This was the first training evolution in his new recruit billet, and he was bound and determined to keep it all the way through graduation. He didn’t need Hodges to get him fired before he’d even had a chance to show the DIs what he was capable of. They were outside the c...
The addition of the PICS team to a routine checkpoint had been recent. The battalion had gone in light. Instead of five PICS platoons, the Fuzos only had two: Golf’s Third Platoon and India’s Second. The intent from on high was that the battalion was there to keep the peace, and having a “mil...
the XO said. “Braço às armas feit, Liam. As arms to weapons,” Ryck responded. Ryck was actually slightly underwhelmed—and disappointed. This was his first patron birthday with the battalion, and he’d hoped it would knock everyone’s socks off. It ...
Michi asked while Doug grunted a few steps into the tunnel. “It’s a lot harder than it looks!” he complained. They had to cut open the lock, or their whole plan had to be scrapped. The lock was to an old access tunnel to the power station, and that...
He should have relaxed, he knew. The Federation would not have given them a different implant if it could set off any alarms on the primitive scanners used in the corporate world. Ryck stood around as more new indentureds gathered. Twelve of the new men were Marines from...
seemed to be over. “Everything come out OK, Toad?” Gunny Heang asked, the rest of the team dutifully laughing at the old joke. “Yeah, Rabbit, everything came out just fine,” Ryck answered. With a long drop ahead of them, and in very, very close con...
The hadron comms had been with the skipper, so the platoon had nothing with which to communicate with a ship out of planetary orbit. But the lieutenant assigned LCpl Vargas out of First Squad to monitor all the ground-to-orbit frequencies. When the Intrepid returned, the platoon commander wanted ...
“We may be able to get one rabbit a day, if we are lucky. But that assumes we put up more snares, and how far out do we want to go? GBC wasn’t going to spend more than they had to, so the number of constructs wouldn’t be that many, I would guess,” put in Lindadawn. “Yea,” I countered, “but squeal...
Immediately after Miss MacCailín’s little manifesto, protests had broken out, protests that spilled into violence as a crowd tried to attack Alpha Company in Dundee. At least 80 people had been killed as Preston led his company in defending itself. That stark reminder of the Marines’ capabiliti...