One shined his flashlight into the back of the Subaru. The police were looking at the passing cars, but not searching them. Well, the Kevlar's supposed to stop stuff from tearing your skull apart, and the mop we wrap around it breaks up your outline - makes you harder to see in the bush, sir. The Cabbage Patch Hat? The major smiled, his eyes closed. There wasn't much traffic, but here as with every other place in the world where people drove cars, the drivers slowed down to give it all a look. Whoever owned them, somebody didn't like them, Clark saw. A pair of black BMWs were lying on their sides just off the road. A collection of ambulances and police cars was parked on the shoulder while uniformed men appeared and disappeared in the pinkish light from hazard flares. Clark's evaluation was more professional.Įighty minutes later their Subaru had to slow down. Somebody blew the shit out of them, Larson noted. Jungle and tight country is where we work. Regular training rotation for one of our battalions. The best part is I can get the hell outa Dodge right quick if I got to. We deploy as a unit and usually don't lose anybody that way until we come back home. A major sat down next to him after asking permission - Robby was two grades higher. This was what his little brother did for a living. The fighter pilot looked at them with some amusement. Also aboard were sixty or so soldiers with full gear. Robby Jackson had a two-hour layover before boarding the Air Force C-141B, which with its refueling housing looked rather like a green, swept-wing snake. I fly fighter planes when I'm not driving a desk. Serving two-to-three in the Pentagon at the moment. That's why we train, the major concluded. Anyway, the reconnaissance units in particular lost some good ones, and it cost us some. We lost some good people out of some important slots - same with you, right? People rotate in, rotate out, and it takes awhile to get the new ones up to speed.
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