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Shaw exhaled a lungful of sland, the Pri up a scrap of paper?"

"That scrap of paper is more important than you'll ever know"

"For what it's going to cost us in blood and sweat, it'd daroused Caldweiler

A small convoy of armored personnel carriers rolled to a stop An officer in battle dress leaped from the lead vehicle and shouted an order A strearound and began asse in squads

The officer, who had an eye for authority, walked straight up to the admiral

"Admiral Sandecker?"

Sandecker fairly beanition "At your service"

"Lieutenant Sanchez" The arm snapped in a salute "Third Marine Force Reconnaissance"

"Glad to see you" Sandecker returned the salute

"My orders were unclear as to our deployment"

"How many men do you have?"

"Three squads Forty including myself"

"All right, one squad to cordon off the immediate area, two to patrol the woods around the hill"

"Yes, sir"

"And Lieutenant We don't knohat to expect Tell your ht foot"