Midday, Day 6
With the sun directly overhead, the squad was certainly feeling the heat. This was especially true for Frozen in Ice, the number of accusations piling up against him. With most of the squad accusing someone at this point, Icekommander also had managed to receive a handful of votes as well. While the debate raged on about who did what or didnt do what, something emerged to shake everybodys minds off the subject for just a moment.
Machine gun fire erupted from the squads flanks, pinning the men in their place until an effective counter-attack could be made. With the recent demise of their most recent Platoon Leader Niklas, it was chaotic at best as the men mounted a counter-attack. Grenades sailed into the squads ranks and exploded, knocking a handful off their feet as the shrapnel wiped them out. After ten minutes of fighting that seemed to last for a week, the insurgents backed down and retreated as the squad managed to hold them off. When the smoke cleared and thoughts began to prevail over adrenaline, it was not a pretty sight.
One grenade had sailed right next to a handful of soldiers and before it could explode, Stuck in Pi had managed to pick it up and lob it away. Unfortunately for him, he had no sooner ducked after throwing it the grenade exploded and he was showered with shrapnel. His saving grace had been his flak jacket, absorbing the fragments and only knocking him out for the time being.
Thomas.berubeg had not been so lucky. The same shrapnel that got Stuck in Pi also hit the cook, and for the second time in a twenty-four hour period lay wounded on the ground. Chandrasekhar had come over to check on his fallen comrade and got hit in the shoulder with a round from an insurgents rifle. Grasping the wound with his now bloody left hand, he quickly retreated out of the line of fire, which was now kicking up dirt all around thomas.berubeg. Miraculously, the stricken cook did not get hit with any of the extraneous bullets falling all around him.
The carnage went on. Nahkarma had been hit in the left arm twice by two bullets from yet another insurgent. J-man almost lost his legs when a grenade exploded precariously close and lucked out by only having shrapnel pierce his legs. When all was said and done, four of the squad lay injured on the ground after this ambush.
Grabbing the stretchers made after the first ambush, J-man and thomas.berubeg got a lift while the other two could walk away with only wounds to their upper extremities. As the squad regrouped, this ambush only stressed the need for a Platoon Leader. While it is hard to say whether casualties would have been lower or not, the squad realized they needed someone to look to when the situation became dire. Hopefully by the end of today they would have selected that man to lead the squad onward.
Accusations:
Frozen in Ice: 7
Icekommander: 2
J-man: 1
Platoon Leader:
Tasslehoff: 2
J-man: 2
Love: 1
M16:
Izipo: 1
Frozen in Ice: 1
Current Over/Under: 3
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