Standing in a room full of SF and SEALS was pretty cool, especially for a young 23 yo Sergeant who had almost zero exposure to those units. I was the 'owner' of the fertilizer plant so a couple of days later had to fly to Ft. I dove out a window and was shooting at the SEALS and Army SF on the ground not realizing a sniper was performing overwatch from the ridge.Ī SEAL medic grabbed me and went through the motions of treating the wound but I bled out. Somebody threw a smoke grenade into my building which had hundreds of bags of sawdust (emulating a fertilizer factory smuggling chemical weapons) so the building went up in flames fast. They didn't see us move in earlier that night so attacked the far side of the village giving us clear shots to take a few out. Very unhappy campers.Ī SEAL sniper shot me in the neck from atop a high ridge line while other members of his team were attacking the village we were defending. They didn't have a spare driver, either, so the LT had to ride with a squad. Instead, one of the platoon's 'cruits shot his ass as he came back in from taking a shit the night before the big force-on-force battle. I gave his driver that card because I figured he'd only use the card if the track got taken down. Your driver is gonna have to be MEDEVAC'd back to the hospital, and you guys have got 30 minutes to make it happen before he's DOA for the battle.'.Ĭue the profanity. That 'friendly fire' thing? One single shot from an M16 supposedly tore off all four limbs, and penetrated his chest and abdomen.' 'Yeah, player unit has a problem with that.' 'OK, I'll tell them.' Ironic thing? The guy who I gave that card to was a victim of a blue-on-blue, where his buddy accidentally shot him with a single blank from an M16. Per the card, he was basically a trunk with four bloody stumps left, and some serious thoracic/abdominal injuries to accompany it. In any event, this casualty card had multiple injuries on it, as though the victim had been blown up by something. Only lasted one rotation, and they dropped the idea like a hot potato because it was eating up too much time. I think the worst injury I ever saw on a MILES casualty card came on one of batches of test cards they did up at the NTC-The medics were agitating for more fidelity to real-world injuries, and they wanted better 'play' for the medical field, so they did up some new cards to enable all that. Do that, and you're probably going to spend a day or so strapped to a backboard at his behest, 'cos you can do that shit when you're the O/C. He puts them into these little itty-bitty manila envelopes, and seals them, after writing your name on the card so you can't trade the damn things on him. They're issued out and tracked by your unit's Observer/Controller, when it's done right.

Miles casualty cards deck 5 of 5