CHAPTER TWO
Fort Dix, NJ
"Birdie, birdie in the sky,"
"Birdie, birdie in the sky,"
"Why'd you do that in my eye,"
"Why'd you do that in my eye,"
"I won't threat & I won't cry,"
"I won't threat & I won't cry,"
"I'm just glad that cows don't fly!"
"I'm just glad that cows don't fly!"
"Sound off."
"One, two."
"Sound off."
"Three, four."
"Bring it on down."
"One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, huh."
"Alright, You pukes that was a nice 20 mile jog. Now I want all of you to start a hard run for the 5 miles to he next training station. The last three of you dirt bags to get there will just have to turn back around and run back to the base, and if you hurry you may have time to your mommies and tell them that you're being shipped to one of the worst hellholes on earth," Duke said with a grin.
As he looked over the troops he thought, "at my last count there were 83 of them and we've lost a few since then, we may have four or five survive this week."
"Top," Torpedo yelled as he ran up to Duke with a soldier he didn't recognize, "we've just had a report brought to us from camp four. The two recruits that disappeared haven't been found yet. Tracker, Spirit and Junkyard have spent the last two days looking for them, but it's as if they disappeared outside the base fence line. That's a heavy traffic area so there wasn't any way to tell if they had transportation waiting for them. One of the troopers who were with them in training over heard some possible explanation of what is going on. This is Lt. Daniel Bronte, code-named Colt."
"Report."
"Well sir, I overheard Malek mention to Alphonse that 'everything was set' and that he had talked to his cousin in Haiti. When I mentioned this to Zap at the other camp, Ducky said he had heard Malek say his cousin was a member of a 'Fraternity of the Worm'. He didn't think anything of it at the time, but after they disappeared and I mentioned hearin' of the cousin, he told us what he had heard."
"Fraternity of the Worm, that sounds like a college entomology club," Torpedo said with a smile.
"Well, Torpedo, in some cultures the term worm or wyrm is used to describe both snake and lizards. Which means that this 'Fraternity' could just be another cover for Cobra"
Fort Dix, NJ
"Birdie, birdie in the sky,"
"Birdie, birdie in the sky,"
"Why'd you do that in my eye,"
"Why'd you do that in my eye,"
"I won't threat & I won't cry,"
"I won't threat & I won't cry,"
"I'm just glad that cows don't fly!"
"I'm just glad that cows don't fly!"
"Sound off."
"One, two."
"Sound off."
"Three, four."
"Bring it on down."
"One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, huh."
"Alright, You pukes that was a nice 20 mile jog. Now I want all of you to start a hard run for the 5 miles to he next training station. The last three of you dirt bags to get there will just have to turn back around and run back to the base, and if you hurry you may have time to your mommies and tell them that you're being shipped to one of the worst hellholes on earth," Duke said with a grin.
As he looked over the troops he thought, "at my last count there were 83 of them and we've lost a few since then, we may have four or five survive this week."
"Top," Torpedo yelled as he ran up to Duke with a soldier he didn't recognize, "we've just had a report brought to us from camp four. The two recruits that disappeared haven't been found yet. Tracker, Spirit and Junkyard have spent the last two days looking for them, but it's as if they disappeared outside the base fence line. That's a heavy traffic area so there wasn't any way to tell if they had transportation waiting for them. One of the troopers who were with them in training over heard some possible explanation of what is going on. This is Lt. Daniel Bronte, code-named Colt."
"Report."
"Well sir, I overheard Malek mention to Alphonse that 'everything was set' and that he had talked to his cousin in Haiti. When I mentioned this to Zap at the other camp, Ducky said he had heard Malek say his cousin was a member of a 'Fraternity of the Worm'. He didn't think anything of it at the time, but after they disappeared and I mentioned hearin' of the cousin, he told us what he had heard."
"Fraternity of the Worm, that sounds like a college entomology club," Torpedo said with a smile.
"Well, Torpedo, in some cultures the term worm or wyrm is used to describe both snake and lizards. Which means that this 'Fraternity' could just be another cover for Cobra"