#5 Disaster

As the flames and smoke rose around me, I could hear the explosives getting louder and growing closer. As I look down at my rife and tattered uniform, I fear the end is near. My battle buddy Brian and I sparated from each other. I haven't see him in seventy-three minuetes. Until my first deployment I didn't know an entire town could be destroyed with that time peried, but now it's second nature. We have already lost tweleve men out of our unit in the last two months. These two months have been nothing but hell. I don't know how I've survived. Brian has been my best friend all my life, we wnt to school together, enlisted at eighteen and fought next to each other these last four years. Hearing the last bomb go off half a mile from me, brought me back to reality. I needed to get to the dunes where out leitenant ordered to meet after the ambush. The town is destroyed, hundreds of Isrialights dead and nothing but smoke and bullets in the air. I can't leave without Brian, I won't leave my best friend behind. As the smake starts to clear, I can see a body....It's Brain! He's been hit! I make it to him and see then blood on his hip, he's a alive and opens his eyes and just barley recongnizes me. I need to get him to the dunes. I lift him over my shoulders and start heading to the dunes away from the chose. God he's heavy. We are halfway there when I hear another explosion.