Chapter 15 – Doubts and Duties
Jerry lay in his bunk and stared at the overhead pipes. The mood on A.C.S. Raymond Shepherd was solemn, and the three-day trip through cross-space felt like it was taking forever. The battle group had blundered right into the Paragon ambush, and many infantrymen had died. His own platoon had only survived due to friendly fire from A.C.S. Poleaxe. It was a bitter, sobering thought.
The whole battle group had been hastily reorganized. A.C.S. Promontory's infantry company—33rd Regiment, Company A, Oakland Sharpshooters—had taken heavy casualties, so the battlecruiser had taken on a few infantry squads from other ships. A few ships had left the fleet altogether and headed back to Agrarian space with the wounded and dead. The Ladies' Auxiliary was waiting to pro
