TheScarletBlade
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(( this is the Paranormal nurses thread Idea for those of you who are a part of it,just changed the name a little bit. Enjoy the introduction and jump right in,you know who you are))
Iraq was hot as hell. If it wasn't hell itself or what hell was modeled after when someone decided to sit down and write the bible,it was definitely in the same area code. Al Anbar was the 9th level of hell,the worst hot bed of insurgent activity and the last bastion of their attempt to over throw the now forming Iraqi government and the western infidels who were invading their country. It was funny how they considered us the infidels when they were the ones wiping their asses with their hands and couldn't find electricity to power a house. It seemed like all there was in Iraq was the two big G's: Goats and Guns. Iraq was full of a hundred million randomly stashed Ak-47's that slipped into the country after being bought by Russia. It was also full of foreign fighters that flocked from every section of the world to come fight America's military on their soil,they called it a Jihad.
The Marines of the First Marine Division had taken over control of the Al Anbar province for the 82nd Airbourne Division right as things got bad in Fallujah. It had been 2 years since Operation Phantom Fury and still things were bad as hell out here in this desert. So, members of Second Battalion,Fifth Marines, the most decorated infantry battalion in the entire marine corps, were now out in the desert looking for a fight,each time they met the enemy with the tenacious,intrepid fighting spirit of the US marines who laid it all on the lie for their brothers,their country and their Corps. So it was no surprise to have Marines of 2/5's echo company out on patrol in the middle of no where on their way to god knows where looking for a undetermined amount of enemies in undetermined locations. Like bait to a fish,they hoped their high presence would draw their enemies out,like a Moth to the Flame is what the commanding General had said when he released his new orders on how the insurgency should be fought.
Lance Corporal Short was just your average marine. He was kind of a geeky kid in high school that was just naturally athletic but never played any sports. He was patriotic since he was raised by a Marine for a father so when he could enlist at the age of 17,he had decided to wear the uniform and now 2 years after taking that first step into boot camp,he was in Al Anbar of all places. A trained Machine Gunner and a pretty decent,hard working guy,he wasn't all to much like the other more brash and brazen Marines of his company,he was more polite,guarded and had a strange notion about honor that others couldn't really associate with in this world of thug life: drinking,drugs and easy women. Sitting in the passenger side of his humvee,he looked with tired eyes out at the same sight: endless rolling desert and this half built road that led them to go knows where. Sighing,he missed his home and really wanted to get back to see his father and his brother, but he also wanted to rush back and choke that cheating bitch of an ex. He still carried her letter in his breast pocket, reading the damning words every day,feeling worse about himself every passing minute.
No one saw it coming but everyone knew it was coming,it was the whole point of being out there in the first place. The lead truck was about to make a left turn on the road when it was suddenly reduced to nothing,the vechile was nothing more than a twisted,burning hulk of metal and flame as a set of 155 arty shells detonated in the ground,an IED ambush set for the marines. The whole patrol became one mess of screeching wheels, machine guns roaring to life on top of every humvee. "CONTACT LEFT!!!!" the scream was cried out suddenly small arms from the enemy began to come in,the rat tat tat of their guns spewing rounds down on the marines,the lethal bullets slamming against the armor of their humvees and bullet proof glass. Their surprise is not total though as the quick thinking marines all began to jump out of their humvees and get online, machine guns sending heavy fire power down range as the men with rifles on the ground sent accurate shots toward the enemy,preparing to rush the enemy: Marines brought the fight to the enemy, even if they were crawling on their hands and knees to get it,thats why they got the term Devil Dogs from the Germans because they were like the hounds of hell.
Lance Corporal Short kicked open the heavy door of the humvee,the armor plating and the thick bullet proof glass in the tiny window made it hard to move so he had to strain against it to kick it open as suddenly a RPG screeched out of a launcher up the hill,the rocket spinning and swirling through the air,screaming like a banshee until it the humvee in front of him,sending it up in flames as the rocket pierced the armor and then blew it to bits,the gunner on top frying instantly, one second he was a living person named PFC. Smither and then he was gone,nothing more than dust inside a metal,wreck hull of what used to be a humvee. The force throwing him onto his ass as he had finally planted his combat covered boots in the sand,he shook of the ringing in his ears as he looked up dazed about what was going on. The entire place was more silent than a grave,like someone put a war movie on pause and was watching it like that.
Rolling to his left,he tried to find his footing in the miserable and hot sand as he dashed forward, rounds winging past him and screeching as they hit metal and ricocheted off. His heart was beating rapidly,every time he was in a fire fight it was beating so hard it hurt his chest,his breathing rapid as he tried to slow it. Some people said motor skills were lost and it was somewhat true but when in a real fire fight,you just have to look forward. Running and diving into the sand as a round landed right next to him,he looked to his left and saw his Sergeant, Sergeant Corey laying right next to him in the sand and then looked right and saw LCPL.Johnson bleeding out from a wound to gut to his right. His weapon pointed toward the enemy,he had not taking a shot as he tried to steady himself,he was shaking and his breathing was rapid as he looked through the acog on top of the weapon,the crosshair like a little stem as he sought out a target.
It was so hard to see with the heavy 50.Cal bullets tearing up the sand in the distance,sending it spraying everywhere,he watched for movement,just the slightest hint and then saw it poking its head up. Taking a deep breath,he let it out and squeezed the trigger....BAM, BAM BAM his weapon went off as he fired, the dark figure stopped moving and then became nothing as new sand sprayed up in the distance. Looking to his left, his sergeant was yelling at him but he couldn't understand what he was saying over the sound of mortars starting to drop in,the bombs arching in from the distances and slamming against the enemy position, exploding in the sand and kicking up so much thunderous noise and sound you couldn't hear your own thoughts. Pointing forward and screaming at him, it was obvious his Sergeant was screaming at him, telling him to press forward.
FORWARD that was the word, Marines were always moving forward as pushed himself off the deck,holding his weapon aloft with one arm until he could grab it with the other end,he shot in a frenzy of movement just toward the enemy for no real reason other than it made him feel better as he dashed head long toward the bombs,the bullets coming towards him and the unseen enemy out there just waiting to place his sights on his head and plant one right between the eyes. War crying or just plain screaming because he had nothing else to do,his loudest was muffled out by the sounds of combat around him as he finally dropped down and tried to sight in through his sights to see an enemy. No one,there was nothing. Insurgents liked to grab their dead and run when the whole military might of the Marines was brought down on their heads and the Marines would just chase them down until they were dead or they could get away.
Pushing back up two seconds later, Lance Corporal dashed forward once more,his weapon up and looking around, trying to find that one enemy,to see him in the eyes before one of them pulled the trigger first. There was none more though as he stopped, the marines behind him starting to assemble and sweep through,the marines at his front coming back to check the dead bodies. Beneath his feet, there was a dead body,he didn't even realize it since sand had half buried it but by the white garb it was definitely an insurgent. Waving over to one of his fellow marines,he pointed to the dead body and kept his weapon trained on it as his fellow marine slung his weapon on Lcpl.Shorts shoulder and then began a detailed search of his body. Patting him down,looking for any documents,weapons or anything else to catagorize and send back to the Intel guys at Headquarters,he pushed the body over to check his front, not following the proper procedure for it and just pushing him over. Smirking the man was still alive or looked kind of like it as a Grenade was still squeezed tightly in his hand,as he loosened it,his hand moved by the movement of his body,the pin pulled on the Grenade,his buddy tried to shout something and throw the body on top the grenade but the stunned Lcpl Short could just see the grenade as his weapon was held a loft,the shock of the situation so overwhelming,he was stuck solid on his feet as suddenly the world was dark.
His eyes shot open. The world had been darkness for who knows how long,he surely didn't as he immediately tried to sit up but the pain in his chest was overwhelming and he just laid back down. He had bandages across his entire chest, on his fore arms and down his right leg. It was to much to all process right now as he tried to think back: there was a fire fight, a grenade and then this. Wait,where the hell was he. Looking around with weak eyes, the little bit of light in the room a little to bright to his eyes that had just opened after what felt like an enternity. He was in a room,it was a hospital room and as his mind stopped running at a mile a minute,he realized he was cold as hell,the air condition actually worked in this place and that was something he hadn't had for 6 months while in the deserts of Iraq,sleeping in fighting holes in a sand dune.
Looking around,it looked like he was in a hospital,by the machines he was hooked up to and the comfortable bed he was propped up in. That was strange,there was no nice hospitals like this one in Iraq, especially in Al Anbar,if you got injured you would be lucky if you got patched up inside a big tent. He was worried he might be dreaming or maybe dead,who knew but he figured maybe a nurse would know. Reaching out for his call button at the side of his bed,he pressed the button a couple of times,hoping a nurse would show up soon and maybe fill in the gray areas a little bit.
----Brief Description-----
Name: Derek Short
Rank: Lance Corporal
Height: 6'1
Weight: 190 lbs
Hair Color: Jet Black
Eye Color: Amber Brown
http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz358/thescarletblade/moto.jpg
Iraq was hot as hell. If it wasn't hell itself or what hell was modeled after when someone decided to sit down and write the bible,it was definitely in the same area code. Al Anbar was the 9th level of hell,the worst hot bed of insurgent activity and the last bastion of their attempt to over throw the now forming Iraqi government and the western infidels who were invading their country. It was funny how they considered us the infidels when they were the ones wiping their asses with their hands and couldn't find electricity to power a house. It seemed like all there was in Iraq was the two big G's: Goats and Guns. Iraq was full of a hundred million randomly stashed Ak-47's that slipped into the country after being bought by Russia. It was also full of foreign fighters that flocked from every section of the world to come fight America's military on their soil,they called it a Jihad.
The Marines of the First Marine Division had taken over control of the Al Anbar province for the 82nd Airbourne Division right as things got bad in Fallujah. It had been 2 years since Operation Phantom Fury and still things were bad as hell out here in this desert. So, members of Second Battalion,Fifth Marines, the most decorated infantry battalion in the entire marine corps, were now out in the desert looking for a fight,each time they met the enemy with the tenacious,intrepid fighting spirit of the US marines who laid it all on the lie for their brothers,their country and their Corps. So it was no surprise to have Marines of 2/5's echo company out on patrol in the middle of no where on their way to god knows where looking for a undetermined amount of enemies in undetermined locations. Like bait to a fish,they hoped their high presence would draw their enemies out,like a Moth to the Flame is what the commanding General had said when he released his new orders on how the insurgency should be fought.
Lance Corporal Short was just your average marine. He was kind of a geeky kid in high school that was just naturally athletic but never played any sports. He was patriotic since he was raised by a Marine for a father so when he could enlist at the age of 17,he had decided to wear the uniform and now 2 years after taking that first step into boot camp,he was in Al Anbar of all places. A trained Machine Gunner and a pretty decent,hard working guy,he wasn't all to much like the other more brash and brazen Marines of his company,he was more polite,guarded and had a strange notion about honor that others couldn't really associate with in this world of thug life: drinking,drugs and easy women. Sitting in the passenger side of his humvee,he looked with tired eyes out at the same sight: endless rolling desert and this half built road that led them to go knows where. Sighing,he missed his home and really wanted to get back to see his father and his brother, but he also wanted to rush back and choke that cheating bitch of an ex. He still carried her letter in his breast pocket, reading the damning words every day,feeling worse about himself every passing minute.
No one saw it coming but everyone knew it was coming,it was the whole point of being out there in the first place. The lead truck was about to make a left turn on the road when it was suddenly reduced to nothing,the vechile was nothing more than a twisted,burning hulk of metal and flame as a set of 155 arty shells detonated in the ground,an IED ambush set for the marines. The whole patrol became one mess of screeching wheels, machine guns roaring to life on top of every humvee. "CONTACT LEFT!!!!" the scream was cried out suddenly small arms from the enemy began to come in,the rat tat tat of their guns spewing rounds down on the marines,the lethal bullets slamming against the armor of their humvees and bullet proof glass. Their surprise is not total though as the quick thinking marines all began to jump out of their humvees and get online, machine guns sending heavy fire power down range as the men with rifles on the ground sent accurate shots toward the enemy,preparing to rush the enemy: Marines brought the fight to the enemy, even if they were crawling on their hands and knees to get it,thats why they got the term Devil Dogs from the Germans because they were like the hounds of hell.
Lance Corporal Short kicked open the heavy door of the humvee,the armor plating and the thick bullet proof glass in the tiny window made it hard to move so he had to strain against it to kick it open as suddenly a RPG screeched out of a launcher up the hill,the rocket spinning and swirling through the air,screaming like a banshee until it the humvee in front of him,sending it up in flames as the rocket pierced the armor and then blew it to bits,the gunner on top frying instantly, one second he was a living person named PFC. Smither and then he was gone,nothing more than dust inside a metal,wreck hull of what used to be a humvee. The force throwing him onto his ass as he had finally planted his combat covered boots in the sand,he shook of the ringing in his ears as he looked up dazed about what was going on. The entire place was more silent than a grave,like someone put a war movie on pause and was watching it like that.
Rolling to his left,he tried to find his footing in the miserable and hot sand as he dashed forward, rounds winging past him and screeching as they hit metal and ricocheted off. His heart was beating rapidly,every time he was in a fire fight it was beating so hard it hurt his chest,his breathing rapid as he tried to slow it. Some people said motor skills were lost and it was somewhat true but when in a real fire fight,you just have to look forward. Running and diving into the sand as a round landed right next to him,he looked to his left and saw his Sergeant, Sergeant Corey laying right next to him in the sand and then looked right and saw LCPL.Johnson bleeding out from a wound to gut to his right. His weapon pointed toward the enemy,he had not taking a shot as he tried to steady himself,he was shaking and his breathing was rapid as he looked through the acog on top of the weapon,the crosshair like a little stem as he sought out a target.
It was so hard to see with the heavy 50.Cal bullets tearing up the sand in the distance,sending it spraying everywhere,he watched for movement,just the slightest hint and then saw it poking its head up. Taking a deep breath,he let it out and squeezed the trigger....BAM, BAM BAM his weapon went off as he fired, the dark figure stopped moving and then became nothing as new sand sprayed up in the distance. Looking to his left, his sergeant was yelling at him but he couldn't understand what he was saying over the sound of mortars starting to drop in,the bombs arching in from the distances and slamming against the enemy position, exploding in the sand and kicking up so much thunderous noise and sound you couldn't hear your own thoughts. Pointing forward and screaming at him, it was obvious his Sergeant was screaming at him, telling him to press forward.
FORWARD that was the word, Marines were always moving forward as pushed himself off the deck,holding his weapon aloft with one arm until he could grab it with the other end,he shot in a frenzy of movement just toward the enemy for no real reason other than it made him feel better as he dashed head long toward the bombs,the bullets coming towards him and the unseen enemy out there just waiting to place his sights on his head and plant one right between the eyes. War crying or just plain screaming because he had nothing else to do,his loudest was muffled out by the sounds of combat around him as he finally dropped down and tried to sight in through his sights to see an enemy. No one,there was nothing. Insurgents liked to grab their dead and run when the whole military might of the Marines was brought down on their heads and the Marines would just chase them down until they were dead or they could get away.
Pushing back up two seconds later, Lance Corporal dashed forward once more,his weapon up and looking around, trying to find that one enemy,to see him in the eyes before one of them pulled the trigger first. There was none more though as he stopped, the marines behind him starting to assemble and sweep through,the marines at his front coming back to check the dead bodies. Beneath his feet, there was a dead body,he didn't even realize it since sand had half buried it but by the white garb it was definitely an insurgent. Waving over to one of his fellow marines,he pointed to the dead body and kept his weapon trained on it as his fellow marine slung his weapon on Lcpl.Shorts shoulder and then began a detailed search of his body. Patting him down,looking for any documents,weapons or anything else to catagorize and send back to the Intel guys at Headquarters,he pushed the body over to check his front, not following the proper procedure for it and just pushing him over. Smirking the man was still alive or looked kind of like it as a Grenade was still squeezed tightly in his hand,as he loosened it,his hand moved by the movement of his body,the pin pulled on the Grenade,his buddy tried to shout something and throw the body on top the grenade but the stunned Lcpl Short could just see the grenade as his weapon was held a loft,the shock of the situation so overwhelming,he was stuck solid on his feet as suddenly the world was dark.
His eyes shot open. The world had been darkness for who knows how long,he surely didn't as he immediately tried to sit up but the pain in his chest was overwhelming and he just laid back down. He had bandages across his entire chest, on his fore arms and down his right leg. It was to much to all process right now as he tried to think back: there was a fire fight, a grenade and then this. Wait,where the hell was he. Looking around with weak eyes, the little bit of light in the room a little to bright to his eyes that had just opened after what felt like an enternity. He was in a room,it was a hospital room and as his mind stopped running at a mile a minute,he realized he was cold as hell,the air condition actually worked in this place and that was something he hadn't had for 6 months while in the deserts of Iraq,sleeping in fighting holes in a sand dune.
Looking around,it looked like he was in a hospital,by the machines he was hooked up to and the comfortable bed he was propped up in. That was strange,there was no nice hospitals like this one in Iraq, especially in Al Anbar,if you got injured you would be lucky if you got patched up inside a big tent. He was worried he might be dreaming or maybe dead,who knew but he figured maybe a nurse would know. Reaching out for his call button at the side of his bed,he pressed the button a couple of times,hoping a nurse would show up soon and maybe fill in the gray areas a little bit.
----Brief Description-----
Name: Derek Short
Rank: Lance Corporal
Height: 6'1
Weight: 190 lbs
Hair Color: Jet Black
Eye Color: Amber Brown
http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz358/thescarletblade/moto.jpg
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