Operation: Pickup

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Operation: Pickup was a small operation organized by the US. Army and the Militia in Miami, Florida. It would involve 4 US Army Soldiers, and 5 Miami Militant's and 3 helicopters making constant back and forth trips to the Florida Quarantine Zone, dropping off civilians non-stop. However the mission failed when ground forces forgot to check an elderly man for signs of infection, this ended up with the elderly man who was now infected by the virus to attack the pilot specifically. The helicopter went down which attracted hordes of infected to attack the ground troops. The troops met up and defended a rotunda at a near by main street, which ended up being over run. The rotunda is now unofficially called "Mans Last Chance" among ex-militia members and town civilians. While the area is constantly traversed either by militia soldiers making their usual rounds or by scavengers looking for food or supplies, The rotunda itself is left untouched, all of the bodies are still there, along with all the weapons and dead infected still rotting away. This is done out of respect for the men who lost their lives in Operation: Pickup, making it a small unofficial memorial.