Forget Nothing by Jason Anspach & Michelle C Meyers

Author:Jason Anspach & Michelle C Meyers [Anspach, Jason & Meyers, Michelle C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge Press
Published: 2020-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

08

It’s been quiet around Camp Puller in the few weeks following the arrival of the Iron Wolves. The legionnaires have been patrolling the Ulori grasslands surrounding the camp and most of the region at least twice a day. Occasionally we’ll do joint force operations if we have reliable intel of a sighting of MCR—we’re openly calling them that now. Those are few and far between, though.

Which means most of what my Marines are doing now is pulling guard duty and fighting off the mind-numbing boredom that comes with deployment when there is no action. Gunny has been busy breaking up fights between testosterone-fueled young men. We decided to just let them form their own amateur MMA league, since they weren’t going to stop fighting and we had enough to do without all the extra incident reports.

A few of my Marines have had to cycle out due to pregnancy, which also picks up in times like these. Even when there’s nothing to do, there’s always something to do.

The positive side of that is that the replacements that came in included the captain I’ve been waiting on since first arriving on-planet. Cole Chapman. I’m walking him through the camp just as the sun begins its rise from behind the horizon.

“I think it would be good for morale, Major,” Chapman says as we pass the latrines, bots with eyes glowing in what remains of the night doing their best to keep clean what Marines and legionnaires love to desecrate.

“It would be good, Captain Chapman. But with the Legion already locked into two patrols a day, there really isn’t an opportunity for us to take the sleds out for a patrol of our own. The drivers need at least some rest.”

“We have the QRF sleds just sitting around.”

That’s true enough. Four combat sleds are held back in case the Legion ever finds itself in real trouble. That hasn’t happened, though. What contact with the human rebels that’s taken place has been over almost before it started, with the Iron Wolves facing no real danger from the considerably less skilled force.

When we use those sleds, it’s typically to speed out with some bots and clean things up. Body recovery and intel searches. The Legion likes the killing just fine, but they tend to leave the after-work for Marines. That hasn’t made them any more popular on base.

But that’s not something any leej has ever cared about.

Still, if things keep up the way they’ve been going, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Legion pulls out. There hasn’t been an MCR sighting in a week. Not even a roadside bomb to dispose of. They seem to have pulled back entirely. Or maybe they were wiped out—though Dark Ops doesn’t think so. Whatever the case, the shooting has stopped, and even the alertness my Marines once had when things looked hot is dissipating.

We’re getting used to monotony. Accustomed to boredom. Not a good place to be.

“I think I can get Colonel Gerlach to go along with that,” I say, nodding approvingly.

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