Frontal Assault by Keith Douglass

Author:Keith Douglass [Douglass, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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17

Airport

Bahrain

“Commander? This is Dr. Alspaugh on board the Boxer. You’re inquiring about Petty Officer Adams?”

“Yes sir. How is he?”

“He’s alive. It was questionable when we received him here. We stabilized him and treated his other wounds. He’s out of danger now. The arm is the problem. We have the body part on ice and will try to reattach it when he’s ready.”

“Do your best, Doctor. He’s a good man. What about Holt?”

“Superficial wounds, but we’re worried about his eyes. It may be a temporary blindness. The intensity of the light from the blast could have damaged the retina. We’re watching him closely.”

“Thanks, Doc. Do your best.”

Murdock and the radioman ran to catch up with Captain Browser and his men. They were on an end run around the airport to come in through the main entrance. They moved down a side road around this back part of the airport and saw no military units.

Their lead men came around a corner, and they could see the main entrance. Two military trucks sat there across the lanes of traffic. A dozen soldiers stood around with their weapons slung, muzzles pointing down.

The Marines went to the ground along the side of the road and began firing at the trucks. The Bahrainian troops scattered, then the trucks started, backed around, and raced down the highway away, from the airport.

The Marines moved up cautiously. Murdock had his SEALs in the second unit. When they arrived at the entrance to the airport off the highway, there was only some broken glass on the pavement to show the encounter. The Marines rushed through the driveway and turned left down a circular road toward a five-story building away from the passenger terminal.

“Administration building?” Jaybird asked Murdock.

“Must be. Where are all the troops? Is this colonel a military man or a ringer?”

Just after Murdock said it, six RPGs slammed into the Marine force. A dozen men went down, injured or dying. None of the rounds hit near the SEALs. Captain Browser dispersed his men and moved them forward slowly, clearing cars and vehicles parked along the road. He made sure the medics took care of the wounded. Then he called for choppers from the Boxer to do a medical evacuation.

“Yes, Lieutenant. I said we have wounded. Nine men who need immediate medical care and two KIA. We want them out of here at once. Get those choppers moving.”

Captain Browser left six Marines behind to protect the wounded and the medics, then they moved toward the big building.

The Marines were running, charging across the parking lot at the front door of the five-story building. Murdock and his SEALs went with them.

“A fucking frontal assault,” Murdock shouted at Jaybird. “I told the captain not to do this.”

They were thirty yards from the front door when Murdock realized they weren’t taking any enemy fire. Browser split his force, sent half of them to the back and the rest of them charged directly into the building.

Murdock and the SEALs went in the

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