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Military Narrative

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The world is at war. It all started 5 years after high school, I was enlisted into the United States army. I was in the army special forces as an engineer that primarily worked on tanks and vehicles of higher armor class. I had just returned from active duty and was visiting my family back in Oregon. I planned to go look into houses for myself. That's when I got the call. *ring ring* *click* “hello, yes, this is him. Hi, um, I can't do that today sir. No sir. Sorry sir. I'll see what I can do, sir.” I had just gotten a call about me going back to serve because one of my good friends was going back, one that was injured badly and lost an arm. As I went around the neighborhoods in new Milwaukie, I noticed some of the same houses that my friends …show more content…

The fuel was a bit rich and the engine was also running without new spark plugs. It ran well, but the supercharger kicking on totally ruined the internals, stripping parts by accident.
I labored for about 5 hours with brian’s help, rebuilding the engine and replacing some parts. I took some sheet metal off the Plymouth duster he had sitting there and build some supports for the bed so it could have more weight. Finally brian and I were driving. Annoyed and exhausted, I heard “Where are we going?” “I’m going to say our school, so we can look at what was …show more content…

The football field was made into a new campus, and they relocated the field. They added new school programs to excel kids into the war. We have been losing soldiers to both sides of the world due to the mass scale obliteration with war equipment. Our only hope was that the numbers on our side stay lower than the rest. To prevail, we had helped kids finish high school and jump right into military service, many, who would have been the deadbeats that lived in Felony Flats, made a good name for themselves serving. I had met some of these fine young men. “Hey Brian, remember my grandfather Bompa?” With a quick reply, “yeah I remember him, how is he doing?” “They replaced his legs, he is in the higher ranks, now.” “higher ranks of what?” “They brought him back to the army again” “That’s amazing, he’s like 80 right?” “86” I say as I laugh hard. Ever since Russia made the decision to bomb North Korea to oblivion, the United Nations got involved and everyone went to war. Canada came to our defense, but their fleet was absolutely demolished by the Chinese war ships. The war brought all of the superpowers to war and now there is catastrophic damage across the globe. Every city similar to Portland has grown in size by at least 50% to compensate for the losses. “Where do you want to go

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