Esther's Story: Recon Marine (The United Federation Marine Corps' Lysander Twins Book 2) by Jonathan P. Brazee

Author:Jonathan P. Brazee [Brazee, Jonathan P.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

LUCKY FORTUNE #9

Chapter 24

“Anything?” Esther asked Grayback.

“Nada. Everything’s routine,” the sergeant said.

“OK, I’ve got it. Catch some Z’s.”

Esther settled in behind the P-2001. The passive surveillance console was a nice piece of gear: lightweight, a small footprint, and the ability to monitor 11 different spectrums. It was also very expensive. The Federation was paying 80,000 credits for it, part of an agreement the government had made with Novaset Industries to keep it exclusive to the Federation military and FCDC. The Two-Oh-Oh-One (an awkward nickname, Esther thought) didn’t need a monitor. It could be placed and left alone, and it would function fine. However, even without the issue of security for the team, Esther wanted active eyes on the console to make sure it didn’t walk off while no one was looking. Esther would take a long, long time earning enough to pay it off should someone take a hankering for it.

This was the third time Esther had joined a new unit in the Corps, and this was the third time that she’d deployed within 24 hours after arriving. That had to be some kind of record. She was either the luckiest or unluckiest Marine in the Corps.

On the one hand, Marines hated sitting on their asses. They lived for action, and Esther had experienced that with each live mission. On the other hand, she would have liked to have some time to get to know her unit before being thrust into the fire.

It hadn’t been too bad, this time, though. Bravo Company had deployed as a unit to provide support to a task force consisting of the Sixth Raider Battalion and 1/15, a “normal” infantry battalion. Both Sixth Recon and Sixth Raiders were division assets while 1/15 belonged to the 15th Marine Regiment.

Recon companies rarely deployed as a unit, but the huge expanses on Lucky Fortune #9 required orbital and extensive ground intel gathering. More than that, though, when Lucky Fortune demanded Federation assistance, they got it in spades. The corporation was one of the oldest in the Federation, going back 800 or more years to old China. Now, its reach was galaxy wide, and it was the 34th largest corporation in existence. So when the CEO called up the chairmen to complain about saboteurs on Lucky Fortune #9, the new chairman, just six months on the job, called up the Navy chief of staff and the commandant to take action.

Esther didn’t pay too much attention as to why they were there. Sure, Lucky Fortune had a security force as large as a Marine division, and most of the Marines thought they should be able to handle their own brush fires, but the whys and wherefores of their deployment didn’t matter as much to her as forging a tight platoon. Not being the primary recon unit in the task force had been fine with her. Major Carlstein, the company commander, had assigned Second Platoon to one of the more secure areas, which was fine with her. It was more time to get a feel for her platoon.

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