He ran to the door and pushed them at Senior Chief Sadler.“Faxes just came in,” the sailor said. “Master Chief told me to get here before you took off or I was toast.”“You made it,” Sadler said. “Now drive slow going back.” At once the crew chief closed and locked the cabin door.Murdock and Lieutenant (j.g.) Gardner divided the stack of fax pages and began reading.“Oh, yeah,” Murdock said. Sadler and Gardner both looked at him. “Now we know why we’re going to that little country. Some wild-eyed rebel down there kidnapped the Vice President and is holding him for ransom.”“No shit?” Sadler said.“So all we have to do is track down this rebel band, kill all the bad guys, and rescue the VP,” Gardner said. “Piece of cake.”“Yeah,” Murdock said. “That’s the what. Just how we do it will depend on a thousand different factors. Some of them must be in all this fax paper.”Then all three went back to reading. Quickly Murdock discovered that the tiny nation was only ten years old.
