The Last Platoon by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bombardier Books
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

AT THE FIREBASE, Sergeant Ahmed’s intel section intercepted the childlike code and ignored it. Over their ICOMs, the Talibs regularly conversed with farmers, exchanged curses with Afghan soldiers, and talked in senseless riddles to mask an occasional genuine order.

THE FIRST GANG OF FOUR TALIBS, particularly bold, waded up an irrigation ditch to within three hundred meters of the firebase. The foliage from the overhanging trees screened them from the drone circling at five thousand feet. A hundred meters behind them, the second gang hid along the edge of a field while the laborers, who had been scraping opium teardrops onto their flat putty knives, skittered away. The third gang was hiding still farther back in a tree line.

Among the three groups, they had two RPGs, a half-dozen AKs, and one Russian PKM machine gun. Because the laborers walked where they pleased, the range to the base from these three firing positions had been paced off. This allowed the RPGs to be elevated at the correct angle to hit the base. Still, the Marine artillery crews were sheltered behind heavy earth berms, and the sentries on the perimeter were standing watch from inside deep bunkers. There were no obvious targets, and the shooters were aiming into the afternoon sun.

Habullah’s gang, nearest the base, braced the stocks of their AKs into the dirt and pushed the barrels into the air. As soon as the first rocket was fired, the riflemen squeezed off a few bursts that quickly emptied their twenty-round magazines. The PKM crew aimed at the artillery tubes. The heavy slugs fired at a slow cyclic rate that sounded like hammers beating on iron pipes. After a few seconds, the other two gangs joined in. The shooting lasted less than twenty seconds, followed by the usual hoots of “Allahu Akbar” as the shooters slipped away. The attack was over before the sirens on the base sounded a warning.

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