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    The Team Room
    The Team Room
    The Team Room
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    The Team Room

    By Bill Raskin

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    Special Forces A Team 824 serves at Camp Diamond, West Virginia. On the morning of September 10th, 2001, they report for a routine week of duty and training exercises. Written in a stage play format, The Team Room remembers the last day of peace and a transition to war.

     

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    "An entertaining, insightful glimpse into the team room, and into the minds, of a Special Forces detachment at the outset of war. The "green berets," as they are known, are a collection of young warriors whose skills and human emotions are laid bare by the realities of combat. Bill Raskin has been there, and now invites you into the world he inhabited."

    - Stanley McChrystal, General (Retired), US Army

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Raskin
    Release dateJul 20, 2021
    ISBN9781732994454
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      Book preview

      The Team Room - Bill Raskin

      The Team Room

      by

      Bill Raskin

      Copyright © 2021 Bill Raskin

      All rights reserved.

      Moreton LLC.

      ISBN: 978-1-7329944-5-4

      Cover design credit: Rachel Lawston at Lawston Design

      Formatting: Polgarus Studio

      Inside photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/UDDULE_eIBY. Presented by Sidekix Media on Unsplash

      Dedicated to all those Americans - past, present, and future - who serve in the apprenticeship of excellence that is the US Special Operations community.

      Table of Contents

      Characters

      ACT [1] SCENE [1]

      ACT [1] SCENE [2]

      ACT [1] SCENE [3]

      ACT [1] SCENE [4]

      ACT [2] SCENE [1]

      ACT [2] SCENE [2]

      ACT [2] SCENE [3]

      ACT [2] SCENE [4]

      A Note from Bill

      About the Author

      Glossary

      CHARACTERS

      DAI-UY** — The Captain.

      (**Pronounced die-wee. The Vietnamese word for captain. See Glossary at end for an expanded list of military terms, pronunciations, and definitions.)

      TOP — The Team Sergeant. A veteran of Mogadishu and Panama.

      JOSE — Intel Sergeant and acting Senior Weapons Sergeant.

      WES — Junior Weapons Sergeant.

      BILLY — Senior Engineer.

      TODD — Junior Engineer.

      DOC HOLLINS — Senior Medic, though he only arrived to the team within the past eighteen months.

      DALE — Junior Commo.

      THE CADET — An ROTC cadet who arrived for a two-week ride-along program.

      NEWS PERSONALITIES - IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

      DAVID STANSFIELD — National news anchor, based in New York, for the World Broadcasting Service (WBS) television network.

      JULIAN BURKE — WBS field reporter.

      SALLY PUTNAM — WBS field reporter.

      ELLIOT JACKSON — WBS Washington Bureau Chief.

      SETTING

      The team room for Operational Detachment - Alpha 824 (ODA 824, also known as an A Team), based at Camp Diamond, West Virginia.

      TIME

      Early morning, immediately after morning physical training, or PT.

      ACT I

      Opens in the team room

      Morning of 9/10/2001

      ACT II

      Opens in the team room

      Morning of 9/11/2001

      ACT [1]

      SCENE [1]

      (The scene opens in the team room for Special Forces ODA 824, immediately after morning physical training, or PT. The wall monitor shows 0740 hours on 9/10/2001.)

      CADET

      (Enters from stage right, dressed in PT gear and drenched in sweat. Walks/stumbles across the stage to the trash can, where he collapses on all fours and begins to vomit.)

      DOC HOLLINS

      (Enters from stage right. He walks over to stand beside the Cadet.)

      CADET

      Doc, I'll never survive two weeks of this!

      (Vomits again.)

      DOC HOLLINS

      Don't panic. You'll be OK. You just showed up for Monster Mondays is all.

      CADET

      Monster Mondays?

      DOC HOLLINS

      Top runs his hardest workout of the week right up front. It's his way of keeping everyone in line. A reminder for the young single guys, not to get too crazy over the weekend.

      CADET

      (Finished vomiting. Pushes himself off the trash can and remains sitting on the ground. Weary and breathing heavily, he looks up at Doc. He starts to say something, but then sinks into a slightly deeper, exhausted state.)

      DOC HOLLINS

      (Empathetic smile)

      C'mon, I'm putting some saline in you.

      CADET

      Huh?

      DOC HOLLINS

      An IV bag. I'm giving you an IV. It will get you back on your feet.

      (Pause)

      Then I'll show you where the locker rooms are. Get cleaned up and head back here. And don't worry. (Beat.) Monster Mondays have beat down far better men than you.

      (Offers the Cadet a hand and pulls him to his feet.)

      CADET

      (Looks confused at how to take that statement.)

      (Doc and the Cadet exit stage left.)

      (Pause of several seconds.)

      (Jose and Billy enter from stage right, also in sweaty PT gear.)

      BILLY

      Who's the kid at PT? The one talking to Top and Doc?

      JOSE

      He's one of those ROTC cadets. Come to do a ride-along with the team.

      BILLY

      Dufus, don't be a dufus! They come to post in the sum-mer-time. This is Sep-tem-ber. (Beat.) And besides, I never saw one hang with an A Team before.

      JOSE

      Hey, dufus! He's from one of those fancy Ivy League schools. I guess they go to school when they want. And when they don't, they don't. (Beat.) I don't know, ask Top.

      TOP

      (Enters from stage right.)

      Ask Top what?

      (He's a little grumpy. Walks past them, to the coffee maker, and begins to brew a pot.)

      BILLY

      Top, what's up with that Cadet?

      TOP

      (Holding an empty coffee mug, staring at the coffee maker and waiting for it to brew.)

      Last I saw, Doc was draggin' him off for an emergency PT-ectomy.

      BILLY

      No, I mean, why is he here now, in the fall? And why with us?

      TOP

      (Looks from the coffee maker to Billy.)

      Jesus, Billy! You're worse than my kids. I don't know. Ask the Cadet.

      (To Jose.)

      You two are running the range tomorrow. We tracking?

      JOSE

      Roger, Top. We'll have two DMVs for maneuver, and four thousand rounds - all calibers. We're set.

      TOP

      Not four thousand rounds, sixteen.

      JOSE

      Sixteen, what the hell?

      TOP

      End of the fiscal year is what the hell. The B Team dumped the rest of their excess on us.

      BILLY

      (Exasperated.)

      C'mon, Top! The B Team can't manage their ammo account, and now that's our problem?

      TOP

      You two let me get some coffee in peace! Work call's at zero-nine-thirty. Jose, lay on whatever extra DMVs and guns you need, and tell the B Team they will cough 'em up. So we can bail their feet from the fire.

      (Looks at Billy.)

      Billy, draw up a new training plan for the range, and tell me how many extra bodies you need to shoot all them rounds. I'll hit the other teams and grab hostages to pull triggers.

      JOSE

      Roger that, Top.

      BILLY

      (To Jose.)

      C'mon, let's clean up and then figure out this goat rodeo.

      (Jose and Billy exit stage left.)

      (Fade.)

      ACT [1]

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