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Operation Inner Light : GI Joe vs. The Corps!
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12-31-2016, 08:33 PM
DerStahlhelm
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Chapter Twelve: The Game
December 6th, 1984, Edgewater, New Jersey
This was the first time in years that Hector Ramirez hadn't gone to work. His producer understood of course, he was still recovering from the attack and now the shock of one of his friends being murdered. He had known Jeffrey Martins since the early 70's, when they'd been a junior reporters, Hector at WABC and Jeff with WPIX.
But that wasn't why he wasn't going in to work. The speculation in the news at the moment was that Jeff's murder was retaliation for the all reporting he'd done earlier in the year about organized crime in the city. The Maggia had not been pleased, and news of that displeasure had filtered through the journalist community over the past months. Ramirez knew better. This had to be Jones. He was sure of it. Jones had sent the same grinning psychopath that had come for him to kill Jeff.
He took another pull from his bottle of scotch. He'd been through half the bottle already, and it was not yet eleven o'clock. He looked over at the wall and and the Peabody Award that hung there. Jeff had been among the few people to encourage him to go after his story about the appalling conditions at that Staten Island sanitarium, and the first to congratulate him when he won. Something snapped in him at that moment. He was going to make Jones pay for this. His friend wouldn't die in vain.
He still had the file that Jeff had given him, detailing Jones' use of his notes and sources, and those of at least a half dozen other GNN journalists, as intelligence for his operations. He would find a way to identify the goon that assaulted him. He'd find a away to connect all of this to Jeff and back to Jones. He was reporter, he'd find the thread he needed to pull to unravel this whole damn thing.
December 10th, Below Ft. Wadsworth, Staten Island, NY
Out of necessity, this briefing had been put off for a couple of days. Hawk had been dealing with the fallout from that debacle down in Florida, as well an incident at the Staten Island Mall. Every domestic incident the team was involved in caused problems for him at the Pentagon, but at least these had not been attributed to the team in the media.
Scarlett started off the briefing with the latest intelligence on Ted Jones' Corps.
"I'll start out with the analysis of the TARPS imagery." Scarlett began. "I think were going to be glad that got those photos ourself, rather than having tasking another unit or agency."
"Why is that?" Hawk asked.
"Because I think that someone in the government is supplying Ted Jones with weapons."
Scarlett advanced the slide machine, calling out important features of the Jones ranch compound: the main house, the new helipad and hangar facilities, and the dormitories, garages, and workshops that the unit required. She stopped at the next slide.
"This is their firing range." The image showed a rat maze of muddy tire tracks, and a row of a half dozen burnt out heavy trucks, separated by a hundred yards of mostly undisturbed snow.
"You can see here that these trucks have been hit with some sort of explosives. Note the charred, snowless area surrounding each one. Referenced with the recent weather reports for snowfall, I can say that these trucks were hit no more than two days before these images were taken." She said as she advanced to the next slide.
"Here you can see the firing line. See these disturbed areas of snow here and here?" the intelligence officer asked motioning her pointer to the spots on the projection.
"This is where antitank rocket launchers were placed. The area just behind that shows where snow has been displaced by the weapon's back blast."
Hawk interrupted. "We know they have at least a few old recoilless rifles, and they could have gotten God knows what from overseas. Jones has the funds."
Scarlett advanced to the next slide, this time a close up of one of the firing positions.
"I took measurements of the depressions in the mud in this area. It corresponds to the tripod footprint of a BGM-71 TOW missile." Scarlett said, advancing the slide yet again. This one the same image, this time with an arial shot of a TOW missile superimposed over it.
"As you may know, there is only one source for this particular anti-tank weapon. The United States government."
December 11, 1984, Josie's Bar, Manhattan
This bar is a real shit hole, Ramirez thought to himself. It had taken him a few days to track this guy down through an intermediary, and he would only agree to meet here.
It was fine. He needed someone who worked security at GNN to help him reconstruct Jeff Martins' last few days, and he couldn't go down there and ask himself.
His guy showed up a few minutes later. He was probably in his late fifties, and thankfully not in his uniform.
"You're him?" The man asked, looking Ramirez over. Apparently satisfied he added, "Yeah, you would be. What can I do for you?"
"I need any security camera footage from the fifth." Ramirez said.
"Why?" The man asked.
"My friend works there. He was murdered. I want to know who did it."
The man scratched his chin. "Martins? I knew him. Nice guy.He was the only TV face that ever acknowledged any of the security guys. Even got us all a real nice fruit basket last Christmas. Guess we won't be getting one this year."
The man paused to ruminate something for a moment, the continued "I'll lose my job if anybody finds out I gave you those tapes."
Hector looked him straight in the eye. He'd been doing this for years and was good at getting people to do what he needed.
"This state has a shield law for confidential sources. I can't be compelled to divulge your identity, even in court. This man was my friend. The truth about his death is not being told. He deserves justice."
The man looked at him like he was chewing on a particularly tough piece of meat.
"Okay, I'll do it."
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