Chris' Deployment Journal

About a week ago, we were on QRF ('Quick Reaction Force' – just basically sitting around, staying in uniform and ready, in case something happens and they need someone to react to it), when we're told that we're going to have to roll out on a mission. Normally on QRF we only have a night mission but on this day we were told we had to go out and check the polling sites for the upcoming constitutional election.

We'd only checked a couple of sites (we have nearly 100 we have to check in our sectors) when we got a call over the radio of shots fired at the 3,000+ year-old Citadel. Since we were the QRF, we had to respond.