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Operation Inner Light : GI Joe vs. The Corps!
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09-15-2016, 01:08 AM
DerStahlhelm
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Here is the first chapter of Operation Inner Light. Please keep in mind while reading that this first chapter is sort of from the perspective of Ted Jones, who is a real piece of shit, and doesn't reflect my actual views on much of anything. It's fiction.
OPERATION INNER LIGHT
Chapter One: New Dawn for America
October 14th, 1984, near Boseman, Montana
Ted Jones walked out onto the porch of his ranch house and drew a deep breath. It was only 4:30, and the morning air had a crisp cold to it that he normally found invigorating. Today however, it wasn't the air that was lifting his spirits, because today was the day he'd truly make his mark on history.
He'd made a fortune - several fortunes in fact - first in beef, then in shipping, and, most recently, in cable television. All that had failed to provide Ted, now approaching his fifty-fifth year, with the sense that he had accomplished anything of true import with his life. He had realized his current life's mission slowly over the last few years. The unrest of the 1960s had given way to outright insurgency. Terrorists and radicals seemed to operate with impunity and gangs were taking over in the urban areas, all funded by robbery, and more importantly, foreign drugs. Add in all the other weird shit that had been happening recently and it was clear that the American way of life was in jeopardy. He had tried other means. He had sponsored initiatives for inner city children and campaigned for increased funding for police and anti-drug programs. He had gone to congress, invited by his few friends there, honorable men trying to keep their heads above the sea of shit they swam in, and railed that something, anything, must be done. He was briefly optimistic that the current president might have had the balls to take action, he could hardly have been worse than the pantywaist that occupied his office previously, but his hopes had been dashed.
He'd worked himself near to death over the years, but he had billions to show for it. He'd been on the cusp of manhood when America had, at long last, crushed that bastard Hitler and brought the japs and krauts to heel. His own father had fought in that conflict as a marine aviator. He'd never served himself, but he'd grown up in the midst of war and always had a love for martial things. His collection of weapons and militaria stretched back to before the revolution. Ted's mother had named him after a cousin of hers, but he had a great affinity for Teddy Roosevelt, perhaps the last real American. When the threat of Spain has loomed over America, Teddy had formed his own volunteer unit and made ready for war.
If no one else was going to do anything, Ted Jones would do it himself.
It his typical fashion, Ted threw himself into his new work. In the past two years he had assembled and equipped a team of fighting men with witch he would finally strike back at America's enemies. He was very conscious of how this effort might be perceived by the public. He didn't want to be lumped in with any of the groups of armed idiots and Nazi loons the media loved to report on - The Order, Strike First, The Watchdogs. Ted didn't have much use for minorities personally, he couldn't abide any sort of laziness or entitlement, but he recruited a veritable rainbow of skilled men. Blacks, Indians (both kinds) and even a few orientals. There would be no room for the media to question his motives.
As Ted looked out from the east, his customary view of the mountains was now obscured, the flat ranch land had sprouted a complex of Quonset huts, dormitories and work shops that was home to his growing force.
Eventually, when all was ready, he called a press conference to officially introduce America to its new protectors. He brought the press and politicians out to his compound. His top men stood behind him on the massive stage he had erected, dressed in crisp new camouflage uniforms and armed to the teeth. A row of shiny new armored personnel carriers and armed jeeps behind that, while his sole attack helicopter circled over head. This was the force that would save America from her enemies, both inside and out, this was The Corps!
But he had not expected what followed. They had laughed at him. Not at the press conference, but after, in the papers and on the television. Those pussies in Washington and their pinko friends in the media had laughed at him! And those that weren't laughing had called for his arrest. His friends in congress had stayed that particular threat at least, empty though it may have been.
That had been four months ago. He'd bided his time, waiting for the opportunity to show what the Corps could do, and it had come. Last week there had been ten overdoses and four murders in Baltimore, all connected to heroin. That heroin had been brought in from the Central American shithole known as Val Verde. The Marxist thugs that controlled the jungle interior had been financing their "revolution" with the sale of drugs for years. The media had made mention of the connection but then shrugged it off. "What can be done?" they'd asked, and then forgotten. But then yesterday those same commie bastards had seized the airport in the port city of San Julio in southern Val Verde. The rebels were holding 30 hostages including twelve "capitalist imperialist Yanquis" and demanding that the Verdean government release all of their political prisoners. And while the President and Congress and the Media wring their hands and debate what to do about a dozen Americans being held in a foreign land, Ted's men and equipment would be setting sail from San Diego by tomorrow morning.
The Corps was on the move.
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