Location – REDACTED, Ukraine 

Date – September, REDACTED

CODENAME – Silent Sheep – Kyle

It is best if this is recalled how it happened. Kyle landed in an advanced recon camp thirty clicks south of Kiev. There he was supposed to train the local militia on how to move through the woods and field in the near invisibility that he had been taught. He thought it best to be able to tote equipment and guns, by himself, for twenty clicks a day. He hoped that his charges could keep up with him. Perhaps the most that he could hope for is that he could set up a perimeter around the advance outpost. He was given ten men, five pairs with guns and radios and supplies for two weeks. They would be the scouts and picket line for the camp. Kyle’s job was to get them in place and to eliminate any Russians that he came across. 

Kyle’s kit was as follows, one Stealth Recon Scout in .338 Lapua Magnum with fifteen armor piercing rounds, one M45a1 pistol for close work and one K-bar knife for emergency situations. He held enough k rations for three weeks and was usually sick of them after three days. Trouncing up and down the countryside would make any soldier hunger for a hot meal. 

This is a singular story about the last scouts. Kyle was on his way with his last pair of men to drop off at their designated spot. They came upon an oddly quiet part of the forest. Using hand signals, he called for a halt and a sense. The forest was very quiet. There was a hill that rose up in front of their path. Kyle saw that there was an almost invisible sight of smoke rising up from the otherside of the hill. The smell of a campfire and meat cooking. It smelled really good. Kyle sent his two partners around to the sides of the hill. He had an interesting idea for how to deal with these unaware soldiers.

The two Ukrainians went north and south. They had been traversing the better part of the month with Kyle, and though they did not have the experience that he had, they knew enough about to move through the forest silently. They skirted around the hill and saw the clearing that lay before them and the Russian scouts that had camped out in the area. There were six men and a BTR-80. The men had used the armored vehicle to plunge into the depths of the woods and set up camp, like an American family thinking that an RV is camping when they could still microwave food. The Russians were completely unaware of their surroundings and the assured danger that they were in.

Kyle, using a log for a mount, set the SRS rifle parallel to the hill with the campfire on the other side.  When the Ukrainians gave their hand signs that they were in position and ready to fire and be rid of the Russian soldiers, Kyle fired five .338 armor piercing rounds through the hill and into the camp of the Russians. The Ukrainians fired four more times to clean up the rest. 

Kyle moved up to the top of the hill to see what took place. Of his five rounds it looked as though three bullets ripped through the hill and pierced three soldiers and the armored vehicle. The Ukrainian scouts fired four times and put the rest of the Russians out of their misery. Three of the soldiers must have had quite the perplexed look on their faces as the AP ammo came through the hillside. Kyle and his team grabbed what they could of the hot food and left a note on the newly disabled armored vehicle. One of the AP rounds ripped through the engine of the old vehicle. The note read, “Sorry about the vehicle and thanks for the food.”