Chapter 101 - Rescue Staging

29 December Second Staging ground, South of City K and Special Forces National Headquarters, Capital City

Knowing that Major Hung had detected the communication's equipment, the Colonel on duty telephoned Major Pang's secure mobile.

"Major, following on from the earlier conversation…"

"When you indicated the concerns of what Major Hung knows. That could be problematic."

"It could, but we are monitoring as much as we can from the intelligence group at the City K base to see if he acts that may hurt this mission."

"You have other information though."

"We do, the tracker's signal has finally given us enough data to lock in a location. We used that to get a satellite overpass of the location and the images, maps and everything we have about the site has been sent to your secure email. The Police work, had us in the right direction to start with."

"How far in off the road?"

"Ten kilometres, but bush land surrounds the location, giving you easy cover to move in, but at the same time it gives them places to hide. Our assessment is not to take the vehicles in. There is only one road in and we suspect that will be monitored. Leave someone with the vehicles so when you need to you can get one vehicle in."

"Your view as to strike time?"

"We will have good satellite coverage of the area for two hours from 4 am, making that the ideal time to launch your attack. The coverage before then while not as good, is sufficient for us in the preceding two hours to enable us to monitor for any signs that they know of your attack. Unless something alerts us to any knowledge that your attack has been detected once you tell us you are leaving City K, strict radio silence will be maintained. For the same reason we will not use your secure phones, for the same reason."

"Got it Sir."

"Your plans?"

"Subject to what you send in, Major Dang will remain with the vehicles, and we will leave to head in to take positions in the hour. We want to observe the site for at least an hour preferably two hours before we launch."

"Fine. Please confirm from now until launch, unless something changes it will be radio silence."

"Confirmed sir. Radio silence until we launch unless something changes."

With that the call was ended and Ben headed over to his fellow musketeers, pulling out his secure laptop to review the data emailed to them. Once they received the data, Ben turned to the members of their team saying "All secure mobiles are to be turned off and secured in the Faraday cage. Unless absolutely necessary we will not be communicating with anyone until we launch the rescue mission, and that includes within the group. Satellite coverage is set for 4am, but I want us to be in place supervising the site by 2am."

While he was speaking, David Dang and Joseph Wang were reviewing the information emailed to them, along with the maps and satellite images they secured before leaving the capital/ Carefully they compared the those images to that emailed through. Less than five minutes later, the whole group circled around the table.

Ben spoke "Gentleman, the plan is as follows. We will leave here in ten minutes, securing the equipment we do not need. This place is not linked to the military, and has been loaned to us for the purposes of this mission. We have use of it as long as we need, but we need to ensure we secure everything we leave here to collect on our return. We will take three vehicles. Major Dang along with the medic will remain with the vehicles. The balance of us will tackle the approximate ten kilometres into the location on foot in pairs. One pair will check the road for signs of landmines, IED's or any other dangers, and the remaining pairs, will make their way through the forest. I want everyone's thoughts as to final locations for each group for our two hours of pre-attack surveillance."

With that the men surrounded the table, and quickly used all the available material to finalise their locations for surveillance before finalising their packs, securing everything not required and loading the vehicles, leaving in just over the set ten minutes.

Quietly turning to his friends David said, "Are you certain on this plan?"

"David you know as well as we do, the Devil will have surveillance on the road. It will not likely have traps on it, but we need to sweep it before hand, so five minutes after we launch you can start to make your way in with the medic, in case he is needed. We have our locations for drops set, and they are not the locations most would use, given the terrain, so we can use that to our advantage," responded Joseph.

"You know, despite everything I hate rushed missions like this."

"David, calm down. We have had a few hours, more than we normally get, but it is the Colonel who has given us all the opportunity to have the careers we have," added Ben.

"I know that you two, hence why I am concerned about messing this up."

"No as per usual you are over thinking this. Let us get going, otherwise we will not be able to pull this off," added Joseph, realising these two would debate everything again, delaying them and jeopardising this mission.

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