Ryan moved with his new unit as they headed up the beach, covered by other units to their flank, and the raining firepower of the air cover and ships. Despite having seen it before and trained with similar situations, the scene was still overwhelming to his senses. The battlefield was a melange of sound, movement and smells.
Nonetheless, the horse kept his instincts under control by virtue of his training, and kept his M4 pulled tight to his shoulder. A Beta-C magazine was plugged into the mag well, and he hammered out long volleys of fire to cover the others as they moved. As a machine-gun nest opened up as they advanced from cover to cover, and he triggered his M203 with a semi-musical 'phoont' as the 40mm high-explosive round sailed off into the sand-bag position with a rolling thump. The others had pressed on ahead, and were covering ground well, the air cover holding off the majority of the hostiles.
Keeping up with the unit as they moved and communicated, he didn't butt in so far, as they were doing as he'd ordered: pushing up and securing ground. As the call regarding the door came in, he replied.
"Hold position at th' door - dinna go through until we're all assembled and th' area's secured. Air's keeping 'em off our arses for now and uh, 'stemmin' their reinforcements'. We'll regroup afore we knock politely and go in. Give 'em a chance ta tidy up, like".
Skidding across the mud and sand, the horse rifle-butted a hostile in the face as he rounded the corner of a building, sending him flailing back far enough to put one into him from the rifle, before he caught up with the others, diving over the sandbags and nodding to the others.
"A'reet," he said with a cheeky grin. "Hope I didna miss all the fun. Anyway," he nodded to Ray. "Yer shoulder, howzit?" he gave a quick look over and a punctual nod. "Reckon ye ain't gonna bleed to death any time. But I don't want ya to be in danger, or hold anyone back if yeh dinna think you can carry on - and there ain't nothin' wrong wi' it neither. Th' rest of yeh - reload, an' stack up on the door. Breach and clear the complex beyond, stick in formation until we've cleared it, unless it's too big. Then we secure the door an' entrance, an' wait for reinforcements. Remember, we're lookin' fer intel. Hard-drives, papers, anythin' we can get our hands on." He tapped a pouch on his belt that held a smart-phone. "An' remember ta take pictures an' all, once the shootin's over - we dinna want anythin' missed fer the intel lads".
Dropping the empty Beta mag, he replaced it with a standard M4 magazine, pulled his shemagh up over his muzzle and adjusted his helmet, before pulling the stock of his M4 tight to his shoulder.
He nodded to Murphy, Ray and Ben. Motioning to Ben with a nod, he instructed him to stack up on the other side of the door, and to stand ready to pop a flashbang through the door before they stormed through the door.