Shade Of Grey

"Charlie's in the tree line, about three clicks ahead, and we're out of luck on fire support, cos' the radios are dead, we're pretty low on ammo, last night we lost four men. Fire team one's completely gone, Reily, Jones, Austin and Ben. "

"But Sarge, there's something else, and it's given me the spooks, whatever took out fire team one, it sure as Hell wasn't Gooks!!"
"Now Sarge, I've seen some crazy shit, this is my second tour, but you better come and take a look, cos' Sarge, I just ain't sure.".

"What the F..."

"I told ya' Sarge, it just ain't right, they've turned to fucking stone!, now Sarge, I've been here eighteen months, but this is just unknown! See, I've heard that the Russian's are supplying the V.C, maybe some new kind of weapon, but it don't look like that to me."

"Look here Sarge, look at Austin, there's an arrow in his leg, even this is made of stone Sarge, bookoo fucked up, like I said!."

"Now Sarge, if you don't mind, I think we should dee dee mow, take our chances with the Gooks, try and make it past somehow? Maybe we should keep this quiet, and not tell the other guys? We could say they hit a Punji trap, yeah, we could say that's how they died?"

"So what you say there Sarge? Hey Sarge, are you ok?"

He turned and looked into her eyes, and turned a shade of grey.