Captain Manser Blog #6
The following is a partial testimony from Captain Manser, SZ 129, concerning the death of private 1st class William Jefferson Jackson. Headquarters, in an attempt to maintain open lines of dialogue with new members of the survival community, asks that you read the Captain’s words with the understanding that his condition at the time of the interview was one of deep regret and sadness at the loss of one of the company’s finest and most dedicated soldiers. Moreover, the Captain also held this soldier in particularly high esteem and, as a result, has not been available for active duty for several weeks since the event. Presently, he is working in complete cooperation with the company to find not only the cause of this unfortunate situation but also the best way to avoid it ever happening again.
“We were training hard. I tend to push The Line really hard when they are putting a new tool on the belt. Training should almost be worse than real life scenarios. That’s how I learned. That’s how they got so strong. I made some bad decisions. The dogs seemed disturbed from the get go that morning, too. I kept the boys up really late with some concrete work the night before. I wanted them tired on the morning of the training, needed to know how the dogs would work with guys that weren’t as sharp as they would normally be. I chose Jackson on the 1st run just to show the rest of them how it’s done. He’s always on top of new programs. I don’t know what the fuck happened. The dogs, they just took their eyes off of the practice bodies for a second. Then the whole damned thing was out of control. They just went for the throat. They were already killing Jackson before I even opened fire. Two more of em’ broke off their handlers like a real TZ was standing in the field. Vicious. Hateful. Doing everything they have been trained to do. I just opened up on them all. Jackson, now that I really think about it, he was already bleeding out. Goddamn. Goddamn it. I just keep thinking about it all…Those dogs don’t make mistakes. It has to be a mistake, right? I wasn’t shooting at Jackson on purpose, was I? I keep coming back to it, those dogs don’t attack anything. Nothing that doesn’t… Anything…but the virus. Right?”
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