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Operation Inner Light : GI Joe vs. The Corps!
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09-15-2016, 06:33 PM
DerStahlhelm
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Val Verde
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Chapter Two: Arrival
October 17, 1984, San Julio, Val Verde
"Tracker" Tom Cody was exhausted. Three hours from Bozeman to Los Angeles. Seven hours from LA to Panama City. Then most of a day on a fishing boat up the pacific coast to San Julio. He couldn't sleep on the plane and the motion of the little fishing boat had left him surprisingly nauseous. Tom had never been to Val Verde. In fact he'd never been much anywhere out of Montana. Canada didn't count, he'd been kicked out of the Army before he got to go anywhere interesting, and his three years in California had been mostly inside a federal lock up. He considered himself pretty tough. His dad had split when he was eight and he'd taken care of himself, his Ma, and his sisters as well as he could. He'd taught himself to hunt and fish, and by the time he was sixteen he was earning a living hiring himself out a guide to hunters. The army was a cake walk in comparison. His post Army career as a criminal had toughened him up even more before an armed robbery had landed him in prison. But he was bone weary right now, and he figured it was still a ten mile walk from where the boat had dropped him and his three team mates to San Julio proper, where there first order of business was to procure a car. Then somewhere to hole up until the three days until they were needed. Then, maybe some sleep.
A few hours later, Tom was crouched in a wooded area just outside of the city. It was his duty, his and Johns, that is, to guard the gear, while Sarge and Shark went to purchase a vehicle, since neither of them spoke Spanish. He glanced over at John Eagle. He thought it would be nice to have another 'Skin on this mission, but John was fairly distant. The dude was a tough motherfucker, no joke, having been in the army special forces before joining the Corps, but he played the stoic Indian role a little too well.
They were close to the road, but out of sight, and soon enough a rusty white van pulled up. Tom tensed up a little bit until he saw it was Sarge behind the wheel.
"C'mon you two, let's get this shit loaded. Shark's getting us hooked up with a room. If we're lucky, we might be able to grab some sleep and some chow before we start working." Sarge said. He was some sort of Latino, big, over 6 feet and with a full beard.
The men loaded the pile of packs and duffles into the back of the van and hopped in. The van headed onto the road.
The Avenida Bolivar was the main highway in this area and ran up the coast into the city of San Julio. It sprouted another highway, the Avenida Asuncion, east at a 50 degree angle, right at the Puerta de Bolivar, the city's main harbor. Tucked into the point of this open ended triangle was San Julio international airport, southern Val Verde's only major airport, and current headquarters of the local branch of the Verdean Worker's Front.
"That's the port over there." said Sarge, nodding to left almost imperceptibly as he eased the van right onto Avenida Ascuncion. The airport needed no such indication. A chain link fence ran the length of the left hand side of the highway,and on the other side of it was a hundred yard wide strip of grass, then the runway and then the terminal beyond. The terminal building was of a modern design, having only been built about twelve years ago, with a huge glassed in front.
"The Airport is still technically open, but I don't think any carriers are willing to fly out of there now. The Cubans made a big deal of sending a planeload of medical supplies in yesterday, but that's supposedly been the only air traffic since the rebels seized it."
"So, what, we can just walk right in and check the place out then?" Tom said.
" Nah, I wouldn't try it." Sarge replied, nodding slightly again, this time to the main gate coming up on the left just now."
The gate had a makeshift roadblock set up, manned by rebel guerrillas with a few jeeps and civilian pickups.
"Looks like light vehicles only, at least at the gate." John Eagle assessed. "Mostly G-3s and AKs. I don't see anything mounted that's heavier than a .30 cal."
Tom, however, was now looking out the right side of the van.
"Hey, man, that looks like some sort of mall or something."
A huge shopping center, evidence of San Julio's more prosperous past, stood on the other side of the highway, directly across from the terminal building.
"That's a few stories higher than the airport building. If we could get somebody up there with that big camera lens, with all those windows on the airport we oughta be able to scope out that whole place, maybe figure out exactly where their keeping those hostages." Tom continued.
"I think that's a good idea." Sarge agreed, turning left off the highway and onto a city street.
The streets were busy with vehicle and foot traffic. This was apparently a commercial district, the low white washed buildings seemed to house mostly shops and cafes under their tile roofs. The van's speed slowed as San Julio's streets filled with people conducting their morning business. They continued a few more blocks until Sarge saw Shark standing on the corner waiting. He maneuvered the van to the shoulder and Shark hopped in.
Shark was Latin as well, but shorter than the rest, dark complected, and with thick, black hair. "I got us a room at a little boarding house. Two blocks up and to the right. Land lady's happy to have us, business is shit right now. I told her we were on business down south and we were supposed to catch a flight here tonight, but obviously we are stuck until our company figures out how to get us home. Right up here, man." Shark gestured to indicate the building. "Doesn't seem to be a lot of rebel activity in this area, its mostly business as usual."
The van parked on the street opposite the boarding house and the men began unloading their gear, all civilian backpacks and duffel bags, and bringing them up to the second floor room.
Sarge dropped his bag on the floor of the room and sat on one of the rooms two bed.
"Secure your shit and get some rest. We've got four hours of rack time until we go to work."
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