Note: sorry if the photos don’t really match up with the story, I took these before finishing them so yeah.
Although the enemy had surprised us, we recovered quickly and before you know it, we were gunning em down by the dozens. What they were expecting was a small inexperienced battalion or two, fresh out of training, as is the usual situation for these small unimportant planets. What they got instead was a well trained battle hardened battalion of veterans, sent here to recover from previous wounds. And surprisingly Ribbs wasn’t that bad. Yeah sure he still lagged behind a lot, and he seemed to have lived a well sheltered life before the war and such. But still proved to be a vertical soldier and outright deadly at times. “We definitely got one of the better rookies.” I thought after seeing him gun down a charging brute that day. Of course afterwards he was forever mentally scarred by the thought that he had actually killed someone, human or not. We all went through that experience new what it felt like. But I will admit that part where he curled up and started sobbing was a little much considering the situation we were in, but I should just be thankful. I heard of one squad where they had a rookie who didn’t even know how to reload his gun. Honestly I don’t know how the kid got through basic training.
Although the enemy had surprised us, we recovered quickly and before you know it, we were gunning em down by the dozens. What they were expecting was a small inexperienced battalion or two, fresh out of training, as is the usual situation for these small unimportant planets. What they got instead was a well trained battle hardened battalion of veterans, sent here to recover from previous wounds. And surprisingly Ribbs wasn’t that bad. Yeah sure he still lagged behind a lot, and he seemed to have lived a well sheltered life before the war and such. But still proved to be a vertical soldier and outright deadly at times. “We definitely got one of the better rookies.” I thought after seeing him gun down a charging brute that day. Of course afterwards he was forever mentally scarred by the thought that he had actually killed someone, human or not. We all went through that experience new what it felt like. But I will admit that part where he curled up and started sobbing was a little much considering the situation we were in, but I should just be thankful. I heard of one squad where they had a rookie who didn’t even know how to reload his gun. Honestly I don’t know how the kid got through basic training.