I spent the day on MARSOC's Bulldog 1, and had a great time. Squad movement was good, medics did well, one downside would be that a lot of our squad comms didn't work, but overall communication worked well. Overall great job to all on Bulldog 1. We did get beat up a few times, but on the whole I think the group did well. Objectives were slightly confused a couple of times but that's gonna happen anyway. And that leads to my personal favorite part of the day.
It was the last mission of the day, My battery had run out during the prisoner interrogation/holding mission so I had just my sidearm. Therefore I volunteered to guard another prisoner which we took at the start of the last mission. Bringing up the rear of the MARSOC forces with the POW and a couple other guys (I think it was Bulldog 2 medic and another Bulldog 2 member), when a friendly civilian, I think he was some kind of musician(Troub), told us that if we skirted round the edge, we could reach the helicopter (which we thought was the objective at the time) without the AJA detecting us. We went for it, accompanied by the POW, who behaved very well the whole time(props whoever you were).
Well, we crept through the brush, over to our right we saw an AJA ambush attacking our forces about 30-40 yds away. We stopped for a minute and then just kinda kept walking (we looked kinda like AJA since I had taken off my jacket due to heat and we had the prisoner walking up front most of the time). They didn't notice us, or if they did they ignored us. We got a little lost but kept going, and then finally saw the helicopter through heavy brush. There were some enemy soldiers there, so I (having just a pistol and looking like I kinda belonged) walked out to check it out, there were about ten hostile "dead" soldiers there, since they were all dead the other 2 guys came out and we flipped the flag on the helicopter to green. SUCCESS!!!! A few more "dead" strolled in till we had about 15 "prisoners"(they also "behaved" well). Then came the sad part, a referee came and told us that the helicopter was not an objective (capturing Marshy was), and that in fact the helicopter was an "uncapturable" point.
He let us return to our unit in time to help escort the AJA leader back to exfil. So our exploit was for nothing, but I still count it a successful mission, and a lot of fun. Great job to the other two guys in our provisionary squad, it was great to work with you guys. That was the my favorite mission of the day, even if it was by accident!!!!
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