3/3/2023 0 Comments Universe sandbox 2 modsWell, the Kevlar's supposed to stop stuff from tearing your skull apart, and the mop we wrap around it breaks up your outline - makes you harder to see in the bush, sir. The Cabbage Patch Hat? The major smiled, his eyes closed. That's why we train, the major concluded. Anyway, the reconnaissance units in particular lost some good ones, and it cost us some. We lost some good people out of some important slots - same with you, right? People rotate in, rotate out, and it takes awhile to get the new ones up to speed. How fast can you get a line on what happened here? You don't 'suppose' very often in this business. The big, fast one? Somebody with big-time money, then. You know, my brother wears one of these things. Must be nice to do all your work sitting down, the major observed. Is it that bad? My brother told me he lost a really good - squad leader? Anyway, is it that big a deal? Had the gang war he'd hoped to start already begun? Clark took that in and did some supposing. There were some curious things there, but not the right size and shape to be machine guns. One shined his flashlight into the back of the Subaru. The police were looking at the passing cars, but not searching them. We got a carrier group operating offshore. There wasn't much traffic, but here as with every other place in the world where people drove cars, the drivers slowed down to give it all a look. Whoever owned them, somebody didn't like them, Clark saw. A pair of black BMWs were lying on their sides just off the road. A collection of ambulances and police cars was parked on the shoulder while uniformed men appeared and disappeared in the pinkish light from hazard flares. Eighty minutes later their Subaru had to slow down.
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