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Pete was tracking the USS Germantown. She was based out of Sasebo, Japan and the six hundred-foot ship was on the move.
Sasebo, Kadena Air Base, and the mouth of the Qiantang River in China made a neat triangle around five hundred miles on a side.
The Germantown was an LDS—landing dock ship—capable of deploying multiple helicopters and large hovercraft at a moment’s notice. A powerful rapid deployment force. It would appear to any watching Chinese radar that the Germantown was on one of her frequent patrols from Japan down to Taiwan.
Tonight her course would bring her atypically close to shore, though she’d still remain outside both the twelve-mile territorial waters and the twenty-four-mile contiguous waters of China. However, she’d be deep inside the exclusive economic zone of two
