“All right!” The squad cheered unanimously.
Even Zeke allowed himself to smile as he sat down and prepared to eat his meal of C-Rations.
The company split into platoon-sized elements heading in the same direction, two hundred feet separated each of the four columns.
First Platoon had only moved five hundred feet when coming upon another large, well-used trail. Lt. Ramsey dispatched a squad to investigate while everyone else took a short break.
“Lieutenant, you aren’t going to believe this,” the squad leader informed him.
“What is it, Hawkins?”
“This is the same trail we’ve originally been following, it winds around the base camp and moves back in this direction.”
The L-T pulled out a map from his pants pocket and studied it. “This part of the trail isn’t on the map, either,” he info
