Chapter 318

At our Friday afternoon meeting we watched the recorded mid-day news clips of the Senate hearings and the news conference. There was a discussion that followed and a bit of gentle ribbing.

"Are you ready to go into politics?" Jenny asked before she started laughing.

"The day I say that I am, you can call the docs and have them commit me to the loony farm," I said as I threw a crumpled piece of paper at her that she promptly threw back. At least she had not lost her sense of humor yet.

Ty Deshields from the agency knocked, then walked in and handed me a folder. I had texted him while I was in Washington and he was delivering me the information I had asked for. "The best one is on the top."

While I was listening to reports I flipped through the documents, blueprints and pictures.

Roseanne's report was on the 30 potential employees for the rapid response team. Twenty five had responded and fifteen of them were landing at BWI Sunday afternoon.

They were to wait in the MAAR lounge until groups of four had assembled then MAAR was to give them directions and send them to the Holiday East Motel in rental cars. The other ten were close enough that they were driving on their own nickel.

They were to be at the office at 0700 Monday to begin the three part process. Interviews, a meeting with the head docs, then our new physicals, the battery of drug test, pay, benefits and job offers were to take the first two days. Then the kick-ass work was to begin.

Then it was Lorrie's turn to layout the meeting. She went over the list of potential hires to fill the pilot gap for Jake's new jet and the four we needed to fill the new chopper request. Luckily there were still plenty of good chopper pilots leaving the military. Jack had the list and was evaluating their records and histories. The real question was were they willing to work in some of the worst paces in the world?

Interestingly enough, the DOD had added JBG as a possible employer in the separation packet given to the pilot's Army, Air Force and Marine pilots. HR had a list to choose from. It was too bad that we did not have F15, F16, F18, C5A, C17, or Cobra Attack choppers; there were plenty of pilots with a boat load of hours in them looking for jobs.

To complicate Monday the SWAT team from Rochester was arriving. Ching Lee and her physical training group were anxious to get them on the training floor.

The shoot don't shoot course had been changed to different silhouettes and sequences incase the first Rochester evaluation group had spilled the beans as to the set up when they were here.

The good news was Jake, Dad and Bob's crews has finished the bullet backstops. Tomorrow I was going to help locate them in the far end of the super hangar in the position I wanted them. The publishing company out on 301 had printed off a thousand body targets and another thousand of smaller X targets for other practice shooting. The printouts were being stored in the armory with all our weapons and ammo.

I was going to take one of the Barrett M107 sniper rifles with a dozen rounds to check out the bullet backstops and make sure they were up to the task at hand.

We were nearly done when Bob finally made it to our meeting. I was beginning to get worried that he was too busy to be involved with my latest project.

While everyone was getting coffee refilled, I ran off copies of the plans I had decided on and passed them out to everyone.

"What am I looking at on these prints?" Bob asked.

"What you are looking at is a copy of the Fort Black Hostage Rescue and Target Control training site. I want you to build me a downsized version of it. They do not need water, pluming, sewage or electric. If electric is needed we will use generators and cords."

"Maybe a dozen buildings close together on each side of a dirt road like a third world town shown in the pictures. Only 4 need 2 floors and they will need block walls because of smoke grenades, flash bangs and possibly training hand grenades will be used. The diagrams here show how to construct the two story block buildings using a maze to direct the blast so the building will be reusable indefinitely."