Diego's Story

WORK IN PROGRESS LOL Maybe could do things that aren't just a slightly different Apocolypse now

## Summery

Throught the course of the War in Vietnam, Diego López would be tasked on multiple top secret missions throught the country and its neighbours such as Laos. However one particular mission would prove to be the most challenging yet. The Assassination of North Vietnamese General Bing Mao.

Since the start of the war Bing Mao has been a major thorn in the south force's side, becoming a much bigger target after the tet offensive, in which Bing played a part in orchestrating.

The US has ordered many teams of specialists and operatives from the airforce to MACV with the task to eliminate Bing Mao, all of which have failed

in 1969 after the tet offensive, Diego López, a Green Beret Operative is tasked by the military higherups to head across the boarder of Laos and then into the jungle of North Vietnam to find and elimate Bing Mao whom they believe to have found through a Viet Cong Informant. Diego is assigned a squad of fresh faced recruits with little combat experience and their own squad leader, serving as the primary lead for the squad who were just assisting the Green Beret. One of the recruits, Tyrone Jackson, despite being in the war since its start had very little experience with combat often assigned to defending bases as a machine gunner. Despite this he would go onto become one of the most valued members of the squad, despite starting out very cynical and unhappy being on this mission, Diego would prove to be an excelent mentor for Tyrone, after weeks of their journey throught the jungle Tyrone would come to appreciate Diego's talents as a leader and combatant.

The squad in their travels to Bing's Compound came with many hurdles as they tread through enemy territory, from ambushes, Villages holding POWs in which the squad insisted on saving. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, Pathet Lao Camps and the wild fauna. In which the squad would mostly be wiped out only leaving Diego, Tyrone and a few others

Once they reached the compound the squad would get themselves captured by the Viet Cong after a failed assault due to Bing's squad's skills in Guerilla Warfare. The rest of the squad would be killed through grusome and torturous methods by the VC. Diego however managed to escape and save Tyrone, they fled into the jungle not too far from the VC camp and avoid detection. Its here where Diego devises his plan using Bing's tactics against him, taking out and distracting as many of them as possible, recover the squad's radio and call for an air strike on the area. After successfully executing the plan the whole camp was napalmed with Diego and Tyrone surviving, they check the wreckage after the fires died down to find Bing's corpse but they could not determine any of the bodies as him as most were too scorched and unrecognizable, its never clear if Bing Survived or was killed by the air strike.

## Order of events:

### Possible introduction

* Starts with a scene of Marines doing a search on a Viet Cong Village, almost all are wiped out by Bing Mao and his booby traps.
* Next scene US army Generals discussing a report on the events, they know who it was, the top brass then explains their attempts to stop him have all but failed aswell as not knowing where he is, the generals then explain they may have a possible location for him given to them by an informant in Bing's Squad. The big man general is hesitant to lose more of their top men to what could be a Viet Cong ruse, they assure him this informant is reliable and have a good feeling on it. He reluctantly agrees and then discuss who should do it, they then decide rather than losing a whole squad of top men they could send on of their best backed by a squad of regular Army soldiers, this man is Diego López

### Act 1: Intro

* We open with a scene possibly similar to Apocolypse now, Diego López is on leave in Saigon and is greeted by army officals to report in for a mission.
* Diego arrives at the meeting and is explained the situation, the target and his task. Diego isn't too happy he will be assigned a squad of fresh recruits who've had not much combat experience rather than his usual Green Beret pals but is reassured that with his talents he can help them get through it no problem.

### Act 2: Entering Laos

* Trasition to Diego in Khe Sanh wearing his green beret, tiger stripes, battle harness and XM slung over his shoulder, walking through to meet up with his new squad, he walks in one of the tents and sees them all gathered, Ten clean looking soldiers listening to rock and roll, chatting and goofing around, they quiet down after Diego interupts saying "Are you my squad?". The squad lead, the oldest looking perks up and darts over introducing himself and the members of the squad. Diego looking unimpressed tells them their heading out soon so they should get ready and walks off.
* Diego waits by the heliport talking with the AirCav leader escorting them to their drop zone, the squad catches up as they all prepare to take off. The chopper takes the team over the border as they get a look at the country side and talk. As the team approaches the land zone everything is relatively quiet. The squad touch down but stay alert. When the area is cleared out the Air Cav part ways and take off back across the border. Diego's squad get their barings and head into the jungle

### Stop 1: Pathet Lao Ambush

* Shortly after touchdown the squad get ambushed by Pathet Lao forces who are revealed to be reinforcements for a current ongoing battle further ahead, but they stopped to set a trap after seeing the helicopter, thinking it was enemy reinforcments. One member of the squad is killed

### Stop 2: Battlefield

* The Squad comes across the battle, the Royal Lao Military fighting against the Pathet Lao. They have to cross the battlefield to reach their goal. They join up with the Lao Military and work their way through the battle trying to find a way through, they find a US special forces adviser who helps them. They make it through without any accidents

### Act 4: North Vietnam

* Reaching the border to North Vietnam and close to the Ho Chi Minh trail, they try to sneak their way through, two squad members are hit by a mine explosion, one dies instantly the other slowly bleeds out from his leg being blown off.

### Stop 5: Border Ambush

* Shortly after the explosion, Viet Cong forces watching the border attack the squad, luckily no one is killed

### Stop 6: Village POWs

* After the ambush they find a small Viet Cong village holding US Pilots as Prisoners. The Squad leader insists on saving them but Diego refuses as they dont have time for it. Members of the squad ignore him and plan to attack the village. Tensions rise and the squad leader pulls a gun on Diego. He reluctantly allows the squad to attempt a rescue however it doesnt work out, the POWs are killed as a result along with the Squad leader and most of the squad leaving only a few left.

### Stop 7: Bing's Compound

* Finally the last of the unit reach Bing's compound, weary and tired. They wait outside the area for the moment to strike, Diego hatches a plan but it all goes wrong, Bing was one step ahead of them and they are captured.

### Act 4: Compound

* Diego, Tyrone and the other two remaining squad members are held prisoners, Diego is tortured but he doesn't break. They then instead decide to tortue the other two members, Killing one of them infront of Diego in a very grusome manner. While inprisoned Diego managed to break himself out, killing one of the guards and stealing his gun, he frees tyrone but doesn't get a chance to save the last member of the squad. They flee into the jungle to think of a rescue plan, but before they could they hear screams coming from the compound, as they check the last member is being strung up and killed in the middle of the compound as they made quick realisation of Diego and Tyrones escape. With the last member dead all that is left is for Diego to kill Bing. Bing sends his men out to find Diego but with quick thinking he decides to use Bing's tactics against him, setting traps and small ambushes killing his persuers one by one. With a good enough distraction Diego sneaks back into the base and reclaims the squad's radio calling a napalm strike on the area. He fights his way out of the village and tries to recover the bodies of his fallen squad in time before finally making it out. He manages to cause a big enough distraction Bing and his men don't have time to get away from the airstrike, the base is napalmed and Diego and Tyrone survive.

### Act 5: End

* After the fires die down, and the sun risen, Diego and Tyrone check the bodies to try and find Bing but they cannot makeout any of them due to the contition they are in. Diego couldn't confirm the kill but the mission was deemed successful.