believe that someone is firing at in the sandstorm. Our commander stops the truck and tells us to take our positions outside and take the enemy out. Like a mouse, we quickly grab our guns and get ready to leave the vehicle. Our commander gives one of us to go out when he thinks it is clear. I am in second in last to get out. As the person in front me goes out, it is my turn and I am give the go sign. I can hear the commander saying, “Go, go, go.” His lips are jumping all over the place as he says this. As I stand there I daze off and start thinking about my family, but quickly Ryan grabs my shoulders and shakes me and says “ Travis, man snap out of it.” Than quickly I jump of the truck. As I jump of the truck my foot gets stuck in a rail and I go head first into the sand. The fall made my heavy helmet to flying off my head. The gun falls away from and so do the ammunitions. My face hits the sand and I realized that the sand is kind of warm and feels good on my face. The grains of sand get stuck to my face as I start to sweat. When I try to rub it off, my face starts to feel like as if I have taken a sand paper and I am sanding it. Then suddenly I realize that I am in a war and that I don’t want to die. Like a rabbit, I get up really fast and I go and grab my helmet and tie it to my head. Quickly, I look to see where my gun is and all I see and some part of the gun. Looks like the sand have covered it and I go into a frown. I go and grab it hastily along with my ammunitions. Suddenly, I start to see little fireflies coming toward me and I finely realized that those were bullets coming toward me. I quickly ducked and hear a loud voice from the

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