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This week's chapters open with both Teams doing what they consider fun: attacking different parts of the headquarters camp and causing confusion and loss of sleep.
A short time after returning from the field, they learn that their unit will be deployed to the planet Parthas in two weeks or so. This causes them to reevaluate what they will require to operate 24/7. The briefing on Parthas and their deployment there is very unsatisfactory leaving many unanswered questions. Three days later, a new Team arrives to join them to add a few surprises. They are quickly integrated into the unit.
Changes and new missions are not unusual in the Military. However the unanswered questions and what was left out of the briefing will become a major factor later in the story. I remember as a First Sergeant at Ft. Benning, that we were assigned to support another unit on a mission. The mission and the support requirements changes substantially four times during the course of an hour and a half or so before the mission was scrubbed. It left everyone worn out.
Enjoy these chapters. More next week.
I wish all of my readers and everyone at Stories On Line the Very Merriest and Safest of Christmases.
Keep Well,
uncle jim