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Two weeks after the crawler was successful with retrieving the valuable equipment fallen deep inside the ocean floor. The Seaview arrived a few days ago at the Alaska air base to deliver communications equipment.
The Nelson Institute had decided it was the time to head up to Juneau, Alaska and the air force base. However what they didn't know that the area was being hit with the biggest snow storm in years making it difficult for all involved to get around the base and have air force planes fly out with their missions.
General Ipstein new to the base had been in contact with the Seaview, Captain Crane and Nelson having come along for the ride. Leaving Angie only for a day to work before heading out on a week's vacation with her husband. Patterson,
Kowalski and Chief Sharkey to hold down the fort until the Seaview gets back.
But in the meantime...
Angie was having a headache trying to explain the paperwork to Patterson. A great many things had changed years ago for when he would work in the place of Angie or any other at night for the Institute.
"Jesus Patterson! It's not all that hard. I thought you knew how to use the computer?" She says with a tone that had her pissed off and with only five more hours to go before leaving on her vacation to Paris for a week.
"I do. Just a little rusty that's all Angie. I will be fine once you leave tonight."They walked inside Nelson's office when the communications panel behind the wall was beeping. It was the Seaview and no doubt Admiral Nelson.
Angie opened up the wall with switching on the communications channel and placing in the code and scrambling. "This is Angie, is this Admiral Nelson?" She says with waiting for his reply.
"Who else would it be Angie? Just checking in with you and see how the office is doing before your leaving for vacation." He asked from his cabin on the submarine.
She lied when she mention that everything was going well with showing Patterson the ropes for now. "Everything is fine sir. How is the trip so far before reaching Juno, Alaska?"
"Uneventful so far. However I understand the base in Juno is having the worst snow storm in years. It's going to make it hard with the Seaview to deliver the communications containers.
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General Epstein needed to have the air base run way cleared the best they could with the cleaning crews to remove the snow and place salt. However it was the howling wind making it difficult for anyone to see. Especially for when it comes to the pilots.
They needed to get three air force planes into the air. As Air traffic control had noticed with the shift of the snow to end for an hour with the window. This would be the chance to take off and get up above the snow clouds and head to its destination to Hawaii.
This window would be in two hours and the time to have the run way being cleared to have the pilots take off quickly. Otherwise there wouldn't be another chance. Captain Harold Dunlap, Lt. Lars Gunthner and Sergeant Anthony Areosmith would be the three chosen to make the flight out of Alaska and head for Hawaii. They have been pilots with the base for the past four years. The three of them are good buddies and have been a great deal together on missions.
The siren inside the pilot quarters letting them know to get ready and head on over to the field and their three planes. Each air force plane will have one pilot in each instead of the usual two.
Captain Dunlap anxious to get going. Waited for the other two to get dressed and move quickly in their suits to protect them from types of conditions. "Lets go Lars and Anthony. We only have a small window to get our planes out before the snow starts to fall once again, as with the blowing wind." he said with having butter flies in his stomach.
Lars tells his friend of commander in charge that he was all set to go as with Anthony feeling strange about the situation. He had this feeling once before years ago for when his sister Susan was almost killed in a car crash with him driving in a snow storm and black ice to have him stopping in time before falling down a hill.
However she just suffered with a few cuts and bruises once help arrived to get them out of the small SUV brown truck.