Date: 3-9-2552

We were first informed of our new objective somewhere around 5:00 AM. Not the happiest thing to hear that your gonna drop out of the sky in little pods, but it's our job. We grabbed our guns and headed into the pods. Of course, I was close quarters and got stuck with a silenced SMG. So when we where ready, we strapped in and got ready for the ride. We hit alot of turbulance, and it nearly threw me off target, but I managed. We got fired on by those crappy Covenant anti-aircraft turrets, but luckly nothing hit us. We just hope we didn't get the Covenant's attention more than we needed to. We all hit the ground right in target; in the middle of a clearing. Our mission was to flank, capture, and hold a civilian hotel. You might be thinking "so?" Well, people where being held hostage in there. Guess the Covenant didn't know what to do with them. So here we are, advancing on this city we had never heard of. We came in threw the north-east side, entering a barren war-torn neighborhood. We continued, checking every house to make sure no one was hiding or anything. But the part that sucked though was that there was at least twenty houses in that neighborhood so it took us about two hours. But when we got to the hotel, we where in for a big surprise. There where Covenant turrets and ghost all over the place, so this wasn't going to be easy. A-wing ordered Gut, the now sniper, to take out the turrets. He did a pretty good job at it because afterwards, the others where wondering what the heck was going on. So A-wing ordered him back and we clear out the parking lot. That was fairly easy, but the real trouble was when we got inside. We soon discoverd that the people where locked inside the rooms with the halls flooded with Covenant. We cleared hall after hall, informing every room that we would get them when it's time. When the hotel was finally wiped out of the Covenant forces, we told the civilians to follow us in groups of fifteen. There had to be at least sixty of them, but we managed. We snuck around back to the clearing, and threw a red smoke grenade to tell the pelicans to pick us up. It was a long day, and I'm glad the corp is giving us a break. For a day.