(Originally Posted Friday 7-13-18)
The first thing that stood out to me in this pic was the two types of soldiers. So that tells me right off that there’s two groups in play here.
Then we see that they’re all focusing in the same direction and heading toward something.
That would be our third group, the enemy.
The guys in black are a six-man bodyguard counter-assault team protecting their VIP.
The guy in camo is a little trickier depending on how we want the story to go.
Easy answer is, he’s another merc for a different company that’s guarding whatever location these guys are all at. Or maybe they all work for the same company but different divisions.
The other option is maybe he’s active US military personal. This would affect who the enemy is.
Terrorist group, no problem.
But another merc company attacking a US military base would lead to all kinds of fallout.
On the other hand, we could flip it and instead of these guys being the good guys, maybe they’re the bad guys and they’re being attacked by the US or by an American company.
There’s a lot of options we could go with here especially if we just change the players and POV of the action.
And that doesn’t even include the ‘why’ of the attack or the motives or objective behind it.
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