Foremost, it must be understood, that before any Augtouke Dragon warrior accepted the demands of their military occupational specialty, each warrior achieved the level of incredible ‘ Dragon’ physical fitness, an expert riflemen and a hand-to-hand combat elite —– sworn to defend, to the death, the 22nd Consortium Triumvirate.
In order to be in the Dragons, you could only be recruited from the designated list of 22nd CT armies of the Imperial Forces. Recruits had to have already achieved the rank of Sgt., in these said armies, before acceptance into the Corps. Only recruits with outstanding performance records with only one or two behavioral discrepancies are taken. Preferred recruits must display the desired intensity and propensity to kill. And at the same time have the characteristics of a team player. That is not easy to find. Even with the multiple types of humanoids found within the three galaxies. After basic training, which there are only three locales allowed by law within the CT, the Dragons are assign to semi- permanent duty stations, where assessments of specialty need within the four different military occupational specialties are established in each sector of the Imperial Armed Forces. Then the Sgt. candidates go off to the specialty schools to be certified.
There is also schools for parawarrior medics, who proudly answered to their slang name, Drag Docs or D2’s. They have the unique obligation to attend an abbreviated four week long session of each type of Augtouke Dragon warrior M.O.S. School. Only after they have mastered the four skill/kill sets, are they permitted to attend para-medical school. This also includes their training of basics in flying vertical take off and landing vehicles which transport their wounded soldiers. These requirements are necessary for the Drag Docs to understand and have empathy for the men and women who live and breathe in these battalions. It also gives the Docs an insight into how and what type of injuries may occur to the Dragons, in the act of performing their duties in the field.
On the beach, the call to arms, is made. The soldiers move forward toward the mounted logistics board, as their leadership officers, break up from their own counsel, to expound their plans to the Dragons. Now before the non-commissioned warriors and new officers are ‘the four leads’. “ From this moment on, until we are in the confines of the battle cruiser above us all, after the completion of the mission. On all comms, I am “ D”, boomed the voice of Captain Altodan Wakem Tord. He was of average height as Augtouke Dragons go, definitely physically fit, with blond hair and flashing long salt and pepper streaks in it. His features were very keenly shaped, eyes, nose, cheek bones and chin. As leader of this platoon, he was honored to be on his third mission in command of his new outfit of fighters. Turning promptly to the large rectangular board, the Captain advanced. Fairly close to the bottom, he drew a line across the entire length of the board, end to end, as he continued to reveal the deployment plans on the board .
On the far left end of the board Captain Tord stood, “ This mission is an extraction. We will be removing a few constituents from a targeted site. It is imperative that they be immediately relocated out of this hostile environment and taken to a secured area within 22nd CT friendly control. Our original mission to extract the President from the capital city, 200 miles inland - is no more. The members of the coup realized something was wrong. Because a portion of the family members got spooked, leaked info and began moving the family members prematurely. In any covert operation, sometimes too much information is a bad thing.”
The Captain took a long breathe, inhaling deeply, “ Now command elements of the coup detected this aberrational movement and have sequestered the President, four cabinet members and some of his capital staff. It is believed the President is kidnapped. Being taken to one of the government’s mountain fortress, our intel presumes as a prisoner. The bad guys plans are screwed. Now they’ve concocted some bogus story for the unknowing troops. They drove out the capital first. And now they’re starting the flight across the great plains, heading west into the interior of the continent to the mountains. Now. Our mission is still on. To avoid detection, we are going to pop up. To the star cruisers. Grab a few toys like ‘bot-dust’. Change camo. Pop down on them. Establish control of kill zones. Get the Pres. Pop up. Go home. ” Glancing in the direction of the 3rd Sgt. Major, Captain Tord spoke, “ Sgt. Major.”
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3rd Sgt. Major Tothon stood with his gruff voice and spoke, “ From this moment on, I will be called “ C “. Turning to the only female in the group of four leads, “ 2nd Lieutenant Gricks from this moment is called “ A “. The Master Gunny is now called, “ B “. The 3rd Sgt. Major pointed to each of ‘the four leads ‘, as he called the new names out, “ A,B,C, D. “ Second Lt. Gricks began the logistics of the mission, “ This will be a moving target ambush and extraction, with aerial support. Arrival and departure via our own VTOL landing zone.” 2nd Lt. Gricks a tall, lanky obvious female with two side arms holstered on each hip, along with a special edition light weight, silencer carbine slung tightly over one shoulder. She spoke smoothly with perfect enunciation, as her hair restrained by dark colored bans, peeked through revealing bountiful multi-toned blue hair enhancing her black skin.
Moving to the far left of the board she pointed to the line at the bottom, “This line represents the road the motorcade is traveling on.” At the far end under the line, she drew the symbol for ‘west’ . Then walking to the other end of the map board, Gricks wrote the symbol for ‘east’ under the line road. At the very, very bottom, in the center, she wrote the symbol for ’south’ . And on the top of the briefing board, she did the exact same motion, except she put the ‘north’ symbol in the center top.
To the far left, on the board above the line which represented a road, Gricks drew a craggy line upward, almost to the top of the canvas, “This is the mountain fortress, with the tunnel entrance.” Gricks drew in a dark spot where the road met, the base of the mountain. “ There are two large hills the government drilled through on the roadway to the mountain fortress. There is a half mile distance between the first hill and it’s tunnel.” The 2nd Louie drew a hill, close to the tunnel entrance of the mountain fortress. “Then there is a full mile between the small hill with its tunnel to the highest hill and its tunnel.” Gricks drew on the line road, another hill twice as high as the first one. She drew a line atop the line representing the road, creating a tunnel through each mountain.
“ Each tunnel serves two functions. As security gates and service/maintenance depots for the fortress. Atop each hill are power generators and comm stations for security robotics etc.,etc., etc. These objectives must be taken out! She paused before discussing more intel, “ Tech Sgt. Alls and 1st Sgt. Yozape have the pleasure of leading those raids on each hilltop, respectively. I also want to thank both Sgts. Right now. For instructing us all on how to “bot-dust” an assault zone after free fall drop stage, going into glide control.” There immediately was a round of polite applauds. “ Those instruction classes they taught us four months ago will come in handy. The forest we fly into is full of our bot friends.” At this juncture of her portion of the briefing, Gricks picked up a pointer at accentuate her details.
“ As you can see, there are five security road blocks. An entrance and exit for each hill. And then the entrance to the mountain, makes five total gates in our assault zone. This whole mountain complex area is paroled by robotic devices. From the small flying insect applications to super armored, large fighting platforms.” She commented with a side remark and a sigh, “ So much for the ancient laws of robotics – robots not doing any harm to humanoids.” The 2nd Louie moved to the next part of the logistics lecture, “ The list of these bot applications include unmanned armed remote units, of various sizes, war head armed aircraft, Recon bots, war mules bots and you will love this. Spiked rolling wheels that are camera enabled. When they are not wheeling along on the surface of the forest floor. They can jump on a tree, and climb up to 50 feet high. Then they send real nice pictures of you, to their friends. Both bot or humanoid. Weather should be foggy as the sun goes down. A lot of moisture on the ground, this time of year . We should arrive to the ambush zone, right at dusk ” Captain Tord approached the mapping area. ” Captain, ” said Gricks. Tord reached for the writing implement and started drawing lines. He had a pointer in his other hand.
Who are the leaders of the Coup?
What are the battle plans for the extraction?
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