell 'em to freakin' hurry!'
H: 'Bravo, 2 groups. 1: secure the remaining hostages and crew. 2: support Alpha-1 on deck A at the bridge. Shoot to kill. Spooker, they're all yours'
S: 'copy that.'
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S: 'Bravo-1 reports remaining hostages and crew secured, extracting them now. still a ****fest over here at the bridge. BRAVO-2 HURRY THE **** UP!'
S: 'Alpha-2 reports: engine core damaged in firefight: Core overloading. The Liner's engines may blow up before soon, scuttling the entire ship.'
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H: 'Spooker, we have all friendlies onboard and accounted for. as soon as Bravo-2 arrives I want your wounded and casualties extracted'
S: 'copy that!'
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S: Holy ****, how many did you send in? is that... is that all of Bravo? There's over 500 guys here Herdo, what the ***?!'
H: 'I just want to be thorough'
S: '**** ye! time to die kraut bitches! let's get 'em boys!'
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S: Alpha-2 reports core critical, it's going south fast.'
S: 'Alpha-2, extract. fall back to the airlock.'
S: 'baddies have barricaded themselves in and are talking about setting off a bomb. please advice'
H: 'any chance of getting in the bridge in time? '
S: 'Ive sure as hell got the men and firepower but not the time'
H: 'ok, we must consider the Liner lost at this time. Lt, fall back to the airlock. disengage and extract to the Rock'
S: 'you heard the man boys, pack it up and let's hoof it'
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S; 'come on, you lazy bums, move it! I know you always wanted to be on a luxury liner but this is work, not vacation!'
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S: 'we're in the green. we're out. Evac complete. let's get the hell away from that liner before it pops'
H: 'copy that Spooker, good work.'
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We were forced to destroy the liner after all marines had been extracted. no hostages were killed. the captain of the vessel suffered an heart attack and was taken to Philadelphia station. we did lose several men in the raid. Count stands as follows:
- 4000 (all) passengers resqued
- all crew resqued
- 17 terrorists killed in firefights
- 5 marines killed
- unknown number of terrorists killed after the destruction of the Fairwind
Overall, a succes. But this doesn't bode well. If more attacks like these occur...
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