Message to Cor

I can't believe that was just a training exercise. I mean, I know it was, but still it felt so real. Do the instructors even care about us, sending us in to a live-fire combat exercise against each other? The MJOLNIR armor is pretty amazing and all, but it still seems reckless. Ah well, it was fun in a scare the ever loving shit out of you way, but I wish that my teammates would have listened to my strategy. You know, protect our flag first, then go get theirs after they're eliminated. But instead they acted like 12 year olds playing a video game, running straight at our opponents shooting wildly. I'm sure they failed both the tactical test and the efficiency test. At least our test was on base, in the Pit. I heard other groups had to go fight it out in recreations of covie controlled places. Although it was difficult shooting the other team instead of those damn Covie targets, I figured it out pretty quick. I know, you wanna hear about the exercise, right?
Well, first they tell us that we get a live fire test, which got us all excited, spending all that time firing blanks and shit. Then they tell us that the bullets are gonna be real coming back too. A couple of us got nervous at that, but then our XO told us to shut up and be SPARTANS. Did it with some weird flair he said came from an old vid disk. Anyway, we showed up at the pit, and got told it was an exercise in priority target acquisition and defense of resources. Really, we were playing capture the flag, just with real bullets and live grenades. They told us that the suits would protect us, and if we got critical the suits would somehow extract us from the exercise. I mean, how do they do that? Does the suit get up on its own and walk out or something? Nah, I don't know how it happens, I just know that when you come to, if that exercise ain't over, you're right back in it. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true! Anyway, but asshole teammates go running off God-knows-where, while I try yelling to them to watch the flag. Of course none of them come back, and I start hearing the first shots, and then explosions. I'll admit it, it was kinda cool, but I was trying to watch that flag still, right? So I'm sitting there, watching the flag, when all of a sudden across the comms comes this voice saying "enemy flag taken" or something like that, and I get kinda excited. Then, I hear "enemy flag dropped" and not even five seconds later my one teammate goes running back off into the pit from somewhere that I didn't see. Before I know it, all of them have gone past me a couple times, while I haven't seen even a flash of enemy color.
You know that couldn't last, as all of a sudden I see a flash of red, up on a floor above me. I tossed a grenade up there, just to spook them, and got three sent back at me. I knew I was in trouble, but my teammates just kept running in a different direction, while I was fighting three on one to keep that blue flag from getting moved. I did a good job, too. Knocked two of them down, even got one of them a second time, but eventually they got me in a corner and I got taken down. I open my eyes back up, and there I am, next to the flag again, before I hear a shotgun cock next to my ear. Guess one of them grabbed that and the active camouflage before running over to the flag. Caught me just coming around, and took me right back out. By the time I was back up, he was half way across the map, with suppression fire keeping me from pursuit. By the time my teammates knew what was happening, that damn voice was telling us that they had captured our flag. I looked back, to see a new flag in the old one's spot, so I went back to guard duty, looking for red, or that weird distortion from active camo. I was so busy looking for them, I couldn't hear the rocket until it was on me. This time when I came back, I wasn't near the flag, but I was next to a shotgun. I figured I could beat that rocket launcher guy to the flag and take him down, mafia style. Problem was, he had a rocket and was looking for me too. Before I can get a clean shot on him, he blows me away again, and apparently grabs the flag and runs back to his base. 2-0 them, and we are looking pretty shabby. I decided that I wouldn't leave the flag again, as much as I could avoid it. Too bad about that sniper, I mean I don't even know how he hit that shot on me. One minute I'm standing their looking for red, the next I'm opening my eyes to a cadre of reds, and one throwing a plasma grenade at me. Yeah, he stuck me alright, right on the visor, couldn't see a damned thing! Just blue glow before I went down again. I ended up getting back in just as they scored that last flag, talk about disappointing. We might've stood a chance if my team had some brains in their helmets, but the instructors should set them straight, right? Tell me about how bad they got it when I get back from repairs over at Mombasa.