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|Location: Camp Nazareth, a U.S. Armed Forces/Israeli Defense Forces military base containing American and Israeli air and ground forces 22 miles west of Jerusalem, Israel.

|Date of hostilities/combat operations: August 8, 2008.

|Time: 1501 hours Israeli local time.

|Situation/crisis: While a Lebanese diplomatic official was in the middle of attending a peace summit between national government officials of Israel and Lebanon in trying to resolve recent small-scale naval skirmishes that have taken place in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel involving Lebanese military vessels who have repeatedly attempted to blockade and harrass Israeli fishing vessels and other civil watercraft attemping to return to their own shores, a sapper attack was launched against Camp Nazareth by insurgents of the Iran-backed terrorist organization known as Hezbollah who infiltrated Israel from the north during the previous night.
The Hezbollah insurgents are heavily armed and entirely hostile, having unknown varieties of Iranian, Eastern European, and Soviet weaponry at their disposal, though it is also feared that they may be using unknown types and quantities of captured American and NATO equipment as well. They have begun an all-out suicide siege of Camp Nazareth to attempt to breach the gates and enter the base, capturing and destroying as much of our equipment and supplies as possible, as well as inflicting as many casualties on our forces as possible. The camp is completely surrounded and supply lines have been cut. Israeli forces have suffered heavy casualties in the fighting at the camp's outer defensive lines where several machine gun bunkers and wire entanglements have already been breached by the enemy, forcing American and Israeli forces to fall back inside the camp and protect the gates to prevent entry into the camp itself. Friendly forces won't be able to hold out much longer...

|Briefing: The 1st Platoon of our Marine company is already on the base, and I have assumed command of them. We're getting hit hard right now, but we'll be just fine as long as the rest of our company breaks through the encroaching enemy lines and joins in to kick some towel-head a**. Our objective is to reinforce the outer parameter and either stop or push back the encroachment from hostiles until further reinforcements can arrive on camp to relieve us and break the siege. We've got to protect our Israeli buddies!

(Nobody appears interested in my battle... sad )

Thank you for showing up, Lieutenant! Please! Help me do some shooting! Here's a weapon! *Tosses you an M-16A2. I begin popping off rounds from my M-203 grenade launcher as a half-dozen more sappers charge towards the front gate.* Jesus, they just keep coming...!

*Ducks down behind a pile of sandbags as the grenade explodes. Sets a couple of Claymore mines at the front gate, then sprints into a guard shack nearby, dragging out a dead Marine who has been shot in the head while he was manning the machine gun nest.* MAN DOWN! WE GOT A KIA! scream *Mans the M-60 machine gun in the guard shack and begins raking the approaching terrorists with a long steady stream of tracers, killing a dozen or so in several bursts of fire.*

*Runs down the stairs and opens fire from a window* OK, die you bast*rds

(You do realize that the 60 is no longer used right? It was replaced by the M240B...)

(Ya, I've known for awhile. Thought yall knew. I was a little let down by that, but it's for the better right? XD Anyway, like I said, the M240B has replaced the M60, sadly enough.)

come on*