Assorted Flash Fiction Writings #2
Copyright© 2024 by Chaon
Drop Troopers
Writing prompt: Someone mentioned that a horse that was being taught to skydive had returned to the Lord.
Reminds me of the story about wolves being parachuted into a national park to control the deer/elk/moose populations and then someone made a comic about a wolf with a knife parachuting in on a moose.
The opening up of the Terran Marine’s to the various races in the coalition was greeted with a bit of concern but it was nothing to the opening of the Drop Troopers to anyone who qualified.
We all know that the Drop Troopers were seen as the best of the best and were the ones who were tasked with orbital insertion attacks where they were basically kicked out of perfectly working spacecraft to fall into the atmosphere of a planet and then on to the enemy waiting below in disbelief that anyone sane would do such a crazy thing.
The training for the Drop Troopers was just as hard and tough as most other top line units of the Terran armed forces but with a small addition of strapping on gravity harnesses that allowed limited space flight and then were used to arrest their falling from orbit. That little part was the most important of course and was the hardest part for any sentient to handle.
The Drop Troopers were a unique force in the Coalition in that only the Humans had ever dropped combat troops out of atmosphere craft into combat zones and then when spaceflight was used, dropped combat troops out of orbit onto combat zones.
When they were first mentioned to their allies, they were thought to be joking but upon demonstration a sense of insanity and disbelief was felt by all those watching.
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