The Little Prince in the Ossuary

00076 <– #After the Rain –>

#After the rain, Fort Roberts (6)

Ten kilometers from Fort Roberts, down the Salinas River, a small village called Bradley was located. Today, Gyeo-ul’s mission was to capture it. If the mission were a success, engineers and refugee workers would soon be deployed to this village to begin the base’s expansion.

Gyeo-ul watched as troops approached the village entrance. Most of them were volunteers from the Triad, and an additional squad and driver soldiers had been added to Able Company for management and support. The latter’s supervisor was Sergeant Arturo “Al” Rivera.

In other words, no one other than Gyeo-ul was in charge of the operation. No matter how trivial the operation was, the change in the attitude of the U.S. military signaled by their leaving the command of the operation to a boy officer was very impressive. Even if it was mainly volunteers, the size of the troop was equivalent to one company. In fact, Gyeo-ul was even able to play the role of a temporary company commander.

The condition of the promotion, which had been suspended at the time of receiving the Silver Star Medal, was a formal completion of officer education. Therefore it could be assumed that they recognized Gyeo-ul’s ability to command even though he had not completed his education. Still, it was necessary to go through a formal curriculum for the future.

‘There may be some recommended progress in the near future.’

The control AI was recommending certain types of progress in case of a situational operation. This one was called recommended progress. It was okay to refuse, but there was nothing good about doing so.

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