Seal Team Seven 6 - Battleground by Keith Douglass

Author:Keith Douglass [Keith Douglass]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The sixteen SEALs of the Third Platoon sat and stood around the big table in their assembly area. Several desert cammi shirts had been unbuttoned and sleeves rolled up in the warm room. The air conditioner kept blasting away, but it was no match for the sullen heat of the near-equatorial spring.

"Hell, yes, we could go in with three hundred Marines from the amphib and smother the place, but we don't need them," Magic Brown said. "How many of you been on a frigate before?"

Every hand but one went up.

"So, we know something about the craft. Them shitkickers on board are Army dudes, for gawd's sake."

"Yeah, Magic, but they been there for three--four--days," Bishop said. "They ain't stupid. They must know now, somebody will be calling."

"That's why I say a quick hit with grappling hooks on both ends of the ship and the pier just after dark, and we've got the surprise element going for us. We could have half the bastards dead before they knew we were there."

"Use the silencers on everything including the Mark 23 pistols?" DeWitt asked.

"Damn right," Magic said. "We won't even need the sniper rifles or the MGs. Leave them on the ship. All of us with silenced weapons, we go in and do them."

Murdock stood. "We've heard most of the arguments by nOW. I agree, we don't need the Marines off that amphib. We need to go in silently. The ship is about a klick, maybe a klick and a half from that inlet we were in yesterday. How do we get there?"

"Not the damned air cushions," Fernandez said. "Too fucking noisy."

"Any Special Boat Squadron runners on this task force?" Jaybird Sterling asked. "We could use two of those new ten-meter RIBS. They do forty knots, and could get us in fast to within a klick. Then we swim in from there for a silent attack."

"We'll find out about the RIBS, Jaybird," Murdock said.

"I still like the IBSS," Nicholson said. "Hell, we can get eighteen knots out of them moving in, then cut it to five, and be on top of the damn Kenyan motherfuckers before they know what hit them."

"We brought four IBSS, so we still have two," DeWitt said.

Don Stroh came into the room, and everyone fell quiet.

"Hey, don't let me stop you. As you were, as you Navy guys say. I'm slumming."

Ed DeWitt went over to him and they talked a minute. Then Don left the room.

"He's going to check on the RIBS," DeWitt said. "He'll shake them loose if anyone has any. Twenty warships out here, should be some of them somewhere."

Murdock resumed the discussion. "Okay, so we're on-site. We stick with the silenced weapons?"

Most of the men nodded.

"Damn right," Ronson said.

Murdock squinted a moment at some notes on the table. "The ship is tied up, so we don't need to worry about the bridge, the engine room, or the main control room. We just have to root out the fucking rangers. How?"

"We start at the top and work down to the weather deck; then we take them one deck at a time," Ken Ching said.

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