Reassignment (standard:fantasy, 1398 words)
Author: Alpha43	Added: May 04 2005	Views/Reads: 3468/2197	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
What if you could pick baseball players from any or all generations to form one "All Time Greatest Team". The Military thought they would try the same theory when...

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activities in a dry run. Your individual orders will arrive, you will 
commit them to memory, and then you will be on your own to complete 
your portion of this greatest of all time overthrows and capturings. 
You mostlikly will never have heard of the materials and methods used 
for completion of this raid. 

“Your orders will be in great detail, giving you an itinerary scheduled
right down to the minute, listing names and places you may have never 
heard of. There is no Commanding Officer for this operation, each man 
will be responsible and accountable to himself, your fellow members of 
this mission, and of course, to your country. 

“I will tell you that most of the squad will never see, or be exposed to
any other unit member. There will be approximately 145 men and women 
required to complete this operation, most with less than a 30% chance 
of getting out of this thing alive. I won’t kid you, your specialty, 
even with your expertise in explosives has never been considered a low 
risk assignment, so HQ is giving you less than a 20% survival chance. 

“You will have one slight advantage over the rest of the team members,
you’re not working alone. Because of the massive amount of materials 
that needs to be taken out, namely two 12 story buildings, you’re going 
to work with another explosive expert, a former Army corporal, now a 
civilian. 

“I happen to know that this man is a convicted felon who was scheduled
for execution, but he can exonerate himself by completing this mission, 
and of course, by keeping himself alive. 

“One aspect of your assignment is to watch your partner. He might very
well come up with some wild talk about the U. S. government. He will 
certainly bring up issues that you have never heard of, but don’t let 
that bother you. Do remember he has nothing to lose by fleeing, so if 
you suspect this man is not going to fulfill his portion of the 
operation, you are instructed to eliminate this potential source of 
failure, are we clear about that?” 

Eliminate Sir? 

“Total elimination.” 

Yes Sir. 

“Some of the mission members are waiting outside my office, but before I
introduce them to you and my staff, I want to update you on a few more 
aspects of the mission. 

“First, you can never talk about this operation. Second, there have been
many improvements in explosives and ‘TER’ , timed energy release 
devices since you were last involved. Even though your partner is a 
civilian with no rank, he will instruct. I want you to pay attention to 
this guy when he explains the new techniques and fusing methods. This 
guy can make a bomb out of the goodies found in the average medicine 
cabinet, he is good! Any questions so far?” 

I’m somewhat confused, but please continue Sir. 

“OK. If you demolition people should make it through this mission, we
have a special field guide to lead you both out of the enemy territory, 
understood? This guide may seem like a back woods hick, but he’s the 
best, pay attention to him. 

“Once you are outside the enemy country’s borders, we have an aircraft
lined up to remove all of you from the combat zone. My Aide is about to 
announce your team partners: you, the civilian, your guide, and your 
evacuation specialist, but remember to ignore the guides speech and 
outdated uniform, and don‘t stop to ponder the equipment sent for your 
rescue, just listen to the pilots instructions and move out. You may 
have never seen aircraft like it in the past, but it will do the job 
extremely well. 

You are going to be asked questions by the Military Board, I expect you
to remain at attention, to speak with respect, and only talk in general 
terms about your phase of the mission. Conduct yourself in a military 
fashion at all times, do you understand? Don‘t volunteer any more than 
you... 

“Attention! 

General Schwartzkopf and staff. We have assembled some members of
Operation “Osama Bin Laden. An outline of this mission will be 
forthcoming and Then these participants will be available for some 
brief mission explanations. 

You will be allowed to ask general questions, but specifics detailing
the time. Date, and other orders will not be allowed. 

“To my far left, veteran of the Normandy invasion is Staff Sergeant
Andrew Grenier - demolition. 

“To his right is Sergeant Alvin York – field guide. 

“Next is Former Army Corporal Timothy McVeigh - demolition advisor. 

“and to my immediate left is Brigadier General Charles Elwood “Chuck”
Yeager - Transportation and evacuation Specialist. 

“These troops are just a fraction of the...” 


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