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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tucson, Arizona, lay at the far corner of her assigned West Pacific region for the National Transportation Safety Board.
It comprised the greatest concentration of military aircraft anywhere in the world. There were over three thousand of them parked in the storage area alone. Hundreds more were associated with the operational side of the busy Air Force base.
Miranda’s approach circled her over acres of mothballed F-4, F-15, and F-16 fighter jets tucked tightly nose-to-tail. Ninety-six B-52 Stratofortress bombers snuggled up beside a hundred and twenty-three KC-135 aerial refueling tankers but no fuel hoses passed between them any longer. A hundred and nine Army Black Hawk helicopters sat beside seventy Navy Sea Stallions and another ninety-six Mar
