Operation: Saber Strikes

The path begins

(F/N) POV
      I stood on the tarmac with Zach behind me as I inspected the pilots in front of me I focused in on one who was looking off "Son, do you know what a pilot needs above everything else?" He focused on me "Ummmmm... courage?" I laughed "No, it's a helicopter. You can be as courageous as you want but without your helicopter you're useless." He shrunk "Now! I'm expecting you know who we're are. I am Saber, this is Striker we have flown every major raid since Operation Neptune Spear we will teach you, you will learn and you will not like it! Am I understood?" My head snapped left as I heard "No sir!" As I stormed over "Who said that?! Who the fuck said that?! Was it you?! I bet it was! I've got your name I've got your number I will PTO you until you fucking die!" I heard the pilot behind him "It was me sir!" I walked over "So you think you're a man huh? Is that it! You think you can come into my castle and fuck with me? I like that no I respect that! I might just make your death quick" as I threw a kick into his side dropping him "You ever disrespect me with some slimy cock sucking common twinkle toe bullshit again and I will kick your nuts so fucking hard your family with lose a son and gain a daughter! Do you understand me?!" He coughed as he replied "Ye- Yessir!" I chuckled "Get the fuck up you wanna act like a man stand like one!" As I walked back to the front of the class as I noticed Six and The few operators I'm friends with there "Now I put an order into Rainbow for a shit ton of badasses and pillage hungry murder machines, and instead all I got was you cupcake cock clowns and a side order of fuck nuggets. Now fear not, I will reorganize the fuck up that is your life, I will turn you into good fucking pilot, I will fuck start your soul! But at the end of these 6 months I will turn you caveman, rock chomping grass eating peter puffers into fuck masters of galactic destruction" the pilots all seemed nervous as I yelled "Get your corpses to the fucking choppers! Get strapped in and do not touch a fucking thing! Striker, go with them, watch them, you have permission to cut off their balls put 'em where their eyes should be put a sombrero on their head and beat them like a piñata" he nodded as I walked to Six "Afternoon sir, what brings you out here to my class on this fine morning?" He looked at me "Going back to nam for training, are we?" I nodded "I've found fear of physical pain is an excellent motivator, Sir." He sighed "try not to break my pilots, Saber. I leave the rest to you." I looked at Freyja, Jordan, Elias, Eliza and Monika "Hello there, need anything?" They shook their head as Monika spoke "Just wanted to see you do your thing, can we?" I nodded as I heard Zach "(F/N)! He's pressing buttons!" I sighed "I swear to Christ if I walk over there and you have those fucking displays up every fucking one of you bastards are going to crab walk around this entire base until you learn to follow directions!" As I started storming over to the chopper as the pilot frantically tried turning off the display before I arrived at the door "Listen to fucking directions, or your friends will break you." He nodded terrified as i yelled "Turn on the displays!" A few seconds later I yelled "Turn them off!" I waited another 5 seconds "Turn them on!" They did so "Do you understand those words?!" I heard a chorus of "Hooah"s as I yelled "Do not hit any buttons unless I tell you do." I heard another chorus of "Hooah"s I sighed "Fucking amateurs" I walked over to Zach "How do you wanna do this?" He looked thoughtful before replying "Why don't we ride with them and tell them where they fuck up and give them homework to practice for another ride along to see if they fixed it?" I thought it over "Well done, Okay! We will ride with you 2 at a time, you will do your normal routine to take off and we will tell you where you fuck up, you then have 2 days to unfuck yourself before we do another ride along, Clear?!" they all yelled "Yes sir!" I nodded to Zach "Let's get to work Striker." As I jumped into the back of the closest Blackhawk "Show me what you got." He pulled the stick back fairly sharply and quickly gained altitude as he lifted the nose skyward "Level Now!" He pushed the stick forward and leveled "Land this fuckin' bird.... Now!" He put it down as I yanked him out of the pilot seat and punched him square in the jaw "You almost killed us! Who the fuck taught you to fly?! They oughta be fucking shot! You get your ass in a simulator and get good at taking off and keeping it level or I'll take your license away from you my god damn self! You hear me?!" He nodded frantically as he scrambled away "Go! Go you chicken fuck! Get to the simulator!" As he ran away I spun to the co-pilot "Get this fucking chopper turned off and locked the fuck away! You hear me?! Get it done!" As I stormed off mumbling "Fucking amateurs, six is trying to get me to take a bunch of kids to be professional pilots, ha as fucking if" Monika appeared next to me "You okay?" I looked over "No, I'm pretty fucking far from okay, Because these fucking imbeciles can't fly a fucking helicopter!" As I spun towards the pilots waiting for their ride along as I got a bottle of water and drank as much as I can before dropping it "but of course I have to fix the situation because Six can't just say no, he has to see potential. Fuckin bullshit!" As I hopped into the next chopper "Come on, show me how you're going to fuck up" she pulled the stick back and slowly climbed keeping it level but too slow "put her down, I already see where you're fucking up" she landed "You're too slow, work on keeping it level and gaining altitude faster." As I jumped out and moved to the next chopper as Zach made eye contact and sighed as we took off again atleast I'm almost done just this last one "Alright come on" he yanked the stick back keeping it level but rising very fast, and very shaky. I sighed "Land" as his tires hit the ground I spoke "Slow it down a bit, work on keeping it level and steady. You're going to launch someone out the side of the chopper if you don't" as I jumped out "Fucking amateurs" I sat against the wall watching as the pilots I observed started practicing what I told them the last one was struggling he kept rising too quickly and shaking erratically I noticed too late when the tail rotor fell off and they started spinning. We watched as they spun before hitting the ground and catching fire I ran towards the wreckage yanking on the door before it gave way as I scrambled to get the pilots out of their harness I watched as the fire slowly moved to the leaking fuselage I realized what was about to happen as I yelled "Get back!" As I turned and ran I got maybe 12 meters before the Blackhawks tail blew up the overpressure tossing me to the ground as I spun when I heard screaming I looked and saw the two pilots patting themselves down screaming until 30 seconds later they fell silent, they're bodies burnt horribly as I stood and started yelling "You stupid fucks! You should've checked your fucking helicopter! If you did what you were taught you'd still be fucking alive! God damnit! You stupid son of a bitch! This is why we double check our helicopters! Fuck!!"  As I fell to my ass as I heard the sirens grow louder I heard Zach next to me "what happened?" I looked over "they didn't check their fucking chopper, the tail rotor came off. They dropped like.... like a sack of fucking rocks man" he sighed "fuckin' 'ell" I nodded as Six appeared next to us "What the hell happened?" I looked up as Zach spoke "Tail rotor came off, there's nothing they could've done to save it. I recommend every one of these blackhawks are properly checked and maintained or this is just gonna keep happening" he nodded "I'll make sure it happens, Training is over for the day! Everyone take the day off and relax we'll... uh, We'll continue training tomorrow!" I stood up and silently walked to the dorm before dropping on the couch as laying there, a minute later I heard the door open and saw Zach and the rest of my friends walking in as I closed my eyes again I felt a weight on the arm rest next to me as I hear Monika "Hey (F/N) you okay?" I nodded as she spoke again "Are you lying to me?" I shook my head no as Zach spoke "If he doesn't want to talk, you won't get a thing out of him" she sighed as the TV turned on I just laid there as I heard Top Gun start playing. I just laid there thinking about those two men and how they died, they died in some stupid avoidable training accident. I sighed and sat up so Monika and someone else could sit on the couch as I continued to think about how they died How hard is it to ask for the maintenance crew to check the security of everything? Why wouldn't they do that? I thought about it before eventually falling asleep.