Chapter 312

After wrapping up with the last of the interviews we excused ourselves to the guest quarters under the pretenses of freshening up for dinner – our intent was to VCATS with the whole gang at the office. All the players were there with Queen Jenny and her big baby filled abdomen sitting in my office chair, looking like she owned it with Marcy and Lorrie at her sides. Behind them stood Jason, Renay Reese, Cindy. Ching Lee joined us by remote.

The more I thought about it, we should set up one of the meeting rooms under lock and key for emergencies only and high end executive meetings like this.

"OK we will deal with the bad things first," I announced.

"First off, I heard back from Amy and the General - Amy has confirmed that the bodies will definitely be landing late Tuesday morning at Dover AFB. General McJames has been able to get approval for our C130 and G5 to land at Dover. The casket of Albert Koons will be transferred to the C130 and then be flown to the Lancaster Airport," I stated. I finished that statement with, "I think that will be better than trying to motorcade that far," I said.

I would like the honor guard to meet the C17 when it lands at the base.

"Vicky and I will land at Morton Tuesday morning and will change, then fly to Dover with our honor guard. From there, we go to Lancaster to transfer to the funeral home hearse," I said.

"Ching Lee, the service needs to be on Wednesday if it can be done. Work with the family, the pastor, the funeral home and let me know as soon as it is firm," I said.

"Have you received any information from the VA for Phil Adams yet?" I asked.

"The VA uses Smith's Funeral Home for the burials at the Preston VA cemetery. I have also done a complete search on Phil's family he is the last on his family tree," Jenny said.

"OK, Smith's will need to be there to get the body on Tuesday and they need to plan the service for Thursday," I said.

"On to the order of business, what have you learned about the plane," I asked.

"BJ, have you seen Vance's pictures of the interior of the jet yet?" Marcy asked.

"No, I have not had the chance to check my emails," I replied.

Marcy continued by saying, "the picture of the outside that you sent were great- when we got Vance's pictures of the interior I thought Lorrie was going to have one of Jenny' babies," Marcy said.

"Marcy!" Lorrie uttered.

"As I was saying, Jake fell in love in love with it too - as we all have" Marcy replied.

"Jack looked at the avionics list, they are first rate and apparently there was an upgrade on the jet before it left the factory."

"After Robbie looked over the copied log books from Vance, he called and talked to the representative who he uses for technical support from Gulf Stream. They pulled the complete history on the plane.

"In Gulf Stream's report it states there have been no repairs and the plane has been back to the factory for its annual inspections." Lorrie said.

"Jake is working with Jeanna on the money part. I will have firm numbers later today for you," Marcy said.

Then Marcy commented by saying, "Lorrie wants us to buy it even if Jake does not want it. We are going to be hurting for jets at the end of January and all of February; the vacation rentals are nearly full and that means more flights than we can handle without an additional plane."

"You don't know the half of it yet," I replied.

"Jason, how is the hiring for the 30 going?" I asked.

"Roseanne has made contact with the first 30, and only couple have not responded yet. Those who have will be here on Monday for all the fun, "Jason answered.

"Well, that is good start, but here is another problem. We need to hire another 80; we need a total of one hundred and twenty. Vicky and I had the pleasure of sitting through a meeting with Victor Edmonson and Elmer Hobart – the topic was on yesterday's review of the embassy security audit. The state department has authorized 18 embassies that are in high risk areas, North Africa and the Middle East each get five more contract security personnel from JBG ASAP," I replied. That means we need a grand total of 100 more employees," I said.