Jake

This is like a jungle-less wilderness terrain.

The canopy is so thick, the ambient light from the moon and everything can't get through.

So our night vision goggles work still, but

It's not a good picture.

You can just see general shapes and outlines, a slow movement through the woods toward this village.

No, you have a pretty tight tunnel of vision and you just got to scan back and forth.

It only covers one eye, so you can kind of

Keep your other eye exposed to what's real close to you, but it's dark.

You can't see much at all.

So our platoon's mission is a couple hours in, we're going to get to like a mortar position that the Sylvanian has set up.

A small group of us, my squad, plus a couple of their teams.

So maybe 15 guys are going to go and attack this mortar position because we know once we attack it, they're going to radio back to the village like, hey, we're getting attacked.

It's all timing based and we want them to think, oh, there's a small group of us, even though there's a larger element.

So we're going to split off, attack this mortar position, and then meet back up on the other side of it with the rest of the platoon and continue to the village where everybody else is going to meet at dawn.

So we get to this break off point.

My squad goes on the Bravo teams.

My team's the back half of the formation and we're just following in.

We get to it.

It goes pretty smoothly.

We take the little mortar position without any hassle as we expected.