Tony2015
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"What Happens In A Warzone..."
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The raid was swift and surgical ... and over before most of those in the village knew it had begun. The first shots came from my snipers in the surrounding hills. The last came from my own .45 caliber handgun, as I executed the leader of the militia that had taken over the village just eight days earlier. Elapsed time from first shot to last: 145 seconds. Casualties: 18 dead enemy militia, two villagers (acceptable collateral damage), and one twisted ankle amongst my troops. He'd live.
My men used panic to control the villagers, firing our now-unsilenced weapons into the air and pushing people about as necessary. In about as much time as it had taken to seize the community of 100, we had those 100 men, women, and children gathered up in the village square, huddled close together in fear, just the way I wanted them.
My twelve men split into two teams. One remained with the villagers, surrounding them and ensuring that they continued to respect the heavy weapons trained on them. The other half began pillaging through the almost two dozen huts, looking for guns, electronics, jewels, and anything that might be easily converted into hard currency during out next visit to the Provincial Capital.
I went to the village's communal building -- little more than a larger than normal hut -- and searched it for evidence of the villager's allegiance to any one particular militia group. There were at least six paramilitary organizations vying for control over this particular province, in addition to the current government forces, backed by the United States of America which had helped overthrow the democratically elected Marxist leader in a bloody military coup.
I personally didn't much care about who ran the country, the province, or even this little squat village in the depths of the thick jungle. I had no political allegiances nor political goals. I had no interest in being part of the government once the war ended. Of course, the war here would never end. There had been conflict here in one form or another since the time of my grandfather's youth. And there would be conflict here in one form or another in the time of my grandchildren's youth ... presuming I ever had a child to give me grandchildren.
No, this fight was about survival, plain and simple. Here, a man without a formal education -- like myself -- could only be one of two things: a man with a gun, or a man controlled by a man with a gun. I chose the former. And thankfully, I was good at it. I was involuntarily drafted at age 13 into the People's Liberation Party, what was the primary anti-government rebel force of the day. I was taught to be a soldier, though I mostly just performed labor day in, day out for a cot, two meals a day, and the equivalent of $5 US at the end of most weeks.
While squatting in the woods one day taking a shit, my camp was ambushed by the Army. I killed nine people before the day was over, using a rifle, a pistol, and even my bare hands. The next day I was the new commander of Delta Squad. I was 16.
We spend most of our time ambushing Government convoys on rural, mountainous roads. We stole their valuables, from vehicles and weapons to boots and underwear. It was more banditry than warfare, but as we tried to limit our attacks to Government forces, we called it the latter.
The isolation from our main forces and the ever changing landscape of local and international politics slowly led to the severing of my ties with the PLP. Six years ago, at age 25, I led an attack against what would turn out to be a CIA-backed cocaine smuggling operation. Three days later, while Googling my name on one of the laptops we'd stolen-- backed by internet from a satellite-phone -- I discovered a New York Times article in which I had been referred to as the Commander of the murderous, anti-democratic, anti-government, Guzma Norte Paramilitary. Needless to say, official recognition by the Americans led to some celebrating and drinking that night. Who wouldn't be thrilled to learn that the US government had your picture on a wall in some non-descript building somewhere with a red Bullseye painted over your face? I didn't much care for the name that had been chosen out of thin air to represent us, but it could have been worse.
By the time we'd found and taken all we wanted from this latest target's huts, the sun was rising up from beyond the tall, jungle covered mountains. I called out in the local dialect, "Who is the village Elder?" When no one volunteered an answer, I grabbed a young female by her hair and lifted her to her feet as I pointed my gun at her face. "Who is the Village Elder?
The person who rose cautiously and responded was ... well, let's use the word unexpected. She only said, "He's dead. He was killed." She looked to the corpses now piled like cord wood at the village's edge and finished, "By them."
I gestured toward my Lieutenant, who waded through the villagers to collect the young woman and bring her to me. She was very attractive, sexy even. And she wasn't from around these parts either. "Who are you? What is your place here?"
She answered. I considered her for a moment, then told her, "My name is Joseph Martinez. But you will call me Commander."
I turned away, saying, "Bring her."
Behind me, my Lieutenant followed, bringing the young woman with him with the level of encouragement she made necessary. We entered the Communal Building, when I began stripping off my outer layers of weapons, ammo, and fatigues.
"I do not speak the local dialect," I began in a very matter of fact tone as I continued stripping down. "But since you and I seem to speak the same language, you are going to be my ... what's that word, that French word ... liaison? Yes, liaison. You are going to be my liaison to this village during the few days that we are here. I will tell you what I want. You will get it for me. If you don't, I will kill a child in front of his or her parent. Then, you will get me what I wanted anyway, so ... why shed blood, no?"
I was down to my boxers by the time I finished talking. I turned and faced her, showing my well sculpted, tight body and its numerous battle scars. I asked simply, "Understand?"