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“You have fifteen hours while this ship steams south. Tonight at dusk we go aloft. We’ll have thirteen hours flat to get it done, so let’s get the helicopters geared up and then sleep.” Major Henderson had summed up the entire briefing with those few words.
John, with Connie at his side, hit the Vengeance where the bird was tied down on the rear deck of the Germantown. Crazy Tim and his fellow chief attacked Viper. He and Connie stripped the training lasers, verified three times that none of the hand weapons on board had the blue-painted stock of training equipment. He knew of more than one time a crew had gone into real battle, and some poor i***t came up with a weapon that couldn’t shoot past a hundred meters and wasn’t lethal even if it could.
They remounted the 20 mm chain gun in
