User:Phalanx Actual/OPERATION: Warhead

OPERATION: Warhead, or less formally Battle of Callighan's Field was a CMA Counter-Insurgency Operation on Erudito IV on November 25 2608, in the Beta Eridani system. The purpose of the operation was to put an end to the Blackwater Freedom Front, an infamous insurgent group known for executing politically vulnerable groups such as native children, women and adolecents. The headquarters of the Blackwater insurgents was found by a team of UNSC Snipers, who were captured, and possibly executed before extraction.

V/ORION approved of sending an ORION Team to assist CMA Soldiers in eliminating rebel leaders. The CMA formed a large fireteam for the operation known as Augmented Task Force One, callsign ATF1. ATF1 consisted of 13 CMA Counter-insurgency specialists, many of which had experience in dismantling bands of insurgents, and 7 V/ORION Supersoldiers (Generation: FOXTROT). ATF1 was to drop in via blackwing parachutes over the mountainous area on November 21, 2552, though the actual drop was delayed until the next day.

0215 Hours: ATF CMA Team had reached the perimeter.

0230 Hours: ATF V/ORION Team UH-144/S had reached the area.

0248 Hours: ATF CMA had infiltrated the caves.

0255 Hours: ATF CMA locates UNSC Snipers held hostage

0300 Hours: ATF V/ORION eliminates several Blackwater Patrols in the area

0315 Hours: ATF V/ORION begins neutralization of Blackwater RPG emplacements

0330 Hours: ATF CMA is located by blackwater patrols on the interior of the base

0333 Hours: ATF V/ORION eliminates 1/13 RPG emplacements

0335 Hours: ATF CMA is separated, 2 Blackwater insurgents are seen dragging the bodies of UNSC Hostages

0340 Hours: ATF V/ORION eliminates 5/13 RPG emplacements

0350 Hours: ATF V/ORION is detected by survivors of RPG emplacement 02

0400 Hours: Base is at full alert, Blackwater insurgents are mobilized

0415 Hours: ATF CMA + V/ORION engage Blackwater insurgents, 1 high value target is wounded.

0430 Hours: ATF is outnumbered, 2 V/ORION Operators are seen killed by RPG fire

0450 Hours: ATF all rounds are expended, extraction is called in

0500 Hours: ATF CMA Task Force is pushed down the mountain, cornered and executed one by one

0530 Hours: UAV Cameras show V/ORION engaging insurgents in hand-to-hand combat

0600 Hours: UAV Cameras show 4 V/ORION's being captured, quickly tortured and killed

0630 Hours: Extraction arrives delayed due to RPG Fire

0640 Hours: Surviving V/ORION are left without extraction if RPG's are not eliminated

0700 Hours: 3 Heavily wounded V/ORION Supersoldiers arrive at UNSC Pelican E999

0700 Hours: Hidden RPG's open fire on Pelican E999, 2 V/ORION are flung out of the pelican.

0701 Hours: UNSC Pelican is shot down at the base of the mountain, no survivors

0702-37 Hours: 2 surviving V/ORION are seen with numerous broken bones, continuing to engage with M6

0702-37 Hours: sidearms and 2 grenades for 30 minutes. V/ORION Operators expend all rounds, insurgents

0702-37 Hours: are seen moving closer to the wounded V/ORION Operators

0739 Hours: Thermal shows insurgents dragging SGT. Alex Callighan's and SGT. Cody Mikhail's bodies

0739 Hours: into the rebel HQ.

1000 Hours: UNSC Artillery Teams open fire on rebel HQ, all high value targets were found to be evacuated

1200 Hours: UNSC Scouts search the area, 2 V/ORION helmets are recovered.

1230 Hours: HIGHCOM declares Warhead to be a failure.