50 Again they were waiting. Tim had thought he was crazy before this, but it was most of what they did in Special Operations Forces—except in the two Southwest Asia wars. Train and wait. At the moment, the Black Adders team wasn’t training. The eight of them were sitting around Fort Rucker, waiting for the mission go. On a lot of Special Operations Forces missions the go never happened. This probably wasn’t one of those. It wasn’t an if, more of a when. Normally a SOAR flier only returned to Rucker for one of two reasons, either you were gonna go ACE or have a heart-ATTC. Either you were shipped to the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence for more training, or to the US Army Aviation Technical Test Center when helping test new gear. SOAR fliers were often here for both. Which, again,