The Story Begins by Modou Fye

Author:Modou Fye [Fye, Modou]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

14

An Introduction to the Unit

A couple of weeks following Jaden’s arrival in Germany, his unit returned from the Ukraine, touching ground on a Thursday morning. He had greatly anticipated meeting the returning company at the Ramstein US airbase but unfortunately had fallen ill and been issued doctor’s orders confining him to quarters for 96 hours. He was impatient to introduce himself to the unit and get to know his soldiers.

THE FOLLOWING MONDAY: Though the company’s initial formation was called at 6:20 daily – save weekends – after learning from Sergeant Phil that the company commander was usually in by 5:45, Jaden, wanting to get some face time with the company commander prior to then, decided to report to work earlier than was necessary.

A man peered out of the commander’s office window as Jaden exited his vehicle then walked away from it. Jaden believed him to be Captain Peterson, the company commander. He made his way up the stairs to the office and then knocked.

“Enter!” announced a boisterous voice.

Jaden marched up to the desk before him, ensuring that he was positioned center of the captain’s desk, stood at attention, eyes set dead ahead, saluted and then said, “Sir, Lieutenant Ramiel reporting as ordered!”

“At ease, Lieutenant!” the Captain said, rising from his chair and extending his hand. “Welcome to the unit, Lieutenant Ramiel. Have a seat,” he invited while gesturing to the chair just left of the lieutenant.

“Thank you, sir.”

The captain then seated himself. “I did wonder who it was that was parking in the lot. I didn’t recognize the vehicle and no one usually shows up for another twenty to 25 minutes.”

“Roger, sir. That’s the rental I’m driving until my car gets here.”

“It is fortunate that you got here when you did. The timing gave you the opportunity to get in-processed, assigned quarters, pick up your TA-50 and everything else on that to-do checklist the PSB handed you. It would have been a pain in the ass getting here then having to pop smoke to a different country when you weren’t situated yet.”

“I agree, sir. Things worked out well. It would have sucked had it played out like that… but hey, it is the army and having to move out with little or no notice is part of the job description, right?” the Lieutenant said.

“Lieutenant!” said the Captain with obvious satisfaction in his voice and expression, “I like your attitude. That’s definitely the way to see things in this great army of ours. I can tell right now that you’re going to fit in perfectly.”

“Thank you, sir.”

“Good soldiers are hard to find these days so you can imagine I wasn’t sure what I’d be getting but I definitely like your attitude, Lieutenant,” he said heartily. “My unit is a great unit Lieutenant, and you will come to know that. It’s by far the best as far as I’m concerned,” he declared passionately. “However, I must say that perfection doesn’t exist anywhere. If shit fell apart in heaven, you can rest assured that the rest of creation is all fucked up too.

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