A Story of One Very Brave Marine Sniper... Sergeant S., Memo

    Sergeant Memo and his spotter, Pasciuti, were both helping out with back-clearing opperations. Which is simply when the main force of marines pusshes forward, a group covers their rear so no insurgents could attack at their rear flank. Memo, Pasciuti, and a small security force went into the city of Fallujah for a regular back-clearing mission. Memo had found two buildings that looked like they would be could to use for sniping off of. A part of the security force went into one house, while Memo and a few others went over to the other to clear them. Before opening the door and going inside Memo noticed something strange and out of place. The door's glass was broken in and scattered inside the building in front of the door. Memo immediatly notticed it to be an early-detection system. He radioed to Higher asking if there were any other units in the area. About the time that he got the negative answer, yelling and AK gunfire broke out from the building the other marines were sent to clear. Memo immediatly rushed over to assist. As he cautiously entered the doorway to the second building he heard something clink against the wall and roll to his feet. He recognized it immediatly as a grenade. He tried to run before it exploded but bumped into another marine and was only able to turn to his side as the grenade exploded sending shrapnel into his right side. He realised that marines were still trapped inside and ignored any pain as he rushed back inside to help the trapped marines. Others rushed in to help pull out the injured marines while Memo frantically fired up the stairs toward the second floor, where the insurgents were. Momentarily the insurgents dissappeared from Memo's view as the marines evacuated the injured. The insurgents soon returned into view with a direct shot toward the door through the stairwell and hallway, trapping Memo and one other marine inside the building and keeping other marines from reentering. The other marine thrwe a grenade up the stairwell, however before it detonated the insurgents were able to throw it back towrds the helpless marines. it landed in front of Memo when it detonated. The shrapnel hit him in the face and arms, as he tried to cover his face. The other injured marine threw a second grenade up the stairs actually killing one gunman and surprised Memo when he made a frantic run for the door in this second, leaving Memo by himself with an unknown amount of enemy insurgents at the top of the stairs. The insurgents began to try to kill Memo by coming down the stairs, but here Memo had the upperhand, because of the stairwell, Memo was able to see the enemy's feet before the nemy ever saw him. Memo unholstered his M9 pistol. The second insurgent to walk down the stair was shot in the ankle causing him to fall down the stairs where Memo shot them. After only a few kills this way one of the insurgents caught him off gaurd and crouched to Memo's level and sprayed with his AK. Memo quickly turned and unloaded into the man. Memo felt the pain of the man's bullets hitting him hard in the chest, but thankfully, he was wearing his body armor that stopped the bullets. After a few more kills this way, Memo remembered the claymore in his bag. A claymore in a shaped and directional charge that is used as a security element that can either be detonated by the use of a trip wire or  though the use of a remote. Memo reholstered his pistol and ran out into the hallway as he through the charge with his left and detonated it with his right with the remote. He blew out part of the ceiling, and stairs which collapsed on top of Memo before he could run to the door. He was knocked unconscious, but came to quickly. He unburried himself and ran to the very nearest Humvee. When he went back he saw that reinforcements had not arrived yet and that the 50 caliber machine gun on top of the seven-ton wasn't being manned. He got into the turret and was able to lay down two progressed streams of fire in to the house he had just exited until the gun jammed. When it jammed he grabbed a marines M16 assault rifle and unloaded five full magazines into the house.  As he was fighting, the reinforcements arrived. The injured were evacuated and Memo was told to go as well, but refused the orders. Instead he grabbed another M16 and loaded his pockets with grenades and told the nearest marine to follow his lead. Memo ran over to the the other house he had originally seen the early-detection rig at. Insurgents were spotted running through the courtyard that was inbetween the houses  towards the walls. The two marines threw grenades at them but gave up their position and had grenades being thrown back at them. Moments later the marines could hear a tank coming their way. The tank pulled into the driveway towards the insurgent filled house and unloaded on the two houses. And then, just a few moments later, all the marines were ordered to evacuate, because fighter jets were inbound to bomb the houses and surrounding houses. Once safely at base Memo learned that there were 18 bodies found inside the house he was trapped in. He had recieved a stress fracture to his right hip from the cieling landing on him, a class 3 concussion, and broken sternum from the three AK bullets that were found lodged in his chest plate. He had 18 pieces of shrapnel removed from his leg, 6 from his right arm, and four from his face. This just goes to show the true valor and bravery that the marine sniper has.