![]() ![]() ![]() Two small boats approached Boyd’s location with what looked like an enemy reconnaissance team’s worth of dismounts. Several overhead searches of the nearest extract site confirmed his fears. Boyd’s problem lay closer in, just inside the horizon to the platoon BLS. Fortunately, that was the surface battalion composite warfare commander’s problem to solve. Boyd was not only worried about the Peoples Armed Forces Maritime Militia ship but also what else might be lurking further offshore. A burst data transmission was discretely passed on battalion TAC relaying the updated enemy sit, complete with a recommended search zone offset around a hastily named area of interest. Identified Peoples Armed Forces Maritime Militia presence in the area of operation was an identified commander’s critical information requirement and required a report to higher thereby breaking his squad’s communication window. Moments later he identified myriad antennae bristling above the retrofitted fishing vessel, clearly illuminated on his handheld feed. He suspected the Peoples Armed Forces Maritime Militia, as he knew the enemy used non-combatants to skirt rules of engagement, screen, collect, and support targeting across the division’s battlespace. ![]() “What the hell is that thing?” Boyd wondered aloud. Forty-five minutes later, they caught a break in the weather and were running an offset reconnaissance approach on the problematic offshore lights. Boyd got him working on a new timeline and established a hasty priority information requirement for the Stalker extra lite on the integrated battalion collection plan. But that was weeks ago in the well deck and way before the actual shooting started.īoyd called over his assistant patrol leader, Sgt John Taylor, already busy putting together the final touches on route planning for the night. His company commander told him after the OPORD to trust his instincts and adjust the plan when needed, and he was going to do precisely that. Pro-words were passed via a data transmission mirroring the local electronic spectrum, and an alternate BLS was selected to better support tidal forecasts for the following night. Boyd decided right then and there to get ahead of the problem and roll L-hour for extract by 24 hours. Especially this late in the process of callbacks to support a beach landing site (BLS). Timelines for extract were normally tight, and the small boat guys were touchy about reprogramming their unmanned surface drones. Those guys normally stuck pretty close to the reef, and something about the back-and-forth course corrections bothered him-too precise, too deliberate. SSgt Boyd’s well-tuned baseline told him they were too far out to be the local fishing fleet. With a linkup grid already passed, he was a few hours away from beginning his squad’s displacement to a platoon rally point just off the beach. Frankly, he was looking forward to extract. He was on day fourteen of an eventful two weeks on the island. ![]() Slow-moving and just off the horizon, they flickered just beyond the frequent driving rain squalls that made everything worse. Somewhere in the USINDOPACOM Area of Responsibility January 2032 “Look at a man the way he is, and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.”ġ100 UTC/Zulu Time, 19:00 Local Time. Article Date Supporting Force Design 2030 with enhanced infantry Marines ![]()
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