Wilco- Lone Wolf 10 by Geoff Wolak

Author:Geoff Wolak
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

Captain Hamble made his sketches, we debated them, and he made a plan, also debated. He had a free rein to use any and all men, but selected only eight – and wanted to use of our remaining folding stock AK47s on the breach. Myself and Moran would sit this one out.

An hour after dark, as the kidnapper’s food jeep approach, Nicholson and Tomo went over the back wall. Swann and Leggit were two hundred yards from the front, the front covered team as well as the approach road.

In a change of plan, but not a change that Hamble had approved, Tomo found just one guard, shot him with a silenced round, walked past the hostages whilst offering a cheeky smile, shot dead the two guards carrying the food, stepped out and shot up the jeep driver. It was all over, Hamble rushing in with the breach team.

I walked down with Moran, the hostages chatting to the lads and grateful, soon being led out as we borrowed the gunmen’s jeep to drive the hostages back to the small camp. Our lone surviving truck had been called for and was now parked over the ridge, the remaining lads mounting up, some taking the piss out of the plan.

Back at the small base, hostages now sat in the cafe and being fed, Hamble wanted a word with me and Moran. We stepped away.

‘Tomo broke my orders,’ he began.

‘Not really, and I won’t be bollocking him,’ I responded. ‘Sometimes we assume there are ten bad boys all dug in, a difficult breach, and it turns out to be one idiot asleep in a chair. He saw that, he dealt with the man, we go home and move on, no dick measuring.’

‘It’s not about dick measuring,’ Hamble insisted. ‘It’s about following orders and following the plan.’

‘Despite Tomo’s attitude, he’s never let me down or failed to follow an order on a job. If he had he’d be gone. I’ve been on rescues where they turned out to be easy, intel wrong. We wrap it up, get a good headline, go home, next job. There’s plenty of time for you to test yourself, and to get your head blown off, so don’t be in a rush.’

Moran put in, ‘I’m thankful it was simple, no one hurt. We see a lot of these, and someday soon we’ll see some of our lads killed. I’m happy enough, and next week we may have another on – a hidden minefield around the hostages.’

I told Hamble, ‘Stop worrying about it, move on, that’s an order – if you wish to keep doing this, Captain. Moran would have called Tomo a few names with a smile, slapped him on the back and thought about some friend chicken. Have a think about how Tomo made you feel, compared to Moran here.’

I stepped away, called SIS and left a sitrep. That was followed by a call in to Thornton, some transport asked for, a coach for the hostages, doctor to be on it, Niger police to get here.

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