Operation Reset - Part 1

Somewhere north  of Ozorkow - July 17 2000

Operation Resets objectives are for a special forces team to capture Dr Piotr Czerwinski and any research and/or prototype for a mechanical computer chip (MCCS - Modular Computer Chip Surrogate). Dr Czerwinski will have to be extracted from Lodz University - Poland. The Team will then link up with the 5th division offensive at Kalisz, and return to the UK.  The window of opportunity is narrowing, the DIA have intercepted intelligence that suggests KGB agents will try to extract him there selves soon.

Due to this narrowing window of opportunity Strike Zulu, a US special forces team comprising of a 5 man SEAL team and a 4 man Ranger team, led by Major Billings, is due to be despatched to Lodz - Poland. Due to events in Poland they have to move fast and are short of men. Members of a combined special forces unit, commanded by the British SAS have been attached to Strike Zulu.

After a briefing and introduction on board a C-130 Hercules, Strike Zulu leaves RAF Brize Norton at 00.00. After an uneventful 2 hour flight they land in darkness in a field somewhere north of Ozorkow. They are met off the plane by their support element from the 75th Rangers, and 2 Polish guides. 

Strike Zulu heads south in darkness, lead by their local guides around the towns of Ozkorow and Zgiers without incident. The guides lead them in to the heart of the city of Lodz using their local knowledge to avoid Soviet or Polish patrols. The headquarters and supply elements of the Polish 6th Border Guard Brigade and the Soviet 20th Tank Division are both known to be using the city.

At around 03.30 Strike Zulu arrives in a large public park. While the Rangers set up their support weapons to cover the retreat, the SAS, SEALs and Polish guides scaled the wall and crossed the street to the university buildings. Dr Czerwinskis apartment was soon found in the accommodation blocks and the doctor was secured.

The teams now split up, the SEALs were remained at the accomodation block to provide cover and to guard Dr Czerwinski, while the SAS team crossed the road and entered the university complex. They found Dr Czerwinskis lab across a large open quadrangle. As they aproached the lab they noticed there were lights moving inside. The group split, one half remained near the door to keep look out while the other group stealthily infiltrated the lab. They caught a 4 man search team by surpise in the lab and quickly neutrilised them.

The SAS team collected Dr Czerwinskis notes and what appeared to be the prototype MCCS device bundled in a packing case. They began to withdraw from the university complex across the exposed quadrangle making use of the little cover available. It was here they came under fire from a concealed sniper which they could not locate, popping smoke for cover they exited on to the street.

Back in the street the SEAL team had also come under fire and reacted, surpressing the front of a building which they believed to be a hospital. Under covering fire form the Rangers, both the SAS and SEAL team retreated back to the park.

After a brief discussion they decided they would retrace their entrance route and head back to Kalisz that way. By 06.00 they wear approaching the bridge to the south of Kolo, when they encountered a large Soviet force. As they watched the soviets prepared and fired rocket batteries at targets to the South West. Strike Zulu prepared their weapons and spead towards the Soviets trusting on speed, surpise and aggresion to confuse and scatter them...

to be continued...