Looking for Internship/Job in the field of Journalism
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A place where I, a "liberal" college student from Oregon going to school in California can rant about what I consider to be stupid and idiotic.
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I was running from the main base, heading for our objective. I heard the sounds of battle ahead in the distance. My pulse quickened. My initial fears were put to the back of my mind, I was excited and angry; my people were fighting for their lives and I wasn’t even there yet. I ran faster.
Upon reaching the top of a small hill, I dove to the ground, pulling my Morretti SR4 Sniper Rifle to my shoulder. Looking through the scope, I saw two PAC soldiers approaching an EU soldier. The EU soldier hadn’t seen them. Taking careful aim, I fired, taking one of the PAC soldiers down. The other turns to fire at me, but the EU soldier had heard the first PAC die; he stood up and fired his assault rifle, taking the PAC soldier out.
I kept scanning the battlefield for more targets. There were some PAC soldiers in a bunker about six hundred yards away. I couldn’t get a good shot, so I got up and jogged forward taking cover behind a building. Just then an enemy hover tank appeared from behind a hill to the left of me. It fired its main cannon as I ran for the corner. He missed me, but shrapnel hit my shoulder.
I kept running around the building, pulling out my explosives. The tank was preoccupied with an APC as I ran up behind it. I threw the explosives at it, they stuck to it magnetically as I ran back around the building, pulling out the remote detonator. I hit the trigger, taking comfort in the loud explosion. Just to make sure, I crept back to the edge of the building, and took a peek. Smoking wreckage was all that remained.
I turned back in the direction of my original target; there were still PAC soldiers on the top level of the bunker, firing at my EU brothers. I jogged to hundred yards forward, meeting no resistance. I found a nice spot with a good deal of cover, and once again pulled my sniper rifle to my shoulder, looking through the scope. I fired five shots, expanding my clip, killing two PAC soldiers and injuring a third. As I was reloading, an enemy