• As Dante’ moved through the thick trees closer to the city with his squad, Delta squad, their squad leader Harv orders them to stop. “Every one in position?” Harv asks over the radio.
    “Alpha in position”
    “Bravo in position”
    After all the squads reported that they were in position, Harv told them that once he gives the command every one will slowly move in. By the time you could see all the stars in the sky Harv had given the command to move out.
    “We’re going to be moving into tall grass; from there we will be crawling”. As they approached the tall grass they got down to a prone position, on their stomach, careful not to get dirt in the barrel of their guns.
    “Okay when the spot light starts to head your way I want every one to stop moving until it passes” Harv ordered in a quiet yet firm tone through the radio.
    “Now get moving”.
    Once they got a little over half way through the tall grass Harv ordered them to stop moving. Then he called HQ to request an air strike, an attack from a plane to take out a target on the ground. Harv pulled out a laser pointer to mark one of the watch towers as a target for the plane to take out. Moments later an F-18 flew over and launched a missile at the tower causing it to crumble to the ground. Then the sirens went off starting at a low pitch slowly rising to a loud scream then dwindling into silence.
    “Move out” Harv screams while courageously jumping up and running toward the two story building. Following Harvs orders Dante’ got to the end of the tall grass field, when all of a sudden he heard a bullet make a thud sound and at the same time he felt small amounts of dirt fly up from the ground, it had landed just about one foot in front of him. Then a constant pounding of bullets began to hit the ground flinging dirt up everywhere. Without thinking Dante’ runs in a zigzag, to make him self a harder target to hit then runs through the door of the building that he had seen Harv enter.
    “Where are they firing at us from?” Dante’ asks wondering if any one saw the flash from the barrel of the gun that was being shot at them.
    “I don’t know” Said another squad member.
    “Alpha squad what is your position?” Harv asks hoping that they haven’t gotten them selves pinned down as well.
    “We’ve managed to find our way into a park” Steve, alpha’s squad leader, said.
    “Well were pinned down and we need you to take out the gunner”
    “I’m on my way”.
    “What’s that sound?” one soldier asked.
    “In coming!” Dante’ screamed when he saw the tank through the window had stopped moving. It positioned its turret towards the building and fired. As the tank shot at the building, the bullet hit the door, exploding on contact, pushing shrapnel out, ripping a hole through the wall then the concussion of the explosion pushed the soldiers off their feet. As Dante’ looked around, still on his back, at the mess the bullet from the tank had made he noticed that one Iraqi soldier was pointing at them giving orders. The others, about five or six, looked over at them and instantly jogged towards them.


    “Ok, Delta has been pinned down so it’s our job to take out the gunner so that we can continue with our mission” Steve said to the other members of Alpha squad. Just then they saw a truck drive by with a machine gunner in the back and it started firing at them. Instantly, Alpha squad returned fire. Moments later the vehicle exploded. As Alpha squad got to the fiery vehicle, Bravo squad walked out from a building.
    “Good thing you guys were here. We would have been mowed down”. Steve said thankful that they were there.
    “What are you doing here anyway?” Sam, the leader of Bravo squad, asked.
    “We got lost” Steve said embarrassed to admit it. “You think you can help us?”
    “With what?”
    “Delta squad is pinned down and they can’t move with out getting mowed down”.
    “Sure we’ll help”.
    “Let’s go”.
    Just as Alpha squad and Bravo squad got to the end of the road, Sam turned the corner. He noticed that a tank was at the end of the road; not turned toward them but toward a building with a hole blown through it, then a bullet hit the sidewalk in front of him and he leaped back around the corner.
    “I think I found Delta squad” Sam said, still trying to calm down.
    “Jim, I need you to make the first shot”. Sam said quietly. As Jim walked past Sam he pulled his sniper rifle off his right shoulder and got into a kneeling position. He took another step closer to the corner, so that his right leg, his head, and gun were the only things showing. He put the cross hairs over a soldiers head and slowly squeezed the trigger. BANG. Blood instantly splattered out of the soldiers head and the enemy soldier dropped dead on the ground. Sam instantly turned the corner, standing next to Jim, shooting at the other enemy soldiers. After a while he moved back around the corner to reload.
    “Ok, Sam we are going to move through this building find the machine gunner on the second floor and take him out”.
    “Ok, we will follow you”.
    Steve walked over to the door next to Sam and gave it a good kick breaking the door hinge and making the door swing open. Sam turned and entered the building, following Alpha squad and the rest of his squad. After everyone entered the building Steve pointed to two soldiers and told them to guard the door, then pointed to three more and told them that they were to follow him. They headed for the stairs. Once Steve got to the stairs he quietly creped up the steps, one at a time. After Steve reached the top he noticed a door was cracked open, so he slowly advanced towards the door. He got there and listened for voices. Steve heard them and grabbed a grenade. He pulled the pin quickly and opened the door, tossed the grenade and closed the door. Steve ran back through the hall towards the stairs. The grenade exploded seconds later. Steve walked into the room to make sure the grenade had gotten everyone. As he opened the door and stepped into the bloody room; He looked at the machine gun. Lying next to it was the bloody and torn up corpse of the gunner. The soldier looked about no older than 20 years old. Looking to the right he saw another bloody and mangled body but this one was missing an arm. Steve got a weird feeling in his stomach. He became dizzy and almost lost his balance. He threw up and stumbled out of the room. Steve picked up the radio called in HQ and requested for reinforcements.
    Walks down the stairs then says "Let's save Delta squad and take this f***ing city, so we can be done with this mission."