Red Tide by William C. Dietz

Author:William C. Dietz [Dietz, William C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-17T22:00:00+00:00

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Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, USA

The first Simba had been destroyed in the fighting, killing two commandos, and wounding another. Now the surviving Simba was leading the 6x6 trucks west toward the town of Bagao where RIB boats would be waiting to take both the soldiers and the POWs off the beach.

Cat-Four knew that much. What she didn’t, couldn’t, know was what it felt like to be sitting in a truck with a bunch of Australian commandos racing for the west coast of Luzon. Because weird though it might be, she was sitting in a high-backed leather chair, in a secured building on Creech Air Force base in Nevada.

Cat’s job was to fly the drone. Her sensor operator, call sign “Samsonite,” was in charge of monitoring the Reaper’s infrared and night vision sensor systems.

They were seated side-by-side with ten monitors arrayed in front of them and a console in between. Cat’s controls consisted of a keyboard, joystick, and throttle plus switches that controlled everything from transponder codes to flap deployment. It was difficult to master all the technology at first. But after a year of training, plus three months experience, flying the Reaper was second nature.

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