A Report On The Seals - 1495 Words

It was 0400 at the staging area, the SEALs had shown up in four fully outfitted DPV’s (Desert Patrol Vehicles – Off road vehicles used for combat). Captain O’Hara wondered where the hell they had been keeping those. The plan was that the SEALs would for the most part move hard and fast to the museum and secure it, then hold it until the much larger Marine follow on force arrived. The Marine follow on force consisted of the entire Marine Company; they had pulled, temporarily, the Marine platoon from the school to help with this operation. The SEALs would leave at 0415 and they were itching to go, they were actually looking forward to it. The Marines in armored Humvees and two-half ton trucks, the old M-35’s, would follow thirty†¦show more content†¦The mission was the museum; let the Marines deal with idiots that wanted to take them on and God help them if they did. If you can call if a benefit of the EMP event that it happened on a weekend l ate in the evening which meant there wasn’t a great deal of traffic on the roads. Post event, as they were finding out, it made getting down the roads they needed to quicker and less risky. The SEALs were driving the DPV’s balls out, while the others in the vehicles were looking for potential bad guys. At five miles out they hadn’t seen a living soul, at six and seven miles they had passed through two very small camps, they surprised the hell out of the occupants, they saw that several members of the camps were armed but the SEALs passed through them so quick that they didn’t have time to react. They radioed back the information to the main convoy to be on the lookout for the armed civilians in the camps. At mile eight they entered a large camp that looked to have a population in the hundreds, they realized they wouldn’t be able to go around it; their only option was to pass directly through it. The road passed through the center of it with al l sorts of tents, dwellings made of wood and cardboard, some people only had a tarp over them. The SEALs moved slowly through the camp, people were startled to say the least as seeing the