Sergeant (The United Federation Marine Corps Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
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 to know immediately. The lieutenant, SSgt Hecs, Ryck, Sams, and Cpl St. Cyr, the new Second Squad leader, met several times in a mini-war council, going over their options to take the fight to the enemy. It was during one of these that a mass of explosions sounded off to their southwest, possibly 30 km away. The firing kept up for almost two minutes before dying off. Ryck knew there were no Marines there—Justice and the WIA were almost 40 km away to the northeast, and they were the only other Federation forces on the planet. He turned to ask the lieutenant what was going on, but the platoon commander was high-fiving SSgt Hecs. “And that, sir, is how it’s done,”
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