SFC English Writing Starter: I was Looking Forward to the Mo
Writing starter: I was looking forward to the momentI was looking forward to the moment, when I got my Commandos Green Beret Promotion in the US army. It was a beautiful day; I was just patrolling the base camp. I could smell the burning rubber, hear the birds "tweet" and the "whoosh" of the stream down below. It was then when I got a call on my crusty old radio which looked like a little wooden box with some knobs in it, waiting to fall apart. I was on mission with Beasley; He was the chief commander of the US army sniper Division. It was a mission to go to Colombia and wipe out the General of sate and my job was to protect him and watch his back giving any technical assistance. The next morning was our only proper meal, It was scrumptious meat, with egg omelets, mouth watering Scallops wrapped in Bacon grilled & served with teriyaki vegetables, topped with sun dried tomato and to top it all off, Raspberry Mousse covered with raspberries, cream & caramelized nuts. That was it, we too a break for an hour had a little nap, packed our thing, loaded our ammo. We were on our way, the chopper dropped us off at our rendezvous, the copper couldn't completely touch down because of the rocks so we had to jump of it from a
Mission accomplished he said, next minute the soldiers and guards were running into the forest and firing with their machine guns, they didn't know where we were so they were shooting everywhere like blind men. "open clearance" he said, means if we do get in a cross fire with them I have the right to kill any one of the enemies. Fortunately for us we managed to lose them, un fortunately for Beasley he got a bullet hit on his shoulder , we ran straight out for 400 meters until it was impossible for him, so we hid under a huge boulder for 3 hours. He was bleeding, Morphine he cried out. I gave him two shots, I put my hand in to the blood and flesh of his arm and pulled out the bullet, "aahh" he moaned, wrapped it up and him last of the water to drink. We had to get out of there or he could not survive any longer. bout one and half meters high, "Splash" I fell in small puddle, my new uniform wet already. The sky was black, We could feel the rain on its way, and before you know it "tap tap tap" on my helmet, then the sound got faster in less than twenty seconds, It was pissing. I sent out the new coordinates of our points and explained our situation, so the chopper could come and pick us up. After another 2 hours it came, making a hell lot of noise. Two marines jumped off and carried Beasley into the chopper, I climbed on it and up it went. We could see all the little people look up and fire at us, we were too far to be even seen properly. Finally we made it. Beasley told me exactly what to do, we finished last minute formalities before we start, like signing promissory notes that I will die for America and I will die for my fellow partners, I will never turn back out them etc.. the usual stuff. In the beginning he told me to sand back to back with him and walk backward as he walked forwards, I was holding a AK 47, he had a long range s
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Approximate Word count = 1251
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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