Under fire by W. E. B. Griffin

Author:W. E. B. Griffin [Griffin, W. E. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: War stories, Historical fiction, Fiction, United States, United States - History; Military - 20th century, Historical, War & Military, Fiction - Men's Adventure, General, History; Military, 20th century, Marine Corps, Historical - General, United States., Korean War; 1950-1953, Thrillers
ISBN: 9780399147883
Publisher: Jove Books
Published: 2002-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

"They're not Marines?"

"They're Marines, and they're CIA. If you really want to know what's going on here, you ought to encrypt their re-ports yourself."

"Interesting."

Keller decided he would do just that.

[TWO]

PIER THREE

PUSAN, KOREA

0805 2 AUGUST 1950

Captain McCoy found Brigadier General Edward A. Craig, USMC-in utilities, sitting in a U.S. Army Jeep that he was apparently driving himself-on the wharf, looking more than a little unhappy as he watched the USS George Clymer (APA-27) being tied up, her rails lined with utilities-clad Marines acting for all the world as if they were being docked at a liberty port.

McCoy and Zimmerman got out of their "borrowed" U.S. Army Jeep-the lettering on the bumpers of which identified it as belonging to Fox Company, 21st Infantry- and approached Craig's Jeep. Craig heard them coming and looked over his shoulder.

McCoy and Zimmerman saluted.

"Good morning, sir," McCoy said.

Craig returned the salute.

"You two look like you need a bath," he said.

"We were up at Taejon, sir," McCoy said. "We wanted to see this," he gestured at the Clymer and the USS Pickaway (APA-222), another attack transport, which was tying up farther down the pier, "and there's something else...."

`Take a good look at those happy tourists, McCoy," General Craig said, a little bitterly. "Would you suspect that I sent them a radio ordering that ammo be issued and they debark prepared to fight?"

McCoy was trying to frame a reply to that when Zim-merman laughed, and said, "Jesus, will you look at that!"

A military unit was marching down the pier, between the warehouses and the ships. There was a color guard, in mussed and baggy khakis, carrying the flags of the United States, Korea, and the United Nations. Marching behind them, in U.S. Army fatigues, was a Korean Army military band, playing what could have been-and then, on the other hand, might not have been-the Marine Hymn.

General Craig smiled.

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