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The woman, so talented at disappearing, was suddenly everywhere. In the mess eating with the Majors—like there was a repulser shield, he couldn’t even step into the Mess Hall when she was there. Out working with the Raytheon crew, helping run orientation for the class that included Archie and Kee. When John finally gave up and went for a run that afternoon, he spotted the small figure sitting against the fence on the far side of Nightstalker Way. He could feel her track him as he looped out and around the airfield.
When the C-17 showed up with their helicopters, they all loaded aboard.
Major Beale stopped him at the foot of the ramp until everyone had moved past them. They started cranking up the engines, and still he and the major remained, despite the C-17’s loadmaster shuffling fr
