Chopper Ops
“It was now 0630 hours. The fuel chopper was so overdue, the unit had given up on it.
What had happened to the Pumper? There was no way of knowing. The unit had no means of getting the Hook on the radio or of getting a message sent by the fuel chopper back to them.
But an even larger problem had arisen.
By an incredible stroke of bad luck, there had been a traffic accident on the one section of the desolate highway that ran closest to the mouth of the cave on Ka-el. It had happened about an hour... after the fuel chopper left. A large truck carrying some kind of liquid had flipped over on the curve, completely blocking the roadway not a half mile from the base of the mountain.
The screech of the truck's brakes had nearly deafened the Marines monitoring the listening devices along the cliff's edge. Immediately turning their NightScopes oh the wreck, they saw the driver stumble from his smashed cab and collapse on the side of the road. The Marines simply couldn't believe it. The first vehicle of any type to travel the highway since the unit reached the cave had crashed just a sneeze's length away from their hideout.MoreLess
What had happened to the Pumper? There was no way of knowing. The unit had no means of getting the Hook on the radio or of getting a message sent by the fuel chopper back to them.
But an even larger problem had arisen.
By an incredible stroke of bad luck, there had been a traffic accident on the one section of the desolate highway that ran closest to the mouth of the cave on Ka-el. It had happened about an hour... after the fuel chopper left. A large truck carrying some kind of liquid had flipped over on the curve, completely blocking the roadway not a half mile from the base of the mountain.
The screech of the truck's brakes had nearly deafened the Marines monitoring the listening devices along the cliff's edge. Immediately turning their NightScopes oh the wreck, they saw the driver stumble from his smashed cab and collapse on the side of the road. The Marines simply couldn't believe it. The first vehicle of any type to travel the highway since the unit reached the cave had crashed just a sneeze's length away from their hideout.MoreLess
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