Chapter Thirty-Three
Twenty-five minutes after they set off again, the Black Hawk again flew over the water. By forty minutes they sighted the aircraft carrier.
That’s when Daniel told Henderson to send the prearranged signal. The signal that would confirm the previously arranged tour of airbases by the President. The Commander-in-Chief had hastily arranged to offer a personal delivery of pre-Christmas wishes to many of America’s fliers.
A tour that conveniently started with Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma Washington. There, he could land to meet with the Air Force at McChord very publicly, and then quietly cross over to Fort Lewis on the other side of the street; the home of the 4th and 5th battalions of the SOAR 160th, the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
When the
