With that fourth vote we'll declare the rescue attempt locked.
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A course of action is decided, the Civilian Militia are tasked with the slaughter of the still un-fed weasels, what they lack in accuracy they are willing to make up with in sheer volume of fire.
It the falls to the resident AKP's to kill the ones that contain the still struggling victims, they concentrate their fire on the boulder like body carefully avoiding the fleshy throats wherein the human forms are almost visible, occasionally fingers stretching outward as if wrapped in a latex sheet.
At first they seem almost unphased, the weasels primitive nerves slow to process what is obviously fatal wounds, the brain not aware vital organs are shattered beyond function. Final they slow, then slump to the ground still. After a moment or two only signs of life in the sludge pit are the victims increasingly feeble struggles.
A bold soldier from the AKP's can restrain himself no longer. Pulling an oversized combat knife from his belt he wades in grabs a handful of weasel flesh behind the dual jaws and pulls it away from the body, stabbing into the meat. Taking that hole he inserts the knife inverted blade cutting from the inside outward. He is mirrored at the other victim. Soon as many men as can wedge in side by side are grabbing the tear widening it until the bodies are disgorged.
The digestive acids have not been kind; all the soft tissues of the face have been eaten away, eyelids, eyes, ears, nose and even the lips, all the other exposed flesh suffers chemical burns and appear as so much raw meat.
Choppers evac the victims as best as they are able, but are ill prepared to sustain such critically injured men. It is a small miracle they survive to the hospital in Savannah. (If only a dedicated medical chopper were in our inventory, with iv's, bp/heart rate monitors, etc...)
Grim though their injuries seem, once they are at the hospital their prognosis improves dramatically. 10 years ago they would have been slated for a life as cripples living in freakish misery; that is not their fate today. With the advances spurred on by K-sciences and the organ growth technologies to further the understanding of our alien attackers.
The hospital has been equipped to clone and regrow tissue in days, the black site data and equipment advancing medical science with 3-d printed tissue and the ability to take a cell sample and render them the equivalent of undifferentiated stem cells, now able to be nudge into growing into specialized organs like eyes or olfactory nerves. Reconstruction -will be- expensive, uncomfortable, and a harrowing process but it is within reach. The men will be able to lead long, healthy, productive lives...