My name is Mark Gunny, I am a First Lieutenant for the US Marines. I am from Austin
Texas, I was born in 1990, which makes me 27. I am a white male with light brown hair
and dark brown eyes, I do not have a beard considering I can't grow one. I am six foot six
and I have a great build, I have the best shot with an M16 rifle in my entire battalion. I
am sent out on many transport mission with three of my best men. First is Echo is a
Sergeant, he is about six three, he is very quiet he will only talk if he has to but he is the
best in hand to hand combat. Next is Chief he is a Chief Warrant Officer, he is our radio
man and engineer if anything goes wrong with our car on a mission he can fix. Then there
is Scout he is about five nine and he can memorize any map, he knows all of Afghan like
the back of his hand. Our main missions are normally to help transport goods to smaller
US Marine outposts across Afghan. I only had to kill fifteen terrorist throughout all the
transport missions I have done.
On my fourth tour in Afghan, my squad and I were called into our Majors, we were
informed that there was a Marine outpost that has been under attack for about two days.
The Marines managed to fend off the terrorist but they were running low on ammunition,
food, water, and fuel. Our mission is to help protect the convoy full of all the supplies the
outpost needs. At first I thought nothing of it I have done tons of these transport missions
before. Not only that but my convoys have, never been attacked before. The only time I
had to shoot a terrorist is when I saw one or two trying to plant an IED to blow up my
convoy. When I looked on the map this area that we are traveling in is marked as critical.
I was also told that it was just marked critical it was always supposed to be a safe zone.
As we were about to go gear up our Major tells us that the outpost just radioed in they
have five wounded that need to be extracted.
Extracting five wounded men from a critical zone worried me. Its bad enough my squad
and six other men through a critical zone they add on five men who cant fight due to their
injuries. But those are my brothers injures over there and I will do anything I can to save
them.We had ten minutes to get prepared. I am wearing a standard marine desert combat
uniform for my weapons, I chose a M16 rifle a Colt forty-five pistol four hand grenades
and a grenade launcher that use grenades that explode on impact. I was the last out of the
locker room. My squad in I were in the back of the convoy in a humvee that had no turret
the other squad was in the front they got a humvee with turret then there are two men in
the cargo truck between us. We left the gates of the base at about six in the morning.
It took about three hours until we entered to critical zone. Within in those three hours five
terrorist tried to attack us, all five of them were killed by the turret on the first humvee.
The outpost was just over the hill, right as we got to the bottom of the hill the convoy
stopped, there was a women if front of the humvee just standing there. One of the men
yelled at her to get out of the way about ten seconds after he yells that there was an
explosion it rocked everyone in my car. We had no idea what happened, but when I
looked up the lady was gone and the front humvee was destroyed, that was no ordinary
lady she was a suicide bomber for the Taliban. Then my squad and I heard an RPG shot it
and suddenly it hits the ground right next to our car. The car flipped over, and out of
nowhere about fourteen men came out of behind the rocks. One of the terrorist was killed
by one of the guys in the truck. he shot again and again but then he's magazine ran out of
ammo both of the men were taken out of the truck and executed with a machete.
The terrorist were going to check our car next we needed to think of something fast or we
will all be dead. Chief told me to silently open one door of the car and when he gives me
the go ahead I am going to shoot my grenade launcher once then switch to my rifle using
the door as cover. While I am doing that Chief will open the other door and open fire ,
Scout and Echo will open the hatch at the back of the car and find cover from there. I
opened the door and so did Chief he gave me the thumbs up and we opened fire, I shoot
my grenade launcher dropping two terrorist. Chief threw one frag killing only one
terrorist, Scout gave Echo cover as he ran to get cover behind a rock, he made it safely
now it was Scouts turn. Echo gave Scout covering fire but as scout ran over to Echo he
was shot in the leg and fell to the ground. Echo yelled in rage as he saw he friend get shot
with five rounds left in his clip, he turned to face the terrorist and killed three of them in
five shots. There was only seven of them left but two were laying down manning MGs
and five with Ak's using the truck as cover. Echo saw that Chief and I were pinned down
by the MGs he used the rocks as cover to sneak up behind one the men manning the MG
he pulled out his knife and silently took him out. As he took one of them out the other
one was reloading I quickly turned and shot the Terrorist manning the MG and got
behind cover. AS this was all happening Scout crawled behind the flipped over humvee
Chief realized that and went back to assist him. Echo was still behind enemy lines, he
could see the five terrorist that were left he was out of ammo in his rifle he pulled out his
pistol and killed all five of them in five shots.
As chief was helping Scout a sniper shot came out of nowhere and Scout right between
the eyes. Chief was shocked he was still holding Scouts hand even though he was in the
line of sight of a sniper. I quickly yanked him away from Scout and got hime behind
cover. Suddenly I could here a chant the chant was begone you Americans as that chant
end loads of bullets rained our way we were pinned behind the humvee, as I looked
around the car I saw twenty terrorist charging our way. They were far but they were
coming fast, Echo threw a grenade killing two terrorist, I shot eight rounds dropping
seven terrorist. As Chief lifted up to open fire he was shot two times in the chest he fell to
the ground screaming in pain. I ran out of ammo in my mag as a terrorist charged me I
engaged hime in hand to hand combat, one charged Echo he was in out of rounds in
everything and fought the terrorist in hand to hand combat as well. My opponent was
strong and new how to fight he threw me to the ground got on top of me a tried to choke
me out, but as he was doing that Echo kicked him off me and beat him till he died. I
gasped for breath Echo helped me up, he told me to give him a clip because he needed
rounds I did as I was then he said go over the hill and get the marines at the outpost for
reinforcements. Echo said he will hold down the house. It was our only option or we will
be dead as got to the outpost I yelled I need reinforcements pronto four men came to my
assistance, I informed them on what happened as we were running to help my brothers.
But as we got over the hill the terrorist were gone and Echo and Chief were dead and had
there heads were chopped off. I dropped to my knees as tears rolled down my face.