Delta Solution by Patrick Robinson

Author:Patrick Robinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ADMIRAL CARLOW and Commander Bedford flew back to Coronado that afternoon. They travelled mostly in silence, which made it pretty quiet on the Navy P-3C jet since they were the only passengers. Each of them had a lot on his mind.

Andy Carlow understood the danger of the forthcoming mission, and he, perhaps more than everyone else who had attended the meetings at the Pentagon, was unnerved by the sheer scale of the pirates’ arsenal.

He dozed fitfully, and when he jolted awake, he was always thinking the same thing: RPG7s, armor-piercing, tank-busting, antiaircraft guns, big, new, night sights, Jesus Christ! Unthinkable thoughts surged through his mind: What if the guys all got killed? What if Mack died in the action? What if it was the biggest SEAL disaster since June 2005 in the Hindu Bush? There would be a media uproar, and he would undoubtedly get the blame.

Carlow didn’t give a damn about that. It was only that he would have to live with it. The admiral knew the surviving SEAL from the Hindu Bush, Marcus Luttrell, one of the all-time great SEAL warriors. Carlow knew and admired him, but there was a sadness in Marcus’s eyes that did not go away.

In the front of Luttrell’s book, Lone Survivor, he wrote: “There is no waking hour when I do not remember them all with the deepest affection and the most profound, heartbreaking sadness.”

Andy understood that would be his fate as well, if anything happened to the guys. And, let’s face it, under his command, they were headed into the jaws of death against a brilliantly armed enemy.

Mack, too, was alone with his thoughts. The CIA report of the strength of the pirates had interested him but not to the extent it had engaged Admiral Carlow. Mack’s equations involved people because that was his world, being one of a team of people, warriors, who took on other people. Essentially they had the same or similar weapons.

It was the people, their strength, training, fitness, endurance, skill, courage, and speed that swayed the battle. An English admiral had once told him that victory usually depends on the mind of the commander. Darned thoughtful that. Because it does. The winner is always the guy who outthinks, outfights, and will not give up. The quality of the weapons used is a factor. But not THE factor.

If there was a principal factor, it was that of the surprise attack, the pure shock of the enemy turning around and coming face to face with a half dozen of my guys, most of them huge men with black camouflage cream on their faces, wearing their green-and-brown bandanas, the drive-on rags, and holding machine guns and shouting.

Mack had seen the toughest looking Islamic cutthroats quake with fear at the mere sight of Navy SEALs coming through their front door with the aid of a sledgehammer and large hunk of high explosive. The technique is pure intimidation plus speed.

Sitting up at 30,000 feet flying over the great state of Missouri, Mack told himself over and over: I never saw anyone who could outgun us.

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