Chapter 1 part 2 “the briefing”
At 06:00 hours an alarm goes off for a few seconds before hawk’s voice says over the intercom “good morning Joes” a second alarm goes off “green shirts please report to the briefing hall for your training assignment” after a brief pause “everyone else just report for your assigned duties, thank you.”
In the briefing hall
“okay green-shirts” hawk says “first I want you all to meet Shadow, he is a ninja” “he might be a green-shirt himself but he was trained by snake-eyes and snake-eyes told me right after cobra returned he wanted shadow to work with alpha unit because he was the best in his dojo”
“Now I will give you your training assign that you will be starting tomorrow at 05:00 sharp you will wake up eat then get to training here is your assignments”
“First, Shadow and helix, both of you will be in the sparing ring to practice your close quarter combat with snake-eyes”
“Tomahawk you will be running flight maneuvers in the ghost hawk Delta with lift-ticket and his Ghost Hawk alpha”
“Sheriff you will be working with law today as he will show you our procedures”
“Dial-tone you will be training today with mainframe as he shows you our system here at the mobile pit”
“No-Show you are going to work with beachhead and he WILL be drilling you hard, but first you’re going to run on foot over to the mountains”
“Shark you’ll be working with wet-suit on you will go with Clutch to the nearby lake and then he and Night Fox you will run their exercises in the desert with Clutch after he drops shark and wet suit”
“Low-Tide you will be working with deep-six also over at the lake but out in different area than Shark and wet-suit”
“Kick-Start you will be working with thunder on your targeting system out in the desert on some barrels”
“Ice-Pick you will be working with snow-job today in the mountain and he will meet you up there and wild-bill will take you up there in the dragon hawk”
"repeater you will be working with roadblock on the target range with laying down effective cover"
“okay green shirts, get used to bases lay out today, here are some maps”
Hands outs maps to the group “and here are the maps for tomorrow of your training areas” Hawk picks up a small stack of white envelopes.
Hawk walks over and stands right in front of dial-tone. “dial-tone here is a map where I marked where you will meet mainframe tomorrow” and then hands dial-tone a white envelope marked with her code name on it.
Then he takes a few steps over again. “Ice-pick, here is your maps one that has the route to helipad where you will meet wild-bill, and the other is a map of the area where your training will take place” then hands ice-pick another white envelope marked with his code name on it.
Then hawk takes a few steps over again. “Tomahawk here is your map to where you will meet lift-ticket and some diagrams of the maneuvers you will be doing there many one that you might be doing” hands tomahawk a thicker white envelope marked with his code name on it.
Then he takes a few more steps over again. “Low-Tide, here are your maps and diagrams of what deep-six is going to have you doing in the water and in the air” then he hands him a thick envelope that has is code name on it.
Then he takes a few more steps over again. “helix and shadow, both of you will meet Snake Eyes here tomorrow and helix just so you know snake eyes is a mute” and he hands them each them a thin white envelope with their respective codenames on them
Then he takes a few more steps over again. “Sheriff, Law will meet you in the mess hall after he gets his dog Order, and here is a map where I have marked the mess hall” and he hands him a thin white envelope that has his codename on it
Then he takes a few more steps over again. “No-show you will meet beach-head in the small motor pool here in the MPIT and he will give you further instruction”
then he takes a few more steps over "repeater you will meet roadblock outside near the targets and here is a map to where you will meet up with Roadblock tomorrow"
Then he takes a few more steps over again. “lastly, desert fox you will meet up with clutch in the motor yard and you two will run some desert runs and the diagrams are in this last envelope” and hawk hands him a the last and the thickest white envelope that has his codename on it.
“Dismissed, report to your assigned locations tomorrow and the rest of today learn the lay out okay”
“YES SIR” the group says in unison.
