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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krizzel" data-source="post: 609964" data-attributes="member: 9062">Carlsberg AFB…Crates of equipment in black, watertight floatation cases, already strapped with parachutes, were being towed up into the cavernous aft hatch of a C-130S, its props already spinning as they idled up.  Mad Dog stood at the bottom of the ramp, watching as his six new men walked out onto the runway.  The floodlights on the hangars behind them turned them into a matched set of silhouettes, some bigger, some faster, but all with a dangerous air of lethality about them.  They came to stand before their new commanding officer, huge parachutes on their backs and oxygen masks in their hands, waiting for his final approval.“Okay,” Major ‘Mad Dog’ Anderson began simply, yelling over the noise of the runway.  “You know what to do.  Get out there and get our guys home safe – and yourselves too!  Remember,” he admonished, wagging a finger at them, “failure is not an option!  Now move, move, move!!!”</blockquote>