>be the OP
>inna Army doing grunt shit
>get in a TIC
>whole company gets pinned down in an open area on the side of a hill because officers don’t know how to plan for shit
>CO realizes how fucked we are and orders us to fall back to the only accessible cover
>a road with berms on either side
betterthannothing.exe
>we haul ass
>spend the next few minutes sending up LACE reports and figuring out whose still alive
>request arty support
>request denied
>request additional Infantry
>nope
>CO wants to just sit tight and hold what we’ve got
>setting up fields of fire with my joes I notice we still have guys wounded but alive on the side of the hill
>run it up the chain
>sorry anon they’re fucked we have no way to get to them without getting shot up
>the whole thing was bullshit
>my unit was a cluster fuck called the Rainbow Division
>this was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell so no it wasn’t like that
>well maybe some of the officers
>it was a national guard unit made up of extra personnel from 26 different states
>all the normal problems of a guard unit with none of the perks
>which is how we ended up pinned down on a road with 6 dudes dying on the side of an exposed hill
>no one knows what to do
>wounded dudes trying to crawl down to us
>the Huns are letting them
>most likely waiting for us to try and help
>officers unsurprisingly still trying to figure out what to do
>Jerry decides to start gacking off rounds at our wounded dudes
>everything stops
>no one is moving
>I can hear Fritz reloading
>fuck it
>drop kit
>hop up
>start hauling ass up towards the first dude I see
>the Huns are so startled they don’t do shit
>power slide in next to the first wounded dude I see
>grab him
>run back down the hill
>way faster with gravity helping me out
>the Boche bastards finally realize whats going on and focus all their fire on me
>my company figures it out at about the same time and starts shooting back
>running/falling down the hill in the open with bullets zipping past me on both sides
>I don’t die
>not even injured
>out of this world adrenal high
>figure if it worked once why stop
>end up rescuing all six dudes
>find out after the war that they put me in for some big award
>had to get my Dress Uniform out of storage
>dry cleaned
>and tailored to fit my new post army body
>pics related, still salty about those officers
