The Storm

best for me and my men as well as for Gunny and the guys that saved us. Why would we destroy a group of guys that had just saved our lives? I didn’t take them on these missions to have their own country kill them, and what could I say to a guy that just saved me and my team at the risk of his own career or his and their lives. So I agreed. My guys trusted me. I had brought them out of the soup 31 times before and this last one, well, all I could say was, that they were alive and that they had payed their dues. So I went with Gunny’s idea and had my men swear an oath to keep it quiet. And that is how it was." "You take it from here, Gunny and I’m going to give my memory a break,” Henry said. Gunny then carried on with the story: “We rolled Captain Henry’s boys in the chopper and headed for base camp, and I gave my little speech to Captain Forester about how this should be played out. I knew that he "My plan was to set down at the end of the runway by some storage buildings and load off Henry’s team with a couple of my guys onto a service truck and get them off base to a trusted civilian doc for the two wounded guys. The rounds had passed clean through, and wound dressing, antiseptic wash, antibiotics, morphine, and some stitches would take care of it. Once off base, my two guys made their way back to the base for report through an unsecured gate entry. I stayed behind for a quick debriefing and told the story to the commanding officers and a couple of CIA officials the next mornin'." was reluctant at first, but soon saw the truth of it. To live or die. That was about it for him and his men, and my team as well."

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