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.You need a R&R in HongKong and get laid.But I think the Posleen have eat all the whores.Maybe youshould try one of the corpswhores in your area.If you show 'em youre metalsyou might even get it for free.We got your last cair package and I put it away safe.I appresiate the helopin these trying times.And if you ever need anthing, you no where it is.Take care and don't forget to duck.Dad.It took him the usual two reads to interpret his father's missive.His dad wasnot illiterate or unintelligent, but when Michael O'Neal, Sr.had grown up inRabun County, going to the eighth grade was for over-educated nerd-boys.Mike's father had been pulled out in the sixth grade to work the fields andhad done so until he was seventeen and could escape to the Army.And, unlike some of his peers, Papa O'Neal had never improved his writing.Hewas well-read, indeed he read military history voraciously, but the readingnever seemed to translate to his written vocabulary or grammar.That was okay by Major O'Neal, though.In a way, his father was just about theonly person he could open up to, even if his advice was sometimes rough andready.He was just beginning to mentally compose a reply to the effect that they weregetting a Rest andPage 202ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlRecovery and that despite the fact that he was the second person to recommendthat he get laid, he had so far failed to do so, when the AID cleared thescreen and threw up a hologram."Incoming priority message from General Horner."So much for R&R.Mike looked at Horner's image and sighed."Where?"Horner opened his mouth as if to start a spiel and then seemed to deflate."Rabun Gap.It's.gone, Mike."Major O'Neal set his jaw and tapped the AID."Schematic, Shelly."When he saw the map of the Gap it had red covering all the zones around theGap including the O'Neal farm.Mike looked at it a moment in disbelief thendropped his face into his hands."Did the corps last a whole five minutes?""I don't know how well they would have done under normal circumstances,"Horner answered, "but these Posleen aren't acting like Posleen at all.Theyhave some sort of armored flying tank that took outthe SheVa gun that was forward deployed.It apparently was parked too close tothe main force of theCorps and it took out the second and third line of defense.To make thingsworse, they are using their landers for a straightforward airmobile operation;they used C-Decs to take out the Wall, to literally smash it flat, and looklike they're getting ready for a bound forward.Then they have come in and,apparently, rebuilt the road.I'm impressed.And frightened.I don't like theidea of Posleen combat engineers.What next? Artillery?""Shelly, how solid is this information?" Mike asked hoarsely."Resetting image," Shelly said."Red is eyewitness reports or video or Posleentransmissions, shading to blue for maximum estimate of expanse."Modified that way, the O'Neal farm was only a light violet; it was possiblethat Cally and Papa O'Neal were still alive."Shelly, try to raise somebody at the farm and keep an ear out forintelligence as to their condition,"Mike said."So, what do you want me to do?""The Gap has to be plugged." Horner said."Oh, blow that!" Mike exclaimed angrily.After all the years of fighting ittook him barely a second to imagine the broad outline of the proposed mission.And it was not survivable."You're joking, right!""No, I'm not joking," Horner said coldly."We still have Banshees, not enoughto loft a full battalion but.""But we're not a full battalion," Mike snarled."God dammit, Jack, my middle name may be Leonidas, but it doesn't mean I want to die likehim!And the damned Spartans died because they got surrounded;we'd already be surrounded.And just how the hell are we supposed to fight ourway into the Gap? How?There are, what, fourteen or fifteen million Posleen waiting to move through?Where in the fuck are we supposed to land?""I need the Gap plugged," Horner said inexorably."I need it plugged forseventy-two hours [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]