EJ

Basic Load

By: EJ (31 Mar 2001, Saturday)

The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, "Humvee" for short, rode over the hardtop towards the emir’s palace. On the back sat the United States Ambassador, H. Johnson, and seated to his left sat General Riley. In front rode Sergeant Ros, the driver. Next to him, in the vehicle’s technical commander’s seat rode Colonel Fiona Brown, U.S. Army Nurse Corps. There had been a change of government in the emirate, resulting in the disappearance of some of the members of the ruling family. As they sped towards the palace, Fiona could see to her left the birds congregating around the crosses erected along the shoreline. That area was strictly off limits to All–American personnel. Fiona was a shapely, five–foot…