Wingman
“Clyde brought the engines to trim and wiggled his flaps. They groaned in response.
Hunter couldn't have found a better crate to pass off as a drug-carrying flying shitbox, he thought.
It was the day after Hunter and Clyde had set the table at the saloon in Ruff Creek. Now, next to the Flying Boxcar sat the Sea Stallion, brought in under the cover of darkness to the stretch of Pennsylvania highway that was 20 miles south of Ruff Creek and now glistening in the predawn light. The 7th Cavalry st...rike force, their breaths like smoke in the cool, spring morning air were dressed in clean, black fatigues. They sat around the big chopper cleaning their weapons and applying charcoal to their faces.
To a man they were in high spirits, if anxious ones. Most of them wanted to get this phase of their mission over with so they could return to Football City, where many had families and loved ones, and fight a more tangible enemy. They had come a long way since riding the JFK over from Europe.
Two jet black Hueys waited next to the Sea Stallion.MoreLess
Hunter couldn't have found a better crate to pass off as a drug-carrying flying shitbox, he thought.
It was the day after Hunter and Clyde had set the table at the saloon in Ruff Creek. Now, next to the Flying Boxcar sat the Sea Stallion, brought in under the cover of darkness to the stretch of Pennsylvania highway that was 20 miles south of Ruff Creek and now glistening in the predawn light. The 7th Cavalry st...rike force, their breaths like smoke in the cool, spring morning air were dressed in clean, black fatigues. They sat around the big chopper cleaning their weapons and applying charcoal to their faces.
To a man they were in high spirits, if anxious ones. Most of them wanted to get this phase of their mission over with so they could return to Football City, where many had families and loved ones, and fight a more tangible enemy. They had come a long way since riding the JFK over from Europe.
Two jet black Hueys waited next to the Sea Stallion.MoreLess
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