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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krizzel" data-source="post: 589180" data-attributes="member: 9062">“You’re here because we don’t have anyone better, McConnell.”  The same soldier who picked up Robert and Drew earlier stood in the doorway, hands on his hips as he surveyed the group with a careful eye.  His eyes, now free of their sunglasses, were hazel and hard, buttressed by his square jaw and no-nonsense countenance.  “Welcome to Tango Bravo.”He strode into the room without another word, heading straight to the table at the head of the room, with the young lieutenant and the large dark-skinned soldier following behind.  The lieutenant sat down and set a briefcase on the table, opening it and organizing the contents, while the big soldier began handing out PDAs to the assembled group.“Sit down, soldiers,” the blond-haired, square-jawed soldier commanded.  “The next fifteen minutes is probably the only rest you’ll see in the next few days.”  He came to stand in front of the team, clasping his hands behind his back and looking each of them in the eye.  “We don’t have time for better introductions – the Brass specifically wanted Team Bravo for this mission, so we had to expedite matters.”“I am Major Anderson, code name Mad Dog, your new CO*.  This here is Lieutenant Hauser,” he informed, pointing to the young lieutenant at the table who looked up briefly with a small smile.  “And this is Sergeant Major Tyrell, your command NCO**,” he went on, nodding to the dark-skinned soldier.  “He used to be a marine, so if you call him ‘Gunny’ it’ll make him real happy.”The Major’s face turned more serious.  “Now, I know you’re all familiar with this next bit, but Presidential Order requires the formality…Arashikage, Robert T.  Code name Silent Snake…Borokowski, Drew C.  Code name Evac…McConnell, Jonathan D.  Code name Wraith…McCormick, Harvey.  Code name Blaster…Oney, Gerrard.  Code name Snow Crane…Smith, Benjamin J.  Code name Zeus…You have been asked to join the Special Counter-Terrorism Unit, Sub-team Bravo.  This unit does not exist.  Furthermore, the following briefing and the subsequent mission do not exist.  If you are stranded, captured, or killed, your country, comrades, and your President will disavow all knowledge of you and your mission.  You will not be rescued.  If there is any difficulty with this, you are asked to speak up now.”Mad Dog looked over the six soldiers for a long moment, then nodded at their silence.  Now, with that BS*** out of the way, this is my team.  And on my team, we all go home or nobody goes home.  Is that clear?” he barked.  “And if nobody comes home you can bet your eternal soul that I’ll come out there and kick every one of you into a pile of snot for being late!  You got me?”* Commanding Officer** Non-Commissioned Officer*** <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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