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  Slowly breathing, the Fireteam remains still and quiet. The enemy troops pass by still conversing, not noticing your footprints left across the dirt path. Waiting until the Vietcong are out of sight and can't be heard, your Fireteam climbs out of cover and continues up the path. As hoped, the path leads directly to the POW camp! Multiple Vietcong guard the main entrance, so you silently maneuver around them and head for the back entrance. A heavy lock is all that protects the back gate from intruders, and that suits you just fine. The Assistant Automatic Rifleman quietly puts down his rifle and pulls out a few thin tools. With a slight of hand, he begins picking the lock until a few clicks are heard. The lock unlatches moments later. "Ready-Team-Fire-Assist" you command as the Fireteam prepares to breach. You count down to three and kick the door open. Instantly, you are greeted with the sight of the U.S. SpecOps Forces tied up in the center of the encampment, and multitudes of confused Vietcong as they look at your Fireteam. The mass of the enemy are in front of you and in the side towers. Decide quickly which group you will focus your firepower on!
  
  > take down guards in towers
  You turn to shoot at the guards on the sides and in the towers, leaving a wide target open for Vietcong bullets from the front. Although you successfully take down a few heads in the towers, hot lead pours into your Fireteam as Communist weapons cut you down. Mission Failed.
  
  You issue the order to continue into the swamp. Not long after, the Rifleman points out footprints in the mud. The prints appear to be the boot treads similar to yours. These may very well be the tracks of the Special Operation Forces. Lance Corporal Fox seems to have an interest in following them. You ask him what he thinks, but the Automatic Rifleman shakes his head in unsureness. He informs you he can't make out the footprints to be allied or enemy, which leaves the decision up to you. You can follow the footprints and hope they lead to your allied POWs, or you can assume it's the enemy's and find a safer route.
  
  > find a safer route
  Avoiding the enemy seems like a safer bet. Continuing on your way, the Rifleman, once again, points out something in the distance. Upon further investigation you discover you have found a cave. Quietly, your Fireteam sneaks up about fifty yards in front of the cave entrance. It isn't long before you realize this cave is far from abandoned, but instead, crawling with Vietcong activity. Above the cave entrance is a low overhang of rocks and boulders...perfect for sealing the entrance with quick use of an M203 round. On the contrary, your purpose has nothing to do with the cave. You should back away and continue on with the mission.
  
  > use your M203 on the overhang
  Loading up your M203, you lay down and take careful aim. With deadly accuracy, the grenade pinpoints the overhang and sends the entrance collapsing. The sound of rocks hammering bones satisfies your belief the cave is well and truly capped off from society forever. But your victory is cut short. A siren in the distance echoes as you realize you have made too much noise with your M203, now compromising your position. Before your Fireteam makes it to cover, two Mi-24 Hind helicopters fly over low and turn around back to your position. Without hesitation, the front-mounted machine guns open fire and strafe your post. After a minute of raining lead, the Hind pilots, satisfied, turn and head back to their origin. Your Fireteam regroups from taking cover...at least, most of them do. By your side are Lance Corporals Fox and Thomas, but Private First Class Rico did not join the regroup. Quickly scanning the area, you see your Rifleman laying across the ground, painting the dirt and mud around him in a lake of blood. As of now, you will be returning home with one less team member. Hatred overcomes you. Blood pays for blood, and you want revenge. On the other hand, you know you must continue with the mission at all costs.
  
  > avenge Private First Class Rico
  Revenge is a creed! You order the Fireteam to open Hell on the nearest Hind. M16 and M249 rounds pour into the blades of the Mi-24's rotor. Sparks and rattles merely shake the flying tank, but the helicopter seems not to be phased by the attack...but the pilot noticed you were still alive. The pilot turns around and heads straight back to your position, but you aren't giving up! Reloading your M203, you take aim and fire off another grenade. The lucky shot scored a hit directly on the cockpit. The front half of the Mi-24 instantaneously bursts into a fiery explosion of glass and shrapnel. The Hind spins out of control as it plunges to the ground. A brilliant cloud of flash and flames signifies the successful destruction of the first helicopter. Then the second Mi-24 turns in and flies to your position for a little revenge of their own. By the looks of it, the pilot is flying in low for a rocket strafe. Lance Corporal Thomas then drops his rifle and pulls out a grappling hook. With a confident voice, the Assistant Automatic Rifleman commands the remaining Fireteam, including yourself, to get down.
  
  > listen and take cover
  Semper Fidelis! You have faith in your fellow Marine's ability. You and Lance Corporal Fox take cover as Lance Corporal Thomas swings the hook around several times before swinging it at the Hind's main machine gun. With inetense skill, the hook latches. He climbs up the rope with monstrous strength as he crawls up to the canopy and pulls out his personal .50 caliber handgun. He hastily puts two rounds in both pilots' heads and punches the remaining canopy glass open. Reaching in the front cockpit, he pulls and tosses out the dead pilot as he climbs in. Lance Corporal Thomas then lands the Hind momentarily. You climb into the back cockpit as Lance Corporal Fox enters the side carrier doors with Rico's body. Lance Corporal Thomas then revs up the engine and takes off again, flying in the same direction from where the helicopters originally came from. Not two minutes later and the POW camp is in sight. You begin hovering around the complex as you determine friend from foe. The POWs appear to all be gathered in the center and Vietcong guards are about fifteen feet away from the POWs and some are stationed in guard towers at every corner of the camp. With pinpoint accuracy, you launch rockets into every guard tower as Lance Corporal Thomas makes good use of the Mi-24's Yak-B .50 caliber machine gun. The confused guards wonder why their own helicopter is shooting at them, but their thoughts are cut short by the slicing motion of 12.7mm shells running through their brains. After all enemy targets are eradicated, Lance Corporal Thomas lands the Hind inside the complex and the Fireteam exits the helicopter. Alpha and Bravo Fireteams come out of their positions in shock as they walk up to your Fireteam, but you are too busy for a conversation. Right now, you are busy untying the U.S. Special Operation Forces. Mission Accomplished.