The source of this declassified mission was based on individual account and experience of soldiers who actively participated in the said mission. Please do feel free to fill in the gaps in the story to those who were there that witness the intense action and terror of the mission. Thank you and more power.
OPERATION: NIGHT DAGGERBy: Oneal
Chapter 1: THE CALL TO ARMS
March 25, 2006, RBG Mercenaries received order for deployment to “Pakjuthan”, a nation rip apart by turmoil and constant clashes with its neighboring nation “Landican Republic”. The two-nation conflict originated in a land called “Bodez Brezuljak “, both nations are claiming rights for the said land. According to international report as I quote
“It is easy to see why Bodez Brezuljak is hotly contested. It has a road network infrastructure that controls the trade routes of the sector, as well as a series of pipelines that brings precious oil the seaports. To control the passages of trade and industry is to control the entire region. Clearly, the stakes of continued economic progress and security are high indeed.”Jim Clancy
CNN Correspondent
Our team was to be sent-in in this troubled nation to specifically assist the Pakjuthan government in their plan to invade Bodez Brezuljak and secure the objective against possible retaliation response from Landican Republic. The prime directives handed down by JOC was that our team will be inserted within Bodez Brezuljak to hold and defend “LP ALPHA” situated near the border of Landican Republic against possible retaliatory forces.
The team composed of LT (Mission Team Leader), Ex-O, Royg, Rot, Elias, Oneal, Mclaren, DT and Sin was specifically selected to execute the mission. JOC had also advised us that upon arriving in Pakjuthan Special Operation Command or SOCOM, we would be joined in with another team for this mission.
Upon knowing this classified info from LT, I know that this is big, this is Major, we never been deployed to any of our mission with another primary team element tagging along. LT was finishing up with the mission briefing with JOC, as we waited the guys in our team was somehow in a mix emotions, some of the veterans are excited and pumped up, eager to go in and kick ass but some like myself were a bit scared for this is quite new to us. As LT gave the order to deploy we move out to our designated transport and of we go to Pakjuthan.
Chapter 2: FIRE BASE GLORIA
A day passed since our deployment from JOC, we arrived at Pakjuthan SOCOM blue base also called as “Fire Base Gloria”. We were introduced to the Base Commander, which was Gen. Jun G. of the Northern Alliance. From there we couldn’t believe what we saw, massive army were being assembled to partake in this mission, we saw military equipment of different caliber ready to lock and load. We were directed to a specific place to established base camp, and from that moment LT was summon to attend a mission briefing with SOCOM. The guys and I put up our tents, sorting out our logistics and was having fun in the process. We were quite eager to know who were the other team element that will be with us, there’s a lot of speculations among the veterans but all we can do was to wait for further order when LT come back.
Some of the veterans in our team met with fellow veterans from other groups, it turns out to be a reunion of the oldies so to speak. Some exchanges information asking each other as to what extent was the mission being carried out, none of them can provide specific answer for it is a highly top secret info, only the base commander and the mission team leaders knows of this. We waited for an hour for any news or any instruction before suspense gets to our nerves.
At last LT came back, he rounded up the guys for a mission briefing, the main objective of the mission was to take out five (5) key strategic location within Bodez Brezuljak territory marked as LP ALPHA, BRAVO CHARLIE, DELTA and ECHO, capturing these strategic point will ensure the success of the mission. LP ALPHA was situated near the border of Landican Republic, the team will be the first element to be inserted deep within Bodez Brezuljak territory and proceed to “Landing Post ALPHA”, our orders was to hold and defend the post for any retaliatory forces from Landican Republic, we will then proceed to other LP if the Pakjuthan army was clear to move in.
I know for a fact that we were trained to do this sh@t, we been to countless mission were we been sent in to do our thing and come out alive and in one piece, but this time its different, we will be executing the mission at night, we know that were heading and facing serious sh@t but great relief was felt when LT announced that Team Mission Specific or TMS will be onboard to jointly execute the mission, the vets in our group assured us that they had previously worked with TMS from other mission and told us that they will be a great help. LT advised us that we will be moving out at exactly 20:00 hrs, the team quickly geared up, set up our commlink, loaded up our packs and checked our guns, we wasted no precious seconds on this. Now all we are waiting was the GO signal.
Chapter 3: LP BRAVO
The order to move came at last, the team together with TMS was inserted to Bodez Brezuljak, from there we proceeded to LP ALPHA, we waited and held the position until the signal from the base that Gen. Jun G armies was on the move. In the stillness of the night while we were waiting for the signal, ROT the comedian of the team started singing “KUMBAYA” which also caused a chain reaction, we did make fun of that instances, everybody was singing along others was talking about the stars and for some reason it helped us calm ourselves down with the tensions and stress we’re undergoing. Suddenly, we saw the flare and it was the signal, we raised the blue flag on LP ALPHA indicating that we already captured it. We then move out to LP BRAVO, LT giving the command to haul our Asses to LP BRAVO for he surely knows that the enemy was doing the same thing upon seeing the signal. I recall LT ordered me and SIN to be the point and we did, we climb up the hill gun drawn toward the top, I also heard in the radio that “Edmond” of TMS saying “Move, Move”, Sin and I know that TMS was handling the right side of the Hill so we move towards the left giving us much wider kill zone if ever we encounter tangos. SIN and I reached the top of the hill; we radioed back LT giving the clear to go. Above the hill was an open plateau and we can see LP BRAVO right in front of us, we set up perimeter and from that point we saw troops movement from the enemy, it was the Landican Republican guard they saw us and shots were fired in all direction, during the gun fight I heard someone shouted angrily “HIT, HIT “, to my surprise I saw my teammate ROYG down, and from that we gave the enemy hell, our bullets acts as the hammer striking down on their heads like nails.
Some of the soldiers in our position were shouting “KUNIN NYO NA YUN FLAG”, indicating that it was within our grasped but no one has the balls to run to it and raised the blue flag, LT told me that he and I will take the flag, I told him “OK”, we run towards LP BRAVO knowing that tangos were all around us shooting from position we don’t know. At last we reached LP BRAVO, LT had a hard time raising the flag for the rope was jammed, he gave me his M733 weapon and tried to released the rope, as LT daringly stand to unhook the jam, I crouched myself to the small rocks pointing my cover above another hill.
After a second, LT finally got the blue flag up at LP BRAVO (For the Record, It was RBG and TMS who conquered LP ALPHA and LP BRAVO), he ordered to assembled the team at LP BRAVO, I recall him saying “RBG, RBG MOVE” when the guys were all there, LT planned to take out the next post which is CHARLIE but this time enemy forces was beginning to mass above our position, we can’t call on any reinforcement, for our backup was still moving to our position, LT planned to take out the hilltop and established a perimeter strong enough to hold it until our reinforcement arrived, he order me SIN and DT to take the point we climb up the hill, upon climbing I saw three friend lies , they told us that they couldn’t move tangos was above the hill, SIN and I crawled up the hill and heard tangos shouting “DITO, DITO MERON” to I disagreeessment there were three tangos at that time asking for reinforcement, I told SIN that on the count of three we’ll do a suppressive firing mode while running to their position, SIN was on my left and would give us a better kill zone.
I counted to three and we run like hell firing to their position, I saw one tango somehow got surprised with our move and immediately drop to the ground, as I climb up I saw another person drop down to his belly covering from our firing I shot him but didn’t react, I thought that this could be a friendly so I let him go, but upon loading I dropped to the ground next to this fellow thinking that he is friendly, then suddenly he shot me in extremely close proximity, he almost touch my back with this barrel then open fire, I said f@ck the “dead came to life”, I shouted “HIT” grabbed my blinker and got down the hill.
As I went down the hill some of the tangos keep shooting at me even though I raised my hand holding my blinker. As I went down to LP BRAVO, I saw Mclaren protecting LP BRAVO, he somehow feeding information on the location of tangos above the hill and directing our reinforcing team that slowly moving up, he’s telling them that there were friend lies above trying to push forward, we own a great deal to Mclaren for this valiant effort to stay there and help our troops, cause if not for him we could been caught in a cross fire between the enemy and of our own troops.
Chapter 4: THE LANDICAN MARATHON
After some period of time, I was ready to go back in and help my fellow teammate above the hill fighting the Landican army, Mclaren already moved up the hill to support SIN, ELIAS, DT, LT and Ex-O in holding the line. At first we only encounter small arms fire but now the half of the Landican Republican Army was on top of us, desperate for back-up, we can’t do nothing for the moment but to stay put and hold LP BRAVO.
At the midst of the gun fight, LT and DT went down to LP BRAVO, now we had four guys holding the top of the hill, but fate was again in our side as our next wave of reinforcement came. As we briefed our allies of the situation above the hill, LT instructed me to assemble the guys and let the reinforcement handle the battle above; obviously LT was cooking for a plan. I went to my radio and said “CALLING ALL RBG GET YOUR BUTTS DOWN HERE” LT called on to all RBG to pull out from their position and fall back to LP BRAVO, none of the Mercs responded, again I call on to them saying “I SAY AGAIN, ABORT MISSION, ABORT, ABORT”, ELIAS responded back and informed us that they’re on their way.
Only Elias and ROT came down the hill, apparently SIN, Ex-O and MCLAREN didn’t receive our call due to radio signal problem. LT got no more choice but to use what resources he had on hand, he was planning to out flank the Landican to the left. As we tackle our flanking tactics, more and more of our reinforcement are coming and quickly positioned above the hill to repel the Landican army. LT saw the opportunity and ordered us to move out to the direction far left of the battle.
LT, ROT, ELIAS, DT and me was moving out to the left when two personnel from TMS joined us for the maneuver, it was MICO and FERNANDO, seven of us already formed a fireteam and slowly made our move towards the extreme left of the hill. I took point followed by FERNANDO and ELIAS. As we move further and further we noticed that not just we can out flanked the enemy in the hills above but we can rather out flanked them head on directly in the rear of their base. LT saw the opportunity and quickly change our initiative from capturing the hilltop to capturing the base. LT knew that the reinforcements were quite substantial to hold on LP BRAVO, and by consensus of the team we execute our new initiative.
We run, we crawl and we hike for 2 to 3 hours and when we reached the top of the mountain situated behind the Landican Republic stronghold, from that moment we can see everything in that position we can see enemy troop movements and camp activities right there, but a sudden chill also breezed in for we know that we’re already in Landican Republic territory, we mis-shoot our target by hundreds of meters and end up at the backdoor of the enemy.
We saw another dilemma, for we know that we can’t take out the entire Landican forces by just the seven of us, so we again asked the question whether we go back or push forward until reaching the Red Base. The consensus was made, and the consensus was to move forward. We arrived at the second mountaintop and the view was getting better and better, we are directly on top and at the rear of the Landican Army without them knowing. At time we thought that we were detected cause the base spot light sometimes point to our position, I remember someone from our team whisper “DOWN, DOWN” cause the beam of light was on top of us, but they didn’t saw us.
As we’re about to move a frantic radio message was picked-up by all of us saying that the base was being overrun, someone from our side was asking for immediate extraction and reinforcement because the base was being overrun, LT instructed ROT to call on any of the Mercs left at LP BRAVO, none responded to the call, ROT call on to ROYG somehow we established link with ROYG but the signal was choppy.
LT again instructed ROT to switch to the base camp frequency and get info regarding the situation, ROT got through the base and warned them of possible closing enemy movement. Base camp replied that everything was ok, base camp was well fortified and from that moment, I think I heard SIN and MCLAREN saying LP BRAVO was overrun. The seven of us felt hopeless as we hear our teammates asking for help but we can’t do nothing, we are so deep within enemy territory to go back and help, if ever we backtrack, we won’t be on time to saved the post for it would take us an hour or so to reach LP BRAVO.
All ROT can do was give our guys down there a kind of support, telling them to hold the line at all cause, I can hear SIN asking my location looking for me for support, all I can do was tell him that we’re behind the enemy and was about to surprise them just to boost the morale of my comrades.
After that transmission, there was radio silence on our guys at LP BRAVO, at that moment I just hope that they’re doing ok.
Chapter 5: GHOST ENCOUNTER OF THE FIRST KIND
As the seven of us move deeper within Landican territory, we stubble across a construction site situated 50 meters behind the back entrance of the RED Camp. LT gather us all for a briefing on what are our next move from that point. A lot of suggestion was brought up either we go hit them head on, other suggest to move further to left to use the thick cover of bushes and another suggest to wait until the enemy was tired and worn out.
LT decided that we move further to the left and used the thick cover of the bushes before executing any raid. As we were about too move out two personnel from the construction site turn the high intensity light towards our position, MICO and I hurried to the two personnel and asked them politely if they could turn the light pointing towards the enemies camp, which they did graciously. As we move further and further again we came across a big pile of dirt dug up from a series of hills beyond our position, this time we’re walking on an open dirt road and the only cover we had was the side of the hills being terra formed. There was one particular road that would lead closer to the rear of the Red Base. ROT was the point stops us due to the curvature of the hill, which would be a blind spot for us, he asked me to go up and take a look at it, which I did.
I handed down my rifle to ROT and begin crawling up the road to see what was beyond the curve road, as I peep I saw that there was another hill above the hill was a tree, as I got bit more closer, suddenly I saw a silhouette of a man moving away from the tree, I panicked and rushed back to the guys position and informed them of tangos above the hill near the tree moving, I think LT and ROT saw the man moving, and all of us scramble for cover.
LT, ROT, DT, MICO and FERNANDO managed to run across the road for cover while me and ELIAS was left on the road with our belly down the dirt gun drawn towards our 12. We waited and waited and waited but nothing, I think it took us 10 min to realize that there’s no one there, but we never let our guard down. I kept thinking on what I saw, I know I saw a man it’s not clear whether he was running or floating, because the way I saw him move I never saw legs moving only the upper torso. LT radioed me instructing me to fall back and cross the road to link up with them and we did, ELIAS told me to count five step and turn around for the next man to move.
As I moved behind ELIAS, ELIAS suddenly point his gun upward towards the top of the hill, instinctively I did the same, ELIAS was moving back to my position and from then on I was rattled to see a man in boonie hat watching me and ELIAS above, I didn’t hear any sound of movements even from the grass for him not to be noticed, I was hesitant to open fire for this will surely give away our position, what I did was I point my gun at him and scare him off but the guy just keep looking and suddenly the silhouette vanished right before my eyes.
As we cross the road to join LT, me and ELIAS was at the back of the line again I swear I saw a person in white moving behind the road were we came from, told LT that I saw movements at our 6 and I gone to check it out, ELIAS went with me and jump over the side of the dirt road, as I was about to jump over, the movement and the person in white again vanished. I thought to myself that maybe I’m just tired, thirsty and hungry for my mind to play tricks on me. But we continued on with our mission knowing that there something unexplainable was following us, watching us or worst trying to haunt us.
Chapter 6: The Ambush
We continued walking down the dirt road on a line formation, LT took point behind me was ROT and the guys; suddenly we heard voices talking and flashlight pointing to our direction. LT Order to take cover LT took one side of the road while we were in other the side, point our gun towards the voices and light we waited for them to be closer, closer, closer and we open fire, we gave them hell, the enemy doesn’t know what hits them, within the chaos LT heard a familiar voice and asked them if they’re blue, the other guys replied back “Blue”, oh sh@t we ambush the wrong guys, they were friend lies remnants soldiers of the Northern Alliance, upon knowing this we seized fire and was thankful that we finally linked up with allies, when they asked us where did we came from, they were amazed with our answer they couldn’t believed that it took us 3 hours to hike the entire mountain to get to this point.
Now we had a combined team and our numbers was enough to take out the base, we cautiously crawled down the back of the Red Base, as we approach nearly 20 meters behind the red camp, one of our allies was spotted by Landican sentries and open fire, now our position was given away, they know we’re here, our fireteam situated ourselves farther to the right closer to the back entrance of the camp while the Northern Alliance was covering the left, amidst the gun fight the enemy execute a suppressive firing mode while running towards the Northern Alliance position in the left without knowing that we were there holding the right.
As they march and firing towards the left, many of our allies got hit, but when the enemy came across our path without them knowing that we’re approximately 3 feet from their position, DT, LT and me simultaneously open fire. We know for a fact we got a lot of them, it was turkey shooting in my point of view. Upon firing at them, I heard the enemy that supposedly should be dead said “DITO MERON PA DITO”, and started bombarding us with bullets. We can’t do anything since we were out numbered and out gun, we tried holding them back but the odds were overwhelming and our team was overrun by a top secret weapon of the Landican Republics which is the Androids soldiers.
We gave a valiant fight with the enemy. I congratulate Team Mission Specific and RBG Mercs for carrying out this mission and the passion they shown, the camaraderie and honesty they set as example during the entire mission. To all Long Live Airsoft. Long Live RBG Mercs.
RESPECT.