Sword Point
“You can ask me for anything you like except time.
-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Bandar Abbas, Iran 0340 Hours, 28 June (0010 Hours, 28 June, GMT) In the distance a huge C-5A Galaxy transport could be heard rumbling down the runway. The whine of its engines cut through the clear night air as they strained to lift the cavernous body of the plane aloft.
Like an approaching locomotive, the noise grew in intensity, increasing to an ear-splitting sharpness until the aircraft lifted clumsily into the ai...r and turned toward the far horizon. The engines’ pitch changed to a low roar that trailed off behind the aircraft like an invisible tail.
Ed Martain sat on a gray metal folding chair outside his tent and peered into the darkness in the direction of the departing C-5A, trying hard to see it. He knew it was impossible to do so; its marker lights were already cut off and would remain off until the aircraft was one hundred miles out over the Gulf.MoreLess
-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Bandar Abbas, Iran 0340 Hours, 28 June (0010 Hours, 28 June, GMT) In the distance a huge C-5A Galaxy transport could be heard rumbling down the runway. The whine of its engines cut through the clear night air as they strained to lift the cavernous body of the plane aloft.
Like an approaching locomotive, the noise grew in intensity, increasing to an ear-splitting sharpness until the aircraft lifted clumsily into the ai...r and turned toward the far horizon. The engines’ pitch changed to a low roar that trailed off behind the aircraft like an invisible tail.
Ed Martain sat on a gray metal folding chair outside his tent and peered into the darkness in the direction of the departing C-5A, trying hard to see it. He knew it was impossible to do so; its marker lights were already cut off and would remain off until the aircraft was one hundred miles out over the Gulf.MoreLess
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