Spaight moved forward and found were Angel had found the dead soldier and was and had sighed as he checked the body and looked around. Looking for signs of the tracks of the ones who killed the man. He saw the direction that Angel had taken off in and started to follow him, then realized he'd just draw attention to the man.<br/><br/>Instead he returned to find that they had not killed Daniel and sighed.<br/><br/>"We don't have the time, energy or resources to keep him with us." he said too Ghost. "Carrying him means we can't carry food, ammo or gear that we will need. Simply put he is dead weight. When he was able to walk and function, he was an asset we could use. Right now... Even worse than before he's nothing more than a timebomb that is waiting to go off."<br/><br/>"You had to use pain killers to knock him out," he said holding up the now empty vail of painkillers. "Damn it Ghost, what happens when someone get's hurt and they are in pain needing something to get them through it?"<br/><br/>"I'm the ranking non-commissioned officer here," he stated. "You are suppose to be my right hand, and you are suppose to help me do what is best for all of us. Getting us all back to our lines alive. Twice you've done something that has put us in danger. You want command? Do you really want command?"<br/><br/>"Then you have to first realize the fact that doing what's best for everyone comes first," he stated as he pointed at the men and women around them. "They are alive right now, there was three more of them just twelve hours ago. And I have to deal with the fact three people whose skills and abilities were instrumental in keeping the rest of these people alive. One of them was our medic. ANother was Parker's girlfriend. A civilian that was in our care. Right now these people are able to walk on their own power, they are able to carry their own gear and a little extra gear and supplies that the entire group needs to carry to stay functional and alive."<br/><br/>"That man has attacked that young woman for no reason," he said pointing from Daniel to Teyha. "That is just ONE of the many reasons to put him down. We are having to travel light here, we can't waste the time with keeping him around. He's dangerous to us more than he is to the enemy."<br/><br/>"I am really sorry about this happening," He said loooking at Teyha, she could tell he was truely sorry that she had been harmed. "I owe you a debt that I can't pay easily. But I will repay you for this."<br/><br/>"I told everyone to be keeping an eye on him," Spaight said frowning. "Because I was afraid of this. I failed at keeping everyone safe."<br/><br/>"Believe me I hate the idea of putting him down," he said through clentched teeth. "Fuck that. I LOATHE the idea. But I have to weigh everyone elses lives against his well being. We can't get him to a doctor anytime soon. With the way things are out there, it's going to take us almost two weeks to get back to our lines. And if we are carrying him will make it four weeks and increase our chances of being spotted by 200 percent"<br/><br/>"If we don't put him down," he said looking at Ghost. "We can leave him here dopped up and hope that the enemy or insurgents don't kill him when they find him. That they will take him to a damn hospital. Because in all honesty we don't have the resources to keep him with us. Because when he wakes up, he'll be just as fucked up as he was before you knocked him out. He's lost it. That's PTSD on steriods, I still don't see how he got assigned to a combat mission in his state. This just doesn't pop up suddenly like this. It takes a long time for it to get to this level."<br/><br/>"And you want to know what that tells me?" Spaight explained. "That his commanders just kept transfering him form one command to the next. Hoping he'd be someone elses problem. I've seen it done with really crappy soldiers, men or women who had no place in the military."<br/><br/>"I am able to carry the majority of communications gear, but I have to share a good deal of it with everyone else so we can carry it all." Spaight stated. "You're a sniper Ghost... Think of how you have to operate. You only carry your gun, your ammo, your gillie suit, your combat radio and a three day pack. Anything more, and you are slowed down to damn much. Think of what you would have to dump if you carried something extra. You'd have to dump your three-day pack and go without food and limit the time you could spend out in the field. Anything more than that and you'd have to drop your ghillie suit that would leave you out in the open and a target. Anything more than that you leave your radio that leaves you isolated and unable to call for a pick up, or to let the mainbody know of trouble you have discovered. Anymore and you can't carry ammo or your gun. And you become combat ineffective."<br/><br/>"We might not be able to stand up to a platoon at our current strength," he said looking around. "But we have enough firepower to outgun anything we can't outrun. But carrying him... We can't outrun anything. And we'll be sitting ducks. Carrying him we can't even be stealthy."<br/><br/>"If we carry that man with us," he said pointing at Daniel. "Then you have to come up with a way to do without tying up soldiers whose guns are needed to unleash hell if we stumble onto something. And he had better fucking be bound and gagged in a way that he WILL not draw attention to us."<br/><br/>"We HAVE to fly under the radar." he said looking into her eyes. "Stealth is always been a snipers best offensive weapon. Right now stealth is what we need right now. Stealth and speed. That's what we have to keep ourselves alive right now. Out running what we can't outgun. And outgunning what we can't outrun."<br/><br/>"I want us all to get back home alive," Spaight said sighing. "But I have to weigh all of our lives against his. Come up with a way to carry him that won't slow us down, and keep him form being a danger to us or him. And explain to her why he's not getting punished for beating the shit out of her."<br/><br/>((Onica said freeze it here for tonight. She will post first thing in the morning to get the plot back on track. Code:032809))