We Conquer Power and Mountains

Heh. I suppose the 2-87 motto is a fitting title for this post...

So late last night (zero dark stupid) we SP'ed to provide overwatch on Route Death. Okay, so that's not really the name, but last time we went there we found nine IEDs, so yeah. Anyway, things start out clusterfucked as normal as we were taxied in for a dismount with target grids being off and terrain being way too rough for travel.

Almost to our "target," there is a loud bang and the entire MRAP seems to jump and I faceplant into the battery charger, splitting my lip all to hell. I shake the clouds away and ask "was that an IED?" I didn't hear an explosion, but it sure as hell felt like we got blown up.

Turns out our truck actually fell into a drop off! WTF!? It was pretty much a miracle we didn't roll...

So we reach what we thought was our drop off point and yet another frago. Stay put. So we hunker down in the trucks and try to sleep for a few hours. No one dares step outside in the dark, since they'd just found AP mines in the area.

As dawn approaches, we get the march order and start up the mountain just a few dozen meters from our drop off point. "This isn't so bad," I think to myself.

We reach the top, and wait out first light, only to realize that we were in the wrong spot. We'd climbed the wrong mountain. Worse yet, our target was three clicks across a valley! So I pick up my 240 and start walking again...

The valley really wasn't bad. Neither was the climb up the next mountain. What sucked was reaching the top and once again being told, sorry, wrong mountain. We had to climb down and walk to another that was a click or so away.

And this one was... steep. Damn my shit got heavy. Just kept pushing, and eventually we made it to our overwatch position. Where we sat. For about 14 hours. And watched RCP clear Route Death... and find nothing? Okay, that was the first time that ever happened...

So to make a long and boring story not so long but still boring, we did a bunch of bullshot for nothing. Wasn't all that abnormal...