Operation Tandem

[Delfos]

*Exercise Valiant Eagle*

The high ranks and the Ministry House of Defense representatives were all set to see their arrival. It was scheduled they would arrive already in exercise, dropped from the skies and securing the first objective, the Barracks, near Kujsk. There were dummies waiting for them, some had tennis-ball shooters with auto triggers, it would be fun. Then they had to defend, inside there were weapons with dummy bullets, they would face an air assault by the "Precs" Airborne Special Force. It was just the first day, just to let them have a bit of fun in the exercise...

*Exercise Valiant Guardian*

NDS Kandinsky and NDS Monet were arriving the training area. They were escorted by a small fleet of multi-role frigates and Fast attack crafts. The small landing ships were ready to start the exercise in hot waters, the marines were ready to be instructed to the scenery ahead. It was up to the Valideen Navy to decide their fate.

[Delfos]

*Delfian School*

The New Delfos Air Force Airborne Transport Service arrived the south of Collosean Federation. The doors were opened and several high ranked stepped out, along with a small Special Force.
NDAF Captain Ribeiro: "Alright, where's the man in charge of you boys? I need the lists."
Guy in front: "Aren't we supposed to go?"
Cpt Ribeiro: "No no, change of plans, we're staying here for some time, and only after some basics we move everyone to New Delfos."

[Osamafune]

"Staying here? May I ask why?" asked Hypopterarhos Dimitris IX, commander of the newly created Air Assault Division of the Collosean Air Force.

Despite having a high rank in the air force, he is under orders to treat the Delfian officers as his superiors to help build close relations with Delfos.

<ooc>Hypopterarhos is an air force rank. Dimitris is the "guy in front."</ooc>

[Delfos]

*Delfian School*

Cpt Ribeiro check's the guy's plate, "Dimitris, we will make the introduction to the Airborne, Air Assault, and anything related to para-trooping in here instead of going now to the motherland, i hope this facilities are good enough for that. We brought the materials, nothing you need to bring, we also brought weapons that we use so that we all have the same training...alright, you're the man in charge of this division i see, so give your first order, make your men help mine to unload the cargo. Weapon crates are in that plane, parachutes and related items are in that one, and the rest of the materials are distributed by both planes, the other planes are the ones we will use for training."

Captain Ribeiro opened a bag they brought with them, pulled out two similar weapons, Dimitris seemed to like it. It had a fancy red symbol on the side of it, and in the model said XA-02 and the other was a XA-02P.

Cpt Ribeiro: "These are the weapons we handle in the Airborne Assault unit, and i brought with me a squad of 'Percursores', the "Precs", our Airborne Assault Special Force, they will help your men and will introduce them to tactics and combat experience, I picked them myself, they were in action for Operation Sweet Vodka in the extinct nation of Llanydern. Here..."

Dimitris caught the XA-02, saw it was light, very simple and versatile, and it was amasingly similar to the AK47, but lighter, shorter, and improved. Then he tried the XA-02P, it was practically the same, probably lighter than the standard model, and had several tracks for add-on. Cpt Ribeiro took a laser designator, a scope, a grenade launcher and a flashlight from the bag and started to mount them in the XA-02P. He handed back the rifle and Dimitris couldn't believe.

Cpt Ribeiro: "There's other accessories, you can have a front-grip, it's what they normally use, an optic scope, infra-red screen, whatever. We will talk more about it when we introduce our weapons. Now carry on, let's unload this aircraft."

[Osamafune]

Dimitris quickly tossed the rifle off to his junior officer that was with him. "Tell the men to start unloading the plane. You know where it all goes, right?"

With a stiff, unchanging face, the junior officer answered, "Yes Sir." He turned around, and began in the troops' direction.


"Captain Ribeiro, here are the lists you asked for, sir." Dimitris handed the Delfian captain a folder containing the lists.

[Delfos]

*Delfian School*

Cpt Ribeiro: "Alright", a quick look into the folder, "I'll see this soon, lets get those crates out."

After some time loading, the men were divided, and they ran to the local shooting ground to test the weapons. After a couple of rounds per trooper, everyone was satisfied. The men were then divided in 2 again and with 4 classes, they were introduced to the vocabulary. In the end of the afternoon, Capt Ribeiro whistled.
"Let's call it for the day, tomorrow we begin before there's any sun in the sky."

ooc:Would be interesting if you RPed the ambient in the barracks or tents, showing their evolution through the course, things like that. I'm not going to RP every day, this was just the first, then i will be for weeks.

*Exercise Valiant Guardian*
The marines entered their landing crafts, they mounted the machines in the front, everything was ready to the start. Since it took some time, some of the men were issued to make a patrol surveillance near the landing beaches and to function as Early Warning.

[Validus]

**Exercise Valiant Eagle**

"LETS MOVE! PEOPLE ARE DYING OUT THERE! GO! GO! GO!" yelled a Warrant as his troops ran with their rucksacks between their legs onto a fleet of VC-130's Hercules and VC-177s Globe Master IIIs. The soldiers were wearing VADPAT. Dressed in Full Fighting Order, the troops ran into the planes.

The Warrant walked over with ruck between his knees to his plane. "Lets get this shit on the Road," said the warrant to a Sergeant.

"Aye," replied the Sergeant.

Soon all the soldiers were loaded onto the fleet of aircraft. Two Regiments of the 1st Airborne Division also known as the Black Knights.

The flight took nearly three hours on board the Military Transports but they finally reached the DZ.

Over the Radio, which was played loudly in each Plane. "Ok, Troops. We will be dropping in 2 minutes. Remember this is a non-Combat demistration Drop. both Regiments will drop and then organize at the Objectives. Good Luck, god speed."

Moments Passed and the rear red light turned on, "STAND UP!" yelled the jump master.

Everyone inside stood up and clipped their cords to the wire above them.

A the light turned Yellow. "THIRTY SECONDS!" He yelled again.

Everyone inside started counting off checking over the persons kit infront of them. They got to the back. A few more seconds passed and the light turned Green. "GO! GO! GO! GO!" The sky filled with parachutes from the Division.

~Thanato

[Delfos]

**Exercise Valiant Eagle**
The scenery was set as the planes crossed the skies. Word was that the Delfian Airborne Assault Division were already in the air and the "Precs" were assisting from up the hill. As the Valideen paratroopers landed their objectives were clear, get to the paintball weapons and prepare to defend the structures from the Delfian paratroopers.

**Exercise Valiant Guardian**
The forces were ordered the GO for landing. With the Early-Warning support they spotted the best place to land, most of the landing crafts headed there, while others had strategic points.
"Get those Yuri out of here!" Ordered the Commander to the beach assaulting squads in Jurmo crafts.
"Alright, let's move." - said Master Sergeant Brevinic to his men. The environment was fine, cloudy skies, a bit cold, but it was fine, at his right he could see the other squads rushing to the main disembark point. His task was another, to rush for the hills northwards the main point to support the infantry with light-machine-guns and sharpshooters. Although, he only had a pair of sharpshooters and another of supports. But he was assured, there were more with strategic points. This was his first time as squad leader...he was very nervous, but he made his possible to not show to his men, always with a smile of confidence. The objective was close.

"Listen! 20 seconds for landing, you both see those trees? we need to get up there, there's some easy climbing rocks on the left side, we are not supposed to go from there but it's our best option. Let us handle the way up, we will cover and wait for you all, when we walk out the platform, you guys stay in the boat and cover, understood?!"
"yes sir!"

They got close to the ramp, he could feel his heart flooding his body with adrenaline. An awful noise came from the bellow the floor, the boat was passing over some rocks, and seconds after the motors were stopped. The pilot seemed concerned but he carried on, the boat reached the shore and the ramp gone down.

"GO!" Brevinic rushed out of the boat with so much strenght that all the others were left behind. He reached the rocks and started climbing the first ones, after finding a good rocky platform he watched the hills above for any trap. The others reached him and continued. Almost up there, he could see the trees,
"You two! Wait, throw the grappling hooks there, try to reach the trees, see if they are solid. You guys keep going around, move!"
The hooks worked perfectly, they started climbing in alternated times, they reached the top some 10 seconds before the guys that went around did.
"OK, communicate to the boat, we're at the Objective Trees. Did you guys see anything the way up there?"
"No sir! We only heard the boats arriving the beach."
"Oh well, you can see that from here, look...amasing. Alright enough of this, get to defensive positions, get dirty and sand for this bags!"
But he kept looking...the view was amasing, he never seen any exercise like this, it seemed like an invasion force. You could even see the fleet. He had a job to do, the other guys arrived and the communications man with a laptop on logistics settled himself in the improvised trench.
"Give me confirmation of the those wooden structures over there."
"They are already in the map sir, Vasco says those were confirmed minutes ago as Objective Gamma."
"Do you count 37 obstacles in the beach?"
"No, only 20."
"Here, here and here, groups of five are missing, transmit ASAP."
"Roger."
Massive amounts of troops started to disembark on the beach, two small trenches were created while the rest kept going. There was a rocky hill ahead, with a road. The objective was to secure all land to the road for transports.
"They are late, you guys stay here and support us and them. We're moving to the North part of the road, we can't stay here forever. See those wooden structures? We're going to split, you take the left one i take the right one. Ready?"
"In position, ready."
"Ready sir!"
"Ready to move!"
"To those bushes first, go!"
They started to run, when they reached the bushes they formed a line.
"OK, easy smoke."
"Smoke!"
"Smoke!"
"Fine, go!"
"Sir! watch the road!"
"Those are obstacles, keep running."
They reached the structures and started a quick assault.
"Left Structure Clear!"
Brenivic climbed to the top floor and saw a bag.
"Get down!"
"It's just a bag, let me check it."
"Alright, everyone else stay down."
"Oh very funny, we got objective Gamma."
"What?"
"It's what it says in this paper."
"Oh ok...transmit to our guy for logistics, we have Gamma."
"June Six, Here's June One, We have Gamma."
"Say again?"
"We have Gamma, we have Objective Gamma."
"Copy, transmitting...alright, we need new orders."
"They are asking for new orders, sir."
"Our guys will stay here, the rest moves back to meet the ones left, tell them to stay where they are."

Sergeant Fernandes ran up the hill for Objective Gamma, it was the last one for him. He saw some people in the structures and used precaution.
Sgt. Fernandes: "Wolf Spotted!"
Everyone dropped to the dirty ground and aimed to the structure.
Sgt. Fernandes: "Get me info on the Wolf."
"It's a pack of wolves sergeant."
"Extra careful then, quick on that info."
"Sir, they are friendly, 3rd Special Deployment Squad."
Sgt. Fernandes: "Argh! Let's meet them, I wanna know what they are doing in my objective."

Brenivic: "Hey! Who are you guys?!"
Fernandes: "5th Front Line Landing Squad!"
Brenivic: "What took you so long?"
Fernandes: "The weather and this stupid road. What are you guys doing in my objective?"
Brenivic: "Well we couldn't sit waiting for you, we moved, nothing to worry, there was no surprises here, I guess they weren't expecting anyone coming from the rocks."
Fernandes: "Well, good, was there any message here?"
Brenivic: "Yes, this paper, has a code in the bottom."
Fernandes: "Alright, we're finished. I've brought this on the way..."
Brenivic: "Vodka? Don't touch that unless you share with my guys."
Fernandes: "Sure."

[Osamafune]

It was a good first day of training all things considered. The soldiers got used to the guns and got used to the paratrooping lingo. There were numerous problems unfortunately.

They were essentially a force of 400 conscripts; being ramdomly drafted from the various provencial paramilitaries. Your average  Collosean isn't the xenophobic type, but many seemed to take offense to having to follow the orders of a foreign military officer. To top it all off, most of them seemed to have a phobia of some sort. For example, Colaeus VIII is afraid of heights, Nearchus X is afraid to operate a gun, and Scylax III simply doesn't like the out doors.

There are only two people who seem gratefull to be here and they are Dramytinos XV and Dimitris IX, but even they had their share of problems.

Dramytinos was already in the Air Force and he's a thrill junkie. He often times bungee jumps when he gets the chance and he has taken a sky diving course. Flinging his body out of planes and off of bridges aren't the only things he enjoys though, he also likes to fling little steel balls out of narrow steel tubes. Once he got his weapons, he was pumping lead down range like a mad man. While Nearchus who was next to Dramytinos had only gotten three shots off (and missed each one), Dramytinos had gotten off who knows how many clips of ammo. At one point, he went crazy with the light machine gun. He just sprayed automatic fire at everyone's targets. This is going to be a hard one to control, that's for sure.

Dimitris is the commander of the AAD. He served in the Army briefly during the second civil war; he left for the Air Force shortly after it ended. Right now, Dimitris is in much the same boat as everyone else. While he was ordered to take a sky diving course after accepting his nomination to the position, he knows nothing about how paratroopers operate before jumping out of the planes and after they land.

Dimitris is highly worried about the morale of his men. Because that night, he had overheard Scylax speaking with Colaeus. He's been going on and on about how the government has their priorities screwed up. Collosea's military can barely stand up on it's own without foreign support. "We should be more concerned on that and our defense." he says. After all, paratroopers are offensive military units. We must be intending on using them against someone if we decided to create the AAD at a time when 6,000 army soldiers are being shipped over seas against an unknown enemy. An enemy the government has failed to reveal. Morale and public opinion was dismal indeed...

[Delfos]

**Delfian School**

The 1st week was finished with some theoretic content and some physical training.
The real deal was in the 2nd week, air drop simulation. For that, everyone helped to raise several structures to assist all the simulations.

Sergeant of the Corps Gonçalves: "Alright, now that we are up here, this floor is your friend, it's your home, you are standing in your own country, it's your quarters. But the moment you leave this door, you will be facing your enemy, the one you need to overtake."

Colaeus VIII: "But sir...isn't that too high?"

Sergeant of the Corps Gonçalves: "You will be air dropped from high sky and you think this is high?"

Colaeus: "Yes, I mean, no sir. But we don't have any parachutes."

Gonçalves: "You don't need one here, just stay confident. What's the matter with you, you shacking?"

[Osamafune]

"Take it easy man." Scylax gave Colaeus a pat on the shoulder. "This jump is nothin. Just make sure you land on your feet and nothing will go wrong.:

"Th-that's easy for you to say..."

Evidently Gonçalves could smell his fear; he had put Colaeus first in line. "Jump on three!" He announces to the men. "One... two... THREE!"

Colaeus hesitated for just a second then went. His nervousness had gotten the better of him though. When he landed, his leggs gave way and he went to his hands and knees. He hunched over and wasn't able to get out of the way for Scylax who was right behind him. He didn't see this coming and had expected him to get out of the way when he landed. Scylax jumped just a split second before the landing.

"Oh son of a bit-." Colaeus heard Scylax coming and had straightened up. His helmet went into the groin of Scylax, who would have just missed Colaues altogether if he had stayed still.

Scylax's feet landed flat on the ground, his hand went straight to his crotch, and Colaeus's face plowed the dirt between his feet. Scylax let out a grunt as he took a few steps forward in manly agony before tipping over and falling face first.

The rest of the soldiers in the mock plane busted out with laughter.

Gonçalves let out a sigh. "This is going to be a long three weeks..."


<ooc>Tell me how long the training is going to take place so I can edit that last line</ooc>

[Validus]

**Exercise Valiant Eagle**

The Paratroopers descended into fields bellow. After hitting the dirt they quickly got control of their parachutes, disconnected the harnesses secured the chutes and rucked up. As quickly as they landed they dispursed amongst the Trees and overgrowth around the large fields.

Each Battalion had its own objective, 1 Battalion, Royal Airborne Infantry Regiment, 1 Airborne Division was to capture in force a compound, which was believed to be deserted and secure a large Weapons Cache. Were 2 Battalion, of the same Regiment was to secure a long road connected DZ Pronto to the compound, and set up Outposts along the route.

1 Battalion, Royal Assault Airborne Regiment was to provide a mounted Point Recce in the provided Vehicles, which were dropped with the Division. The rest of the Division was to secure the surrounding Area and provide early warning and dig into hard points to prevent any counter attack.

~Thanato

[Delfos]

**Exercise Valiant Eagle**
The planes were already in the skies, going tot he last vector before the snowing run.
"Go ahead with Valiant Eagle, everything is settled".

The first group of planes would drop vehicles and manpower to the rear field in front of the compound, while a second group would drop either above the compound or right next to it.
It was time for the 1st drops, everything went OK, Silva  saw the red light and ordered his men to prepare.
"Numbers!" All went checking each other's equipment and ended up everyone was ready. He could see the green fields bellow, and the trees...
"Green light! GO, GO, GO!"
Now it was the time for the delfians, Silva held his parachute and looked down, the compound was very close, too close for his taste. He could see the Airborne Support Division reaching the compound. *touch down*

"On me men!" Squads formed up in minutes, they used every hiding places they have seen, you could hear the paintball splashing in the compound while some of the squads were practically falling in it.
"Let's move, you see those guys? save ammunition, line up with their formation and shoot them in sight, we go this way, move!"
They waited until the other guys reached their firing positions and decimated the compound's side wall. The rest of the squad move up the hill trying to reach the compound, several valideen appeared on top of the structure shooting at them.
"Cover!" but was too late, most of his men were down. Luckily the valideen didn't noticed the supporting firing positions, after a dozen of shots everything was fine. Silva kept moving towards the compound. They reached there, very few of the whole squad, he called his supporting positions to help them in the field. Several valideen tried to come around to shoot this bastards but Silva and his men got it all covered, although...moments later valideen appeared from above, shooting down from the structure, killed half of the remaining squad.
"Defend here! We can't move, cover the walls and all their ways!"

Other squads were decimated, the valideen had a very strong defense, but this wasn't over. The Airborne Support Division appeared on top of the hill, they used the vehicles as shields. The tension continued...

ooc:I don't mind loosing this 'celebration paintball party' , i lost most of my forces in the 1st assault, the remaining men are guarding the exterior of the compound, then i have men in front of the compound defending your way out, your main force is inside the structure. So i can't stand much of a chance. After this day we start exercises. You give your own exercises RPing my men and yours, then my turn, untill the Collesean paratroopers arrive, and we all have fun... lol alright?

[Validus]

"MOVE!" Yelled a man with two bars. "KEEP THEIR HEADS DOWN LADS!" A company along the north wall was engaging the troops who had just dropped from the sky. They were engaging them with Simunitions, a type of training round which fires a small sphere of paint out of a live cartridge.

3 Battalion, Royal Airborne Infantry Regiment, was in the bush holding the northern flank. When they heard shots behind the lines. The Battalions Commander radioed in to the Regimental Control Post, which was located in a heavily defended portion of the woods. The Battalion, minus 1 Company was to head in and support the defending units at the Compound.

It took them nearly 30 minutes to walk the distance, but once they got in range two of the Companies formed a front against the enemy. With the third was formed up in Reserve, which also covered the Flanks.

~Thanato

[Delfos]

**Exercise Valiant Eagle**
When Silva turned his head back and saw the amount of valideen coming his way, he didn't had a chance to stay there.
"Look there, let's get with the Support, we can't hold them here!" His squad started to run from outside of the compound, some valideen got in the way and were quickly taken care of, but they were doomed.
The valideen coming from the north made a line of fire and it was a duck hunt, luckily Silva got away with few of his men. "To the bushes!" After all reunited he looked at them, "Only 4 of us? damn, I'm almost out of ammo, do you still have extra ammo?"
"Ammo? right here, but can't give you more, sir. Maybe we really should reach the Support position, they have plenty of it."
"Or we rush to the Compound, steal some ammo and will probably live for some time more.."
"I don't know chief..."
"We're risking our lives the same way going up or down, let's try to get to the fort."
"Yes sir, at your order."
"Get ready!, prepare the flash bangs, smoke now!"
"Smoke!"
* they waited for the smoke and then moved to the compound right ahead of them, the valideen understood and started shooting through the smoke, another down...only 3 men charging, this was suicide.*
"CHAAAARGE!" In a shooting spree, he hit most of the valideen in front of him, seems the attack was taken by surprise, and since they were so few, most of any other shooters didn't seem to want to waste ammo on them...but by surprise, his 'charge' scream made 2 other squads run towards the compound, that was what distracted the shooters.
"Enter there, watch the corners!"
As soon one of the 3 entered received 3 shots on the side. Silva saw that and thrown himself to the ground and shot to the place where the shots came from. Lucky him, all hit. He didn't had more ammo, he picked one of the valideen rifles and ran to the weapons cache. He turned back and saw his 2 other men getting shot from behind, 3 valideen came from nowhere, he shot 2 but was brutally shot right after.
"I'm down, medic..."

The other 2 squads eliminated the compound's first line and ran to where Silva was.
"Compound secured, defend here! I'm calling the Support!"
Unfortunately, the force was drastically reduced, the valideen on the north were already on top of them and in bigger numbers. The valideen flanks shown up from the forest surprising the delfian Support.
When Sergeant Duarte saw this he tried to scream to the Support to join them in the compound.
"COME HERE! We can't hold them like this! If they cut us in half we're doomed!!!"
The valideen saw the opportunity and surrounded the compound in instants. The Support fell or was captured right after, now the valideen were ready to assault the compound again. Several delfians were hit trying to defend it, the valideen had a siege perimeter all around, it was perfect, only breakable from outside. A flag came from inside the compound...
"We, the Airborne Assault Division of New Delfos surrender to your troops!"
This generated laughter from inside and outside the compound.
Duarte came out from the front door and was received by the 3rd Battalion CO.
"Why did you surrender?"
"Well, we were few, your friends emptied the weapon caches, we didn't have reinforcement, and since this is an Airborne exclusive exercise we didn't had the chance to call for anything. Instead of continuing this massacre, we chose to spare your life, and ours..."

**Delfian School**
Gonçalves: "See? Was that hard? Now you must think, if Colaeus can do it, why can't you?" *some more laughter* "Now, everyone, jump out"
They orderly jumped out, no single problem. During that week, the simulations continued, the one the guys had more fun with was the parachuting simulation, where you would be tied to the tallest structure and jump out, hold to the ropes and pretend to be in air, then they would untie the ropes so that they had to fall on their own. It was easy and fun. Even "Precs" tested, they didn't had this kind of simulations.