Operation Zulu by Ernest Dempsey

Author:Ernest Dempsey [Dempsey, Ernest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 138 Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14

Jessica stuffed a rucksack with magazines that would fit her 9mm SIG Sauer. She also added a couple of mags loaded with 5.56 NATO rounds for her AR15. She enjoyed building her weapons, and that particular framework was one of her favorites. Named after the Armalite platform, the AR15 setup was easy to put together and completely customizable, allowing for various kinds of barrel upgrades, attachments, even suppressors. The current silencer attached to the end of the barrel was a short one, forged by Dawn of Defense in Northwest Georgia. Their cans were extremely effective and cut down the sound of a gun’s report to nothing more than a click. She’d used lots of suppressors in her day, but the ones she liked the best were from DOD, which she thought was a funny choice of business name since it corresponded with the Department of Defense. Maybe the founders had done that intentionally.

She stuffed one more small silencer in her bag to attach to her pistol and then placed two bottles of water in the side pouches.

Gary stepped back into the room. He’d been gone for fifteen minutes and now was donning his winter gear. He wore a heavy coat, thick pants, and combat boots. The big clothes hung loosely off his wiry frame, making him look a little out of place in the outfit.

“What are you doing?” Jessica asked.

He pulled a pistol out of the holster tucked under the flap of his overcoat and pulled the slide. If he didn’t look so goofy, he might have seemed pretty tough, but he did look goofy. Exceedingly so. He nearly dropped the weapon on the hard floor, narrowly catching it by the trigger guard so that it dangled between his fingers. She was more than a little afraid he might accidentally discharge the weapon right there in the base, potentially shooting her in the process.

“Sorry,” he said. “Just, you know, getting ready.”

“Maybe you should stay here, monitor things from above.”

“No way,” he shook his head. “Those are my friends out there. I have to help them. And if there are more than…you know, a few bad guys along the way, you might need my help.”

She appreciated the sentiment, though she didn’t understand exactly what help he was going to lend. He was about as useful in a field mission as a pair of white gloves at a ketchup factory. She didn’t need to know the guy’s life story to come to that conclusion.

“Look, Gary, I appreciate the offer, but I can move faster if I’m on my own.”

“And I would feel horrible if anything happened to you. I can’t just sit here staring at a computer screen while you’re out there in the middle-of-nowhere Afghanistan with who knows who coming after you.”

She sighed. There was going to be no getting around this. Gary wasn’t going to take no for an answer. She was going to have to let him tag along. Hopefully, things wouldn’t get too hairy out there, then again, she didn’t get her hopes up.

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