B. J. Jones the Story of My Life Book 3
Copyright© 2021 by jballs
Chapter 62
“I have to go back to Washington, ‘‘ I said. “I have several emergencies,’’ I said as I was dressing. Given the time and the problem, I will not be back tonight. There was knocking on the door, an aide handed Jenny more notes.
The one from Troy, ‘‘necessary staff will be ready to leave in thirty minutes.’ The helicopter had already made one trip to the airport with staff. Myself and the final staff was to go next. I was reading notes and updates the entire trip from the Island and the trip from Andrews. Three hours later I was walking from Marine one to the side door of the white house.
China, India were in a heavy artillery duel, the border that had been quiet for months because of a budding trade relationship was now on fire. As if that were not enough their neighbors were taking sides and noise about joining the fighting.
Pakistan and North Korea were adding nonsense into the fray, the situation was growing worse by the hour. Pakistan, India and China had activated their nuclear weapons and increased the alert level to a two -step protocol. North Korea had followed four hours later.
The two- step protocol meant that two authorizations were all it took to launch missiles. Any misinformation or miscalculation could start a nuclear war that would be unstoppable.
Once multiple missiles were in the air with that short distances of the conflict it would be nearly impossible to stop them.
All the pentagon know -it all’s were to be here in two hours with the latest reports and intel. I was waiting on Frank for the CIA intel and their experts.
I had a big sixty- inch screen in the oval office; I pulled up a map of the region and studied it intensely, trying to familiarize myself with the disputed area where the shelling was going on. Nothing stood out just rough mountainous terrain.
I changed the view to regional view and just looked around. First thing I noticed was that China was moving elements of its navy were leaving the southern south China sea going to the Bay of Bengal that would give them access to most of India. It was a tactic to intimidate and apply pressure for India to back down and end the artillery duel two thousand miles away.
It was interesting timing. When I was in the Philippines and the terrorist groups tried to kill me again; Philippine President Federman Romos and I along with the Intelligence came up with a solution to the territorial problem.
Even though the world court said otherwise China chose to ignore the world court’s ruling saying that a centuries old map said other -wise. China claimed every shoal, every sand bar, even coral beds. We had come up with a solution, to the Chinese claims that every shoal belonged to them.
Multiple countries were involved in the dispute. The hot spots were with the Philippines and Viet Nam. The Philippines had run a destroyer aground on the shoals years ago for their proof of ownership claim. They routine resupplied the men on it. The Chinese interfered with every resupply attempt. The destroyer built at the end of WW2 was disintegrating with age from tides and salt water.
The ship yard had been working on the forms from a set of blue prints, not knowing what they were building. The were completed and already to loaded on ships.
The solution had to be assembled fast and now was the perfect time with the Chinese navy racing hard in the other direction. The solution was a steel framework built out of stainless steel. A big square with a braced adjustable leg on each corner. Similar to a table but just the frame work, heavy enough to take the punishment of the wind and the sea. Light enough to be put in place with heavy lift helicopters.
They were large enough that they would hold three specially modified shipping containers.
The frames and the empty shipping containers could be set in place with a heavy lift helicopter with some of the equipment already on them. Then men and heavy equipment placed on them. There were nine of the frames loaded on barges and twenty -seven of the shipping containers.
Three of the containers were set up with a light weight missile defensive and offensive systems and a small radar station. A much larger doppler radar was planned. One was setup to be cafeteria and several to be bunk houses. Another was to be a power station with generators and solar panels and fuel tanks.
There were holes cut for door- ways so men could travel between the three containers. There were provisions – attachments for gangways to tie all twenty-seven containers together. It was a well-planned and thought out, I figured it would take two days to assemble. Several of our assault landing ships were going to be the base for the helicopters and assembly crews.
The ships and barges carrying all the materials and hardware frames and containers had left the Subic Bay shipyard docks last night and be there tomorrow noon time. I ordered task force 11, one carrier and two more destroyers, two frigates from Guam to head that way in case there was issues that needed to be handled.