Captain (The United Federation Marine Corps Book 4) by Jonathan P. Brazee

Author:Jonathan P. Brazee [Brazee, Jonathan P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Semper Fi Press
Published: 2015-04-24T07:00:00+00:00

[18] and the “fog of war,” and that no battle plan ever lasted past the first shot fired. However, in this case, Ryck had never been so sure of the final outcome. What concerned him was the chance of Marines getting killed while achieving that outcome. He had over 30 Marines wandering back and forth in the camp in their skins and bones, not PICS, and there would be incoming in half an hour. Even in a PICS, a direct hit by the dissident’s guns could be fatal.

Ryck became more nervous as the display counted down the seconds. Sitting and waiting was worse when he didn’t have a mission.

He knew that wasn’t accurate. He had a mission, a vital one. He had to command. But he didn’t know what that would entail. As a junior Marine, all he had to do was close with and destroy the enemy. That was easy to conceptualize, and he knew how to do that. As a commander, he kept running through a multitude of possible scenarios, and what he would do for each one.

It was a relief when the first report was passed that First Platoon had gathered up the river assault force like fish in a net. No one, Marine or dissident, had been hurt, and only two dissidents had managed to escape the trap. Trucks were moving in from their staging area to pick up the prisoners while the Inchon blanketed out the river site to block any transmissions back to the larger ground assault force.

Just a few minutes after Ryck received that word, the first salvo from the dissidents’ Donaldsons opened up.

“All hands, armor up!” Ryck immediately passed as he asked his AI to plot the trajectories of the incoming rounds.

To his surprise, the first three rounds were projected to impact in the agricultural land just on the other side of the river. Ryck turned to look as the rounds impacted, sending up nice gouts of smoke and dust. He realized that to observing forces, the rounds would probably look like they were impacting inside the camp, and it might take them a few salvos to realize their mistake.

Both the jimmylegs and the FCDC had assured the Marines that the guns wouldn’t be an issue, and Ryck had to give them credit. However they had messed with the firing data, though, as soon as the dissidents realized the error, they could manually make the corrections. What this did, however, was allow Second Platoon to get into their PICS without the threat of incoming rounds.

There was the outgoing report of the M54 firing kinetic rounds. Although the M54 was still attached to Charlie, the Three, as the task force commander, had pulled Ryck out of the loop and ordered it to fire. The first round landed just at the crest of Route 2’s raised roadbed as the first of the frontal assault force crested it. Bodies were blown back down the other side and out of sight.

As more dissidents showed themselves, the

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