009: Ed Writes

Eddie's Journal

July 14th, 2000

Cap's been up and down to the castle a few times.  We got ourselves a gig.  The big man wants us to go to Czestochawa.  He wants us to find his brother, or at least the remains.  The deals too good to pass up.  She says we'll get papers and Polish uniforms just for making the trip.  That might be good enough to bluff our way to the front lines.  The big payout is if we can find the man's remains.  He'll swap us an APC for a skeleton and the tags.  Damn generous.

We'll be leaving in a few days.  Alphabit and I are stuck with pulling maintenance on the trucks.  I'll get some leave time tomorrow.

July 15th, 2000

Schiesse, no leave for me.  The ladies of Raciborz will rue this day.

Crappy local politics screwed me over.  Lou went out early, had his fun and came home.  An hour later about a dozen guys showed up led by Sgt. Otto Sauer-breath.  He tells the Cap she's gotta go see his CO.  She's sup[posed to report to this Geisler guy cuz he's in charge of all the 'foreign troops'.  Cap and him had words.  Cap's were longer.  She sent him back to tell his boss that we're taking orders from The Boss and he could take it back up the chain.  Rah us!

Then she canceled the rest of the leaves.

Those boys didn't like taking Nein for an answer.  There's damn all to stop them from picking one of us up after happy hour.  I agree, it sucks.

July 16th, 2000

Mama Cutter's boy lives through another one.  How much luck do I have left?

We left Raciborz at first light.  Made the border of Margraf's lands in under two hours.  We skirted Dobrodzien and and it most of the way around Lubliniec before getting jumped.

I swear it's like the Road Warrior.  This up-armored duece truck and a couple of UAZ's came gunning out of the woods after us.  We're bouncing around like crazy and guns are going off every which way.  Mostly in the damn air b/c I'm driving like CRAZY.  We nailed one of the UAZ's first and trashed the gun mount or the gunner does it matter?  They hit us a few times.  In one end and right through the other.  Nothing but net! Eventually, they pegged our tires.  They came in closer to finish us off.  Leo and Lew in our UAZ were too far out to do anything.  I was getting ready to bail out.  I think they were coming up  to tell us to surrender.  Just a little too close.  Alphabit popped one rifle grenade and the front end of the truck went up in flames.  Cap made sure the crew wouldn't bother us again.  The UAZs decided to try again tomorrow. 

We, that means Alpha and I, spent the afternoon rejiggering tires and stripping down the truck while the rest kept an eye out for the UAZs.  We got out before sunset and found a nice hidey-hole off the track in the woods.  The bit alpha, alphabet, big bit don't like any of them and I are pulling dawn guard since we did the heavy lifting to get the truck moving again.