Journal #1

October 28th, 2989

This is my first time in combat since boot, and things have drastically changed. I was trained to be a grenadier in one of the anti-armour divisions, but a shortage of soldiers has had me reallocated to one of the airborne armoured divisions.

So far, it's looking like hell. I've had a brief lesson on how to react in the event of an emergency drop, and now my tank is in a plane some hundred feet above the ground. We're supposed to land near a `Brandy outpost, and as I write this, sniper teams on the ground are supposed to be clearing the AA crews. The worst scenario we're looking at is a hot drop just under MACH 1, at fifty feet, during a crash. I just hope I survive.

Private Jacob Allen,
Jekotian 83rd Airborne Armoured Division