Trevinboy
03-20-18, 12:24 PM
First of all, greetings and thank you all for your very valued service!! I am a friend of the honorable USMC, and I am writing a book in which I feature the fictitious U.S. MARINE LIGHT HELICOPTER ATTACK SQUADRON HMLA-242; CODE NAME: DRAGONFIRE. I would like to know if you all can help me with the call signs, the lingo and the tone of conversation. This small segment is taken from the book I am writing, but I am having trouble coming up with correct lingo and call signs. The following is during wartime, it is the commencement of a fictitious land action after your comrades from the Air Force and Navy have completed an air campaign into Iran:
SOUTHERN IRAN
NEAR THE BAMPUR VALLEY
U.S. MARINE LIGHT HELICOPTER ATTACK SQUADRON HMLA-242; CODE NAME: DRAGONFIRE
PRESENT DAY
“Puzzle Palace, this is Gunslinger leader, come in, over.”
“We copy, Gunslinger leader. Go ahead, over.”
“Be advised, I have visual contact with a formation of approximately forty, repeat Four-Zero mobile artillery units and three dozen or so enemy tanks. Please confirm the OPFOR, over.”
“Gunslinger leader, we copy forty enemy M.A.s and approximately three dozen tanks, over.”
“That’s a good copy, over.”
[10 second radio silence]
“Gunslinger leader, please be advised, we have confirmation. I repeat, that is the OPFOR. What’s your position, over?”
“Twenty-five klicks Southwest of M-Town (Mohammabad), just as you indicated. Request weapons free, over.”
“Stand by, gunslinger leader.”
“Roger that, Puzzle Palace.”
[30 second radio silence]
“Gunslinger leader, your request is confirmed by TOC, you are weapons free, repeat, you are cleared to engage them; take them all out, over.”
“Roger that, Puzzle Palace, over. Dash Two, come in, over.”
“Go ahead, Dash One this is Dash Two, over.”
“Just as we rehearsed, take your designated half of the squadron and flank the enemy’s left; I’ll flank them from the right. After I radio in the fire mission for extra support, we'll take out whatever remains of the enemy. I want radio silence until then, do you copy that, over.
“Loud and clear, Dash one. About time we got our feet wet, sir.”
“Easy now, Oli. Remember everything that we have gone over. This is the real thing. Keep your head on your shoulders and keep it cool, oorah?"
“Oorah, dash one," said an overzealous 1st Lieutenant, Olivia Jenkins....
Any input or information will be immensely appreciated, on top of your service, of course. Oorah!
SOUTHERN IRAN
NEAR THE BAMPUR VALLEY
U.S. MARINE LIGHT HELICOPTER ATTACK SQUADRON HMLA-242; CODE NAME: DRAGONFIRE
PRESENT DAY
“Puzzle Palace, this is Gunslinger leader, come in, over.”
“We copy, Gunslinger leader. Go ahead, over.”
“Be advised, I have visual contact with a formation of approximately forty, repeat Four-Zero mobile artillery units and three dozen or so enemy tanks. Please confirm the OPFOR, over.”
“Gunslinger leader, we copy forty enemy M.A.s and approximately three dozen tanks, over.”
“That’s a good copy, over.”
[10 second radio silence]
“Gunslinger leader, please be advised, we have confirmation. I repeat, that is the OPFOR. What’s your position, over?”
“Twenty-five klicks Southwest of M-Town (Mohammabad), just as you indicated. Request weapons free, over.”
“Stand by, gunslinger leader.”
“Roger that, Puzzle Palace.”
[30 second radio silence]
“Gunslinger leader, your request is confirmed by TOC, you are weapons free, repeat, you are cleared to engage them; take them all out, over.”
“Roger that, Puzzle Palace, over. Dash Two, come in, over.”
“Go ahead, Dash One this is Dash Two, over.”
“Just as we rehearsed, take your designated half of the squadron and flank the enemy’s left; I’ll flank them from the right. After I radio in the fire mission for extra support, we'll take out whatever remains of the enemy. I want radio silence until then, do you copy that, over.
“Loud and clear, Dash one. About time we got our feet wet, sir.”
“Easy now, Oli. Remember everything that we have gone over. This is the real thing. Keep your head on your shoulders and keep it cool, oorah?"
“Oorah, dash one," said an overzealous 1st Lieutenant, Olivia Jenkins....
Any input or information will be immensely appreciated, on top of your service, of course. Oorah!