President Partisan : A Black Autumn Saga. Sequel to The Last Air Force One. by Jeff Kirkham & Jason Ross

Author:Jeff Kirkham & Jason Ross [Kirkham, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ReadyMan Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-10-11T22:00:00+00:00

Teddy thought of his team—Operational Detachment Alpha 331–as being out of harm’s way. Their mission was to hose down the house where the gangbangers slept, and they were to do it from four hundred yards away across a plowed field. They’d be a quarter mile from the bad guys, almost like a bomber dropping ordnance on the enemy. But now, as they emerged from the tree line and onto the open field, he felt naked as a sleepwalker at church.

The men of ODA 331 set up their machine guns along a hundred yard line, extending north to south. When the moment came, they’d pour several thousand rounds into the sleeping farmhouse. It was visible across the field—a blocky cluster of shadows in their NVGs. When they first arrived, they painted the place with a dozen IR lasers, then they clicked them off and waited in the wet dirt and patchy snow.

Teddy took a moment to ask God for forgiveness for what they were about to do. The men in that structure would come awake in the maw of hell. There was a possibility that there were innocents inside. Locals might spend the night with the gangbangers, willingly or not. But it couldn’t be helped. If Teddy and his friends were to save the region from a nuclear attack, this was one of the prices they’d have to pay. People were going to get in their way, and those people needed to be removed.

“Ten minute warning,” Teddy’s earbud crackled. On the mark, five miles away, mortar rounds began hitting the downriver bridge with a muted thump and thunder. Teddy hoped it didn’t wake the sleeping criminals.

The shade of green in his night vision goggles flickered. Teddy scanned and found a starburst of artificial light coming from a house atop a knoll to the south of their position. A dog bark drifted across the field. The house on the hill was even farther away than the farmhouse but it was on their flank. Nobody had said anything in the recon report about a house with a solar-powered floodlight. To Teddy’s eye, it looked like a serious problem. There weren’t supposed to be any gangbangers outside the two locations they’d scouted: the bridge and the farmhouse. The few homes on the escarpment over the river shouldn’t be threats, but the light and the barking dog were fast becoming a concern. Anyone on guard duty at the farmhouse would see the light and hear the dog.

“Handle that!” Sergeant Terstadt hissed at Teddy.

He and Terstadt were on the far end of the firing line. Their 240 machine gun was mounted on a tripod with two cases of belted ammunition beside it. Terstadt’s primary job was the big gun. Teddy was the obvious guy to handle loose ends.

“What do I do?” he flipped up his NVGs and whispered back.

“Work the problem,” Turd Sack rasped. “And don’t get in front of our firing line.”

Teddy and Terstadt were closest to the house on the hill. Nobody else was going to handle it.

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