Hunter Legacy 11: Home Is Where the Hero Is by Timothy Ellis

Author:Timothy Ellis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Timothy Ellis
Published: 2016-09-17T17:00:00+00:00

Twenty Eight

I pinged Lacey to come join me. He bounced in a short time later, interrupting my email processing. I waved him to the chair across from me.

"How do you feel about the deserters?" I asked him.

He laughed. I looked at him seriously.

"I have no problem with it, and happen to agree with their logic. The two Camels really do need some support. Besides, the ones going are the ones who have the hardest time with sitting around doing nothing but boring patrols and training. Exploring is in their blood. Let them do what they love, and it helps the AMS people at the same time. Anyway, you never liked any of our people flying Gladiators into combat, so it gets rid of a few of them."

"True enough. What do we do with the squadrons? I hear we're losing a Squadron Leader?"

"I'm not worried. For now, I'll tack the remainders on other squadrons. When we get some new pilots, I'll reorganize to spread the rookies around. And there are a couple of lads ready for promotion."

"Speaking of rookies, I told Jane they could do boot camp with the marine recruits. We won't separate them until they're ready for pilot stuff. Better think about what you need for training purposes, and have Jane provide it in a separate area of the boot camp. When the marines start in on purely marine stuff, the pilots can begin pre-flight instruction. But they bunk together until they finish what BA considers a full camp. I don’t want any marines verses pilot shit going on. They're all Hunter recruits, until they earn rank, and formally join a unit."

"Wouldn’t have it any other way sir."

"I told Annabelle to have BA look out for potential officers. But the pilots will be officers, so there'll need to be an officer training component to this boot camp anyway. Talk to Annabelle and BA about it, and have Jane supply whatever you need."

"Will do."

"While you’re here, I'd like you to think about something over the next week or so."

"Anything."

"I told you you'd end up flying a Carrier." He cringed. "What we have isn’t adequate. BigMother makes a good Command Carrier for the role we've had to date, but if we have to fight a protracted war, she doesn’t carry enough fighters." He nodded. "Hell, I don’t think the American Carriers are big enough either."

The Yorktown and Lexington were the biggest ships I'd seen to date, bigger even than the British Battleships, excluding the three original Explorer ships.

"I agree sir. In a war, we need to get a lot more fighters into a combat zone than we can now. But is it possible to build a bigger carrier than Yorktown?"

"Anything is possible. I have some ideas of my own for custom designed Dreadnaughts. The ones being assembled now are just reconstituted Battleships. We need to think outside the box, and really come up with completely new designs. There is only so far we can adapt the current designs, and most of them predate leaving Earth.

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