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Operation: Steel Coffin
Log Nr: 0800H12SEPT2024/0394-SC
Risk Classification: Apolaki
Background: Steel Coffin was a mechanized infantry operation conducted together with Operation Skulltaker in connection with the Red Casanova Campaign.
The campaign in question was a military offensive executed by Paranormal Combat-capable Units under the Department of Supernatural Defense directed against Lawless Anomalous Groups in and around Bongao, Tawi-Tawi. Steel Coffin was an operation executed in support of another operation against Hji Bashir Radjiki, a local mayor with a thaumaturgic Private Armed Group in possession of three Lethal Esoteric Objects (LEO), a cadre of Abnormal Belligerent Entities (ABE), two Type-7091Reclusive Folkloric Natives (RFN), two Dangerous Extranormal Individuals (DEI), and a Highly Dangerous Extranormal Individual (HDEI). The PAG was used in several skirmishes against rival politicians with anomalous armed groups, and families which were involved in a rido2 with his own clan.
The existence of the PAG was discovered after assets of OMNINT Division surveyed a critical area that acted as a battlefield between two clashing groups, the Communist-aligned Blood Scorpion Brigade and the then-unnamed group of Radjiki's private army. Both groups have earned LAG status due to the amount of anomalous items and entities in their possession which they weaponize on a regular basis. Elements of the Anomalous Warfare Battalion's Occult Warfare Command (OWCOM) 5th Company engaged both groups, which resulted with Blood Scorpion Brigade's near annihilation and Radjiki PAG's retreat from the combat zone. Due to the influence and destructive capabilities of the Radjiki PAG based on their prior activities, the group became the subject of Operation Steel Coffin and its neutralization was raised to Level 1 Priority.
Hji Bashir Radjiki was involved in several murders of his rivals and rido skirmishes, most which were anomalous in nature and had resulted with the deaths of civilians, as well as the near lifting of the Veil due to the difficulty of disseminating cover up stories for the incidents. In addition, subject target was involved in the kidnappings of several female victims and the funding of an Abu Sayyaf sub faction led by a certain Abdullahi Hassan, alias Commander Pangil (ASG-PANGIL), who masterminded the assassination of a Foundation Officer while departing from Site-1507, an aviary containment site in Darul Akram, Tawi-Tawi, as well as the ambush of a visiting American envoy of the US Embassy at Zamboanga City.
Mission: The purpose of the operation was to conduct a mechanized infantry movement with the three surviving LAV-300s of the Doomsday Company as point elements and the members of Uniform Company, the 4th, 7th and 8th Platoons, as the main effort. It was executed to conduct area denial and force Radjiki PAG elements back to its territory until they are cornered to the designated kill zone for easy neutralization.
Execution: The designated operation area was the road starting from Black Site-213, a rear command post located near the Grab 'n Cash Convenience Store and disguised as an abandoned civilian motorpool, to the Radjiki Residence, the kill zone. The road in question was the Lamion Highway, designated in the maps as "Charlie Highway" both for brevity and as a counter-intelligence measure in case an information breach occurs.
As stated earlier, the participating units comprised of three LAV-300s as point element, procured from the 4th Armor Column of the Doomsday Company, AWBn, and the 4th, 7th and 8th Platoons of the Uniform Company, AWBn as the main effort with ATCD Containment Teams attached to deal with anomalous targets of interest. A Vulture Drone with a serial number of VD-9385 flew along the unit as a combat observer and close air support. It is armed with a pair of .60 caliber machine guns equipped with interchangeable ammunition cartridges loaded with Anomalous Material Piercing and Para-Energy Seeker rounds.
A contingent of PNP Special Action Force-Counter Paranormal Operations Group shadowed the movement through an adjacent road aboard a mobile battalion deployment vehicle and acted as a Quick Reactionary Force should the operating elements encountered unexpected events.
For the purpose of the operation, the assets drawn from the Doomsday and Uniform Companies were grouped and renamed as the Forward Mechanized Infantry Platoon for ease of identification.
LOG
Observer: VD-9385 On-Board Camera
Subject/s: Forward Mechanized Infantry Platoon
Location: Charlie Highway
×××××××××18:01 - The armor assets of the FMIP left the garage of Black Site-213 in a vertical column formation. As soon as they were on the road, the vehicles began to realign in a wedge formation by order of the platoon commander aboard the lead vehicle. Unit designations began to appear on-screen and tagged the armor assets from left to right as Coffin-1 through Coffin-3, respectively.
18:04 - Coffin-2, the lead LAV-300, ordered for a decrease in speed as several civilian vehicles with gun mounts appeared ahead of the Platoon. Soon enough, the armor assets ground to a halt as the armed civilian vehicles closes in on their position.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] - Coffin-2: All units, fire for effect!
18:06 - The .80 caliber turrets of the armor assets swiveled and turned, each unit tracking their own targets. As soon as their aims were locked, they began firing.
18:08 - The civilian vehicles returned fire, some bullets simply dented the hull of the armored vehicles. Coffins-1 through -3 continued their volume of fire until one of the civilian vehicles was neutralized in a fiery explosion.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] - Coffin-2: All units, follow through!
18:11 - Sporadic explosions from the civilian vehicles. The surviving targets began to reverse and turn towards the direction where they came from. Coffins-1 through -3 did not react and simply watched them leave. They soon proceeded further across the highway.
18:15 - Several hostile elements on foot engaged the advancing armor assets. Marine Rifle Squads aboard Coffins-1 through -3 manned the gun ports and began firing from the armor assets, eliminating some of the hostile elements while scattering the others to various directions. More gunmen replaced the dead ones and engaged the armor assets but the unit continuously returned fire.
18:19 - An armed belligerent with an ATGL (Anti Tank Grenade Launcher) recoilless rifle was detected from one of the buildings. Coffin-2 immediately requested for counter sniper action to the elements of the SAF-CPOG Quick Reactionary Force.
18:19 - The request for counter sniper action, although granted, was not provided, however, elements of SAF-CPOG commandos were seen infiltrating the building where the belligerent with an ATGL was nested and immediately neutralized the OPFOR in close quarters combat.
18:20 - As the armor assets advanced further, several humanoidly shaped gelatinous entities with red glowing eyes appeared in the vicinity. Each one were observed to punch itself in the abdomen, hands penetrating through their liquidous bodies and extracting from within metal objects of varying shapes and sizes.
18:22 - The ABEs began hurling the objects at the advancing armor assets. Coffin-2 immediately issued an order to the other Coffin units.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] Coffin-2: Contact left and right, prepare to dismount!
18:24 - Coffin-1 and Coffin-3 initiated a dismount. The rear ramp of the LAV-300s opened. Nine-man Marine Rifle Squads began to disembark from both armor assets with Coffin-1's Rifle Squad moving to the front right side of the vehicle and facing the OPFOR located at their 9 o'clock while Coffin-3's Rifle Squad moved to the front left side and faced the OPFORs located at their 3 o'clock. Both armor assets turned their turrets at the direction where their Rifle Squads were faced.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] Coffin-2: Coffin-1 through -3, volume of fire!
18:27 - As Coffin-1 and Coffin-3 and their Rifle Squads exchanged fire with the ABEs, Coffin-2 dismounted its troops, its first fireteam positioned itself at the left side of the armor asset's rear while the second fireteam on the rear's right side. The squad leader led the Rifle Squad from the center. Ahead, several ABEs converged and began engaging the troops with the metal objects they withdrew from their bodies.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] Coffin-2: Squad, volume of fire!
18:31 - The Marines engaged the ABEs with 5.56mm PES rounds; the faint greenish glow of their ammunition, reminiscent of tracers, could be seen brightly in the dark afternoon, homing in on ABEs. Likewise, the ABEs were responding with a variety of steel objects hurled at an exceptional speed. Spherical, flattened, and spiky projectiles sailed through the air and landed either on armored hull or on the plated chest rig of a Marine. Those who were injured were immediately dragged by the unit corpsmen inside the armor assets to be administered with medical care.
18:36 - As Coffin-1 and Coffin-3 continuously engaged the belligerents opposite them, elements of SAF-CPOG assigned as QRF engaged the ABEs near Coffin-1's sector of fire. Their position was unseen but the trajectory of their fired ammunition traced back to a small mosque still under construction northwest of the ABE's location. The ensued firefight pinned the ABEs down until they were neutralized to the last.
18:35 - Coffin-1's Rifle Squad realigned themselves similar to the formation assumed by Coffin-2's Rifle Squad. The QRF began to descend the sloped path until they were at the roadside. Both Coffin-1, Coffin-2 and the QRF engaged the ABEs at their 12 o'clock. Coffin-3 neutralized the ABEs in its sector of fire at the same time. Soon, they assumed a forward wedge formation similar to the alignment of Coffin-1 and -2.
18:37 - The Platoon engaged another arriving batch of ABEs, tearing their gelatinous bodies apart with an assortment of anomalous ammunition. The .80 caliber turrets of the LAV-300s were dispensed Anomalous Material Piercing rounds while the Marine Rifle Squads fired Para-Energy Seeker rounds. The volley of bullets sent across the no-man's land has pierced through the metal objects thrown by the ABEs and mowed down the advancing line. After the attack, the ABEs moved erratically in unusual gait; most of them hit the ground with a wet thud until the last one was neutralized.
18:41 - A lone hooded figure appeared in the middle of the road. It was approaching the armored column with an outstretched hand. From the distance, its hands were burning in blue flames.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] Coffin-2: Platoon, bounce up!
18:45 - As the HDEI approaches, two skeletally emaciated humanoid entities in tattered clothings and armed with curved knives appeared from the ground behind the figure. The RFNs let out a loud scream before charging ahead of the HDEI.
18:47 - The Platoon opened fire as they advanced; the RFNs began slicing bullets midair as they moved past an armor asset and closed in on the nearest group of Marine, striking down their first kills. Both RFNs were identified as the twin Mananagas from Tarlac, Kadiliman and Tangis, who were incriminated in several killings of prominent Aswangs and Tikbalangs, which sparked a conflict between the two races in the province.
18:50 - Due to the close proximity of their targets and their divided attention, some of the bullets managed to penetrate the Mananagas' bodies, causing them to bleed profusely. PFC "Scareye" PN(M) drew out his bolo and engaged one of the Mananaga, Tangis, and wounded him with a strike to the neck. Tangis raised its weapon horizontally to protect itself from an overhead strike swung by Scareye as a follow-up, but the Marine quickly withdrew the feint and instead launched his left knee, which slammed against the chest of the RFN.
18:49 - As the entity hit the ground, Scareye broke its skull with a downward strike. He quickly pulled out his Colt .45 and opened fire at the other Mananaga, Kadiliman with 9mm AMP rounds. He emptied his clip at the RFN until his gun clicked. The targeted RFN hit the ground, dead.
18:51 - Just as he was about to sheath his small arms, the HDEI identified as "Kaine" attacked Scareye with a blazing fist, sending the Marine across the ground. Staff Sergeant "Sulfur" PN(M) charged into the fray, supported by Private "Helix" PN(M), who was manning Coffin-2's hatch M60 machine gun. The squad leader fired his rifle at the HDEI while Helix provided suppression fire. Corporal "Patch" PN(M), Coffin-2's designated Corpsman, dragged Scareye out of harm's way as the HDEI began his retreat.
18:52 - Sulfur pursued the HDEI while strafing at his direction. Bullets penetrated the HDEI, angering him. He turned and launched a fireball at Sulfur's direction, who rolled to the left before firing after completing his evasion. The HDEI suddenly morphed into a shadow serpentine entity and extended one of its appendages at Sulfur's direction.
18:54 - The Marine drew out his bolo and parried the appendage with a strike before countering it with a sideward blow that wounded the HDEI. It slithered away and morphed back into its human form.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] Coffin-2: Request Close Air Support at Golf Charlie shackle India, Papa, Foxtrot, India, Papa, X-Ray, end shackle!
18:59 - The video zoomed in on the HDEI as the Vulture Drone, VD-9385, sped towards the target. The feed abruptly flashed several times as the mounted weapons of the drone fired at the direction of the HDEI. As the flashes dissipated, the HDEI was on the ground, along a bullet-skittered path.
19:01 - The Vulture Drone made a flip; the video feed briefly showed the night sky before flipping back to the overhead view of the Forward Mechanized Infantry Platoon. From their present position, the unit conducted a tank infantry movement in vertical column formation towards their destination.
19:04 - Fully armed bellligerents appeared from the buildings by the road. The Platoon immediately halted and initiated a volume of fire at the buildings. Several men in dark blue tactical gear were hit in the initial attack.
19:06 - The armed group returned fire, forcing the Marines to seek cover behind the attacking LAV-300s. The sound of the armor assets' turrets blared with a steady staccato, only pausing to confirm their kills. As the exchange of fire raged on, a chair suddenly appeared in the middle of the battlefield.
19:09 - The chair transformed into a humanoid canine, similar to a werewolf, and began advancing at the Platoon. Attached ATCD elements ordered for suppressive fire at the approaching Lethal Esoteric Object and disabled it with a leg shot. The exchange of fire continued for a few more seconds until a brief pause as the PAG elements retreated deeper into their territory. The Platoon secured the damaged anomaly.
19:15 - An Applied Thaumaturgy Combat Division Containment Team arrived after the encounter via a KM250 truck. They took charge of the situation regarding the anomaly while the Platoon continued on with its operation.
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19:20 - Another encounter. The armed group similar in equipment with the elements from the earlier skirmish engaged the advancing Platoon. The group was led by a DEI identified by the Drone's visual display link as "Garduce", a known hired gun in Sulu and a previous member of the SCP Foundation's Mobile Task Force Theta-47 "Unwanted Misfits", a unit comprising of personnel affected by an Extranormal Event simply known as the Dawson Incident to those who were involved. Garduce went AWOL from Foundation service and since then, had been sighted in several clashes between lawless elements across the Philippines.19:22 - Garduce was seen passing through building walls and taking potshots at the Marines, inflicting two casualties in a duration of ten seconds. Coffin-2's Marine Rifle Squad focused on the DEI with their Elan-Vital-Energy goggles activated. The PES rounds homed in on Garduce, neutralizing him effectively. The building where he last entered was fired upon by the armor assets, obliterating the structure with heavy firepower.
19:25 - A fully equipped PAG element revealed himself from cover and ran towards the middle of the road with a small blue rubber ball in hand. The PAG element threw it at the Marines. The ball landed on the face of a Marine, knocking him out unconscious3. The ball ricocheted from the starboard side of Coffin-1's hull, denting it in the process, back to the thrower. The OPFOR cocked back once more and hurled the ball at the Platoon. A Marine with a plank grabbed from the fence of a nearby house attempted to "bat back" the object. The ball crushed the plank and broke the Marine's arms, the force causing him to lose balance. The ball bounced back to its owner before Coffin-2 ordered a volume of fire to destroy both the object and the thrower.
19:27 - The thrower was perforated in the engagement but the ball remained undamaged. It simply rolled out of the user's hand. The Platoon immediately secured the object while they wait for an ATCD containment team. The movement continued.
19:31 - The procession finally came to a halt as the Platoon arrived at their destination. A mansion can be seen on the left side of the road. Several gun-mounted civilian vehicles mobilized to intercept the mechanized infantry. Upon coming into range, both sides opened fire; three enemy vehicles exploded in the initial volley while a Marine from Coffin-1's Rifle Squad was hit in the chest by a stray 7.62mm fired from an M60 mounted on one of the vehicles.
19:34 - The standoff lasted for a few more minutes before the surviving vehicles attempted to drive away they came, only to explode under concentrated firepower. The Platoon advanced while the turrets and the Marines continued firing at the congregated mass of armed belligerents in front. One of them led a fireteam armed only with a pair of cymbals while his subordinates were equipped with Foundation-issued modified P90M1 (Martian Variant) loaded with reactive armor piercing rounds. The belligerent with a cymbal struck his instrument together, causing a powerful sound to reverberate across the battlezone. It disoriented the Marines for a short time as the fireteam of the belligerent attacked the Platoon with their P90s. Behind them, their fellow PAG combatant took aim with her ATGL and fired a round, hitting Coffin-2 and detonating the armor asset on the spot.
19:36 - The remaining Marines reoriented themselves and aligned in a skirmisher right formation. They fired upon the belligerent with a cymbal before he could use his instrument again and attacked the rest of the fireteam before they could react. The enemy fireteam withdrew in a loose formation.
19:39 - The remaining armor assets fired upon the crowd, hoping to hit the belligerent with an ATGL. The Marines kept their aim at the fleeing specialized fireteam, with their respective autoriflemen leading the attack. They eventually eliminated the fireteam. Sulfur sprinted towards the cymbals on the ground near its previous user to secure the item. He glanced at the mechanized infantry and pointed at the woman with a hijab carrying an ATGL before striking the cymbals together twice, causing yet another powerful reverberation and sent toppling the buildings with weak foundation and made the people present lose their balances.
19:41 - The Marines and the armor assets started firing at the PAG elements whike they were on the ground, forcing them to crawl on their bellies for safety. A large number of belligerents were massacred in the process. Abruptly, a thick liquid materialized midair, conjured by a DEI, who levitated from among the crowd.
[AUTOMATED SPEECH TO TEXT MESSAGE] Coffin-1: Request Close Air Support at unidentified flying object over Golf Charlie shackle, Papa, Papa, India, Alpha, Bravo, Alpha, end shackle!
19:44 - The video feed fixated itself at the levitating DEI. The feed flashed in a strobe as the onboard weapons fired at the reality bender. When the flashes disappeared, the DEI was seen floating in low altitude with blood falling from his wounds. The Marines, with their PES rounds, eliminated the DEI with concentrated firepower.
19:46 - The PAG elements have retreated inside the mansion. The Platoon has completed its objective. It was relieved in place by elements of the 5th OWCOM Company and Alpha Company, AWBn. The Platoon was ordered to form a cordon around the mansion of Hji Bashir Radjiki and act as a security element. The assaulting elements soon infiltrated the mansion; gunfire and screams were heard, followed by explosions from crowd control grenades. Shortly, they came out with the severed head of Radjiki in hand.
[END OF FEED]
Operations Steel Coffin and Skulltaker were successful. Not only the former softened the defending PAG elements for the participants of Operation Skulltaker, it also managed to eliminate several key elements and confiscated loose anomalous weapons that paved way for the ease of neutralization of both Radjiki and his Private Armed Group. The casualties of the operation will never be forgotten. Their acts of valor not only distinguished themselves in the line of duty, but also contributed to the overall security of the nation.
In regards to the Foundation-issued weapons confiscated from the corpses of the belligerents, it was learned that the PAG had also been involved in skirmishes against SCP Foundation personnel and the weapons were stolen from eliminated Foundation agents. The Foundation extended their gratitude for our efforts in eliminating an obstruction to their organization's overall objective. The participants of Operations Steel Coffin and Skulltaker were awarded with a Foundation Tawi-Tawi Campaign and a Foundation Silver Star. In addition, the possibility of a joint exercise between the Anomalous Warfare Battalion and the SCP Foundation is currently being discussed.
Confiscated Items:
Item Nr: ATCD-784
Description: A damaged lycanthropic chair made out of narra wood. Due to the damage it sustained from the elements of FMIP, one of its legs were broken. Rehabilitation of its damage was underway.
Item Nr: ATCD-786
Description: A blue ball with extreme durability, elasticity and velocity when thrown with a powerful force. It is capable of destroying the most sturdy of materials and can dent strong armor plates until penetration through repeated contact with damaged area.
Item Nr: ATCD-787
Description: A pair of cymbals capable of emanating powerful percussion sound as to affect the surroundings such as disorientation and tectonic plates movement.