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    2-4 Cavalry: Rolling Thunder
    2-4 Cavalry: Rolling Thunder
    2-4 Cavalry: Rolling Thunder
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    2-4 Cavalry: Rolling Thunder

    By Eric Johnson

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    After a mis-calculation on an orbital drop, two Leopards from the Troop fight their way back to friendly lines. Of course it was a mixup but the Freelanders didn't think so when they ambushed the tanks and now they're on the run through the mountains to survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric Johnson
    Release dateJun 13, 2012
    ISBN9781476402642
    2-4 Cavalry: Rolling Thunder
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    Eric Johnson

    Eric Johnson is a veteran who served in the US Army. He currently lives in Baltimore and spends his time to write stories based on his experiences as well as using current events to focus on counter-insurgency as well as other related topics. He also writes limited erotica and steampunk short stories on occasion.

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      2-4 Cavalry - Eric Johnson

      Alpha Troop 2/4 Cavalry: Rolling Thunder

      By

      Eric Johnson

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      Eric Johnson on Smashwords

      Alpha Troop 2/4 Cavalry: Rolling Thunder

      Copyright © 2012 by Eric Johnson

      Thank you for downloading this eBook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form, with the exception of quotes used in reviews.

      Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      One of my inspirational stories for my series was Rolling Hot and Cav by both David Drake and James Cobb, respectively. Both stories provide insight into the time honored tradition of advanced weaponry but still the human virtue of survival. This story happens after Operation Morning Glory

      Editing done by Kevin Rigsby: krigsby19@gmail.com

      Contents

      May 2739: 1234 local hours

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      May 2739

      1234 local hours

      Even in the days of satellite reconnaissance, what a soldier needed to do was see the world around him or her in order to understand the world around him or her. As Captain Juniper scanned to the north and northwest from her hatch, this was what she was doing. Only this time she was a scant 1,200 kilometers south of where she needed to be and that wasn’t her only problem right now. As she looked she didn’t see anything else moving within the forests of the Free Land of Sulsi anyway. The Drop Control Officer (DCO) for this assignment had truly fucked up. Baines had, like a good driver, followed the ‘funnel’ down to where it ended up in enemy territory, not friendly territory as they were supposed to. Maybe the Dumbass Coordinator Overhead was too busy trying to earn brownie points and not making sure the LZ coordinates were correct. They weren’t and they were dropped plum into ‘Injun territory’, at least that’s what one of the Kommandos in her vehicle said, before he took a hyper-velocity round in the throat. He spilled his blood in the compartment an hour ago after taking potshots from a small patrol while evacing the area. The sky was cloudy and the rain had passed an hour ago while they were skulking their way to this point. Looking up briefly, the sky showed the clouds were there but nothing on the horizon suggested any more rain. Of course they didn’t have the latest feed on the weather. Just stop by a Freelander base and just ask she thought with a smile. That would go over real good.

      They weren’t very accurate but they put enough projectiles in the air to gut one of the survivors of the Hurricane that followed behind the two Leopards that were in the wrong spot. After a quick scoop of the three survivors, she had to throw them in her tank they got out of there leaving the dead behind. Intel prior to drop stated that Freelanders didn’t have any recon satellites but neither did The Sulsi Federation, the ‘good guys’ for this hiccup. Then again the ship Captain was also doing a supply run for Mashara, and felt it would be easier to do an orbital drop of TF 414 rather than land on the planet. Good move asshole she thought as she checked the digital display for the time, 1234 local hours.

      It was simple, go to the Independent Planets and train the ESU supportive government on special warfare tactics. So, she along with TF 414 deployed to the planet of Sulsi, with two main continents that were two distinct ‘countries’ with a spaceport on each side of the equator, in this case the southern one only 500 kilometers due south from her position. The two nations were the Sulsi Federation and the Free Land of Sulsi with each side debating just how ‘free’ they were and backed it up with sizeable firepower and the politics to go along with it. They weren’t here to start a war, they were here to train and extend the ESU influence in the ‘southern’ portion of the Independent Planets area. What the goal was to do, to her, seemed like it was just another excuse to get her away from Mashara or Kush. Mashara they survived, the TDZ they survived but more work in the ‘south’ would probably give her more experience in what the Kommando did. Since neither government had anti-grav tanks, the six Leopards were the most

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