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Deep Seal
Posey Parks
1
Aiden
Many nights I hid in the shadows waiting to trample our enemies. Peering through a sniper rifle, I marched forward. Our unit moved as one toward the tan brick structure. I held my weapon tight, peering through the sniper scope. A bullet zipped past my ear penetrating Simmons armor. He fell to the ground clutching his throat. I dragged his body to the side of the house.
“Don’t you die on me, man.” I scanned the perimeter. “Carter, stay with Simmons. Deeds and Tula, cover the rear. Jackson stay close.”
“Yes, sir.”
I was the youngest commander to lead a team of Navy SEALs Special Operatives in the war against terror. My marksmanship saved the lives of my men many times. I stared at the three men holding position inside the doorway through the night vision goggles.
Pip, pip, pip.
The bullets flew through the air. The men toppled over.
“We’re on the move.”
My men followed closely as we crept inside. I glanced at the three dead men and continued to the end of a wall. I held up my fist and my men halted. They waited for their next order. I motioned two fingers to the right. Jackson ran across the open walkway to the wall on the other side.
“Cover me,” I ordered.
My men nodded, holding position, peering through their sniper scopes. I ran through the corridor, rifle held high picking off one enemy after the other.
“Move in.”
“Copy that,” stated Deeds.
On the helicopter ride back to base, Admiral Cutner said our mission was a success. We apprehended the target. The mission was anything but successful. I lost a close friend in battle. Simmons didn’t make it. He left behind a wife and baby boy. Not a day goes by I don’t feel like I let his family down.
I never knew my father. My mother lost custody of me when I was one years old. She couldn’t sustain a stable home for a child because she abused drugs. After bouncing around in the foster system for four years I was adopted by Barry and Mary-Anne Wilder. Their son Valen was a year older than me. A smile curled my lips at the memory as I sat in my dental office staring out the window into the distance. They were good to me even if I wasn’t the best son. The hole in my heart couldn’t ever be filled. No matter how hard they tried to give me everything… it wasn’t enough. Why couldn’t my mother get clean and take care of her child?
I uncovered information about my birth mother once I became a Navy SEAL. My mother ran away from home at age sixteen. She gave birth to me a year later. Trying to find my father was hard. I needed to put my boots to the pavement and walk around the neighborhood where my mother lived. I’ve known for three years who my mother’s parents were, but I hadn’t tried to contact them. I dropped my face in my hands. Not sure why I didn’t contact my grandparents. They probably didn’t know I existed.
Men who were built like Sailors and thought like Sailors should be Sailors. That’s the line Valen, and I fell for when we were approached by a Navy recruiter in high school. After Valen graduated, he enlisted in the Navy. I enlisted a year after him. Barry and Mary-Anne didn’t understand why their sons needed to serve their country.
I told our parents, Valen and I wanted to train to become the best of the best, and serve our country.
The first three years in the Navy weren’t bad. Darkness reared its ugly head in the fourth year. I trained to become a Navy SEAL Special Operative. I guess it wasn’t all bad. I became one of the best SEALs. I could sneak and attack my target before they knew what hit them.
