Dark Grid by David C. Waldron

Author:David C. Waldron
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 1468079158
Published: 2011-12-10T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Wilson took a few minutes to organize the invoices by type of vehicle and inventory, and put together a parking list which he radioed to the AA. The truckers didn’t maintain radio silence by any stretch of the imagination, but unless there was some incredibly inventive and complex code being used, they also weren’t trying to tell anyone where they were going.

The side road that had originally been crushed into existence by the Army vehicles and then re-graded once they’d gotten the bulldozer wasn’t exactly ‘smooth’, but it was smooth enough; and the truckers who’d previously been to the park were impressed with the road that hadn’t been there a week before. After about a mile, as the road didn’t lead straight into the encampment, they pulled into the new parking lot.

Ramirez had outdone himself with the parking, as he had with everything else so far. There were a total of sixty-five parking spots for semis with up to 53’ trailers, including a turn-around area. There were fifty spots for smaller military vehicles, like the Humvees and LAVs. There were one-hundred and fifty spots for larger military vehicles, like the 5 and 7 tons, and the towed artillery, and there were over five-hundred civilian-vehicle-sized parking spots. There were even parking lines on the ground. All of that had been done, in addition to everything else in the encampment, in three days.

Tim had to say something over the air about the parking lot, “I’ve been driving for almost twenty years, and I’ve been in dives and established truck stops from Chicago to Dallas, from San Francisco to New York. I have to say, this is a a far cry above many, and the equal of most. My compliments to the crew who put this lot together and especially on what had to be short notice.”

There was a chorus of ‘Amen’ and ‘You said it’ when he was done. Ramirez, to his credit, who was in fact listening, kept his finger off the transmit button and his mouth shut. After all, he did feel a certain completely understandable sense of pride as his boys had done a pretty amazing job.

It still took almost twenty minutes to get everyone into what were essentially assigned parking spaces. They didn’t want all the fuel trucks next to each other, for obvious tactical reasons--some habits were hard to break. And based on the invoices that had been handed over to Halstead at the beginning, they had decided to put some of the trucks closer to the camp than others simply to ease unloading.

By the time they were finished parking, word had gotten around that the trucks had arrived and Eric had made his way over to where Tim was talking to Sergeant Halstead. Tim noticed Eric after a few seconds and held out his hand. “Good to see you again, Eric. How’s the Op-Sec training coming?”

“Nice, thanks, really appreciate that,” Eric laughed. “How’re things going with you?”

“Well, good, I think. Looks like things are shaping up nicely here.

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