OPERATION BEAVER DAM: FIGHTING AN UNUSUAL ENEMY
George Hand | May 11, 2022
The Mission Statement was typical enough — move to assault objective Beaver Dam in Area of Operations (AO) Hangus-Hugh, destroy assigned objective, exfiltrate from AO Hangus-Hugh. Hangus-Hugh… where did the Army generate these bizarre-o names? Why couldn’t we call it Hang’em-High? Yeah, that sounded good to me — Hang’em High… but no!
There were four of us: three natal males and one biologically assigned at birth as “other than natal male.” Two of us performed the actions on the objective and the other two filled the role of support and security. The Devil for sure was in the details as it would turn out.
Barker was the team leader for this mission. He had been there with our unit for a while and had a good-many connections with landowners in the vicinity, including the owner of all the land that encompassed AO Hangus-Hugh. Mr. Ed was the owner and Mr. Ed had a small problem — he
had a tremendous beaver dam formed up on his property that was choking off the creek as it ran through the land.
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