in danger.
Shellie looked up at him and met his eyes. He could see that she understood exactly what he was telling her and there was no need for any further discussion on the topic, she simply nodded in understanding and then turned her attention back to Kimberly.
Kyle hefted his rifle, checked the chamber to make sure a round was loaded and slipped out the door to begin a check around the station and make sure Kimberly hadn't attracted any attention to them.
Chapter 5
"Doctor, you have friends in high places. I just got off the phone with the President and have been given instructions to provide you with whatever support you and your staff need." MG Brookover said over the video conferencing call between the base command center and the communications room inside the isolated cluster of buildings making up the science center.
Seeing how difficult it was going to be dealing with the General and knowing that any requests coming out of their little secluded compound would be met with resistance, Dr. Woods had decided to take a different approach in dealing with the man. Having now be en officially sworn into office following the death of his predecessor, the President and his staff were still isolated in the secure bunker underneath the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia. The President was more than willing to work with Dr. Woods in ensuring his people had all the tools they needed to do their jobs effectively. The one ace in the hole that Dr. Woods knew he had in dealing with the military brass watching over him and his people during their stay at Guantanamo was that he knew the newly sworn President and his cabinet were in a precarious situation. With his refusal to leave the Continental United States and basically transfer the flag of leadership of the nation to the soil of a communist country and give the appearance that the nations leadership had simply run out on those survivors still fighting for their lives; it had become even more pressing an issue that their work towards finding a cure move forward. What Dr. Woods had in mind was something that he knew would not sit well with the General. Upon hearing what he wanted to do the President also had some input of his own on how he wanted things done.
" I’m sorry General, it gave me no great pleasure to have to go over your head like that. But I hope that you understand the scope of what we are trying to accomplish here, we are the last hope of finding a cure for this thing. If we are not allowed to conduct our work with the full use of all resources available, we are just spinning our wheels."
Dr. Woods watched as the General turned to someone just off screen and muttered something low under his breath. He was reasonably certain he picked up a couple less than complimentary swears directed at him, but he knew a little about how soldiers were and let it go. Turning back to the camera the General continued.
"If I understand you correctly, you want me to have the USS Abraham Lincoln and her escorting attack sub re-tasked to steam up the coast and launch reconnaissance missions over the capital and surroundings areas?"
His original plan had been for the flights to only penetrate fifty miles inland from the shoreline. They wanted to obtain air samples and assess the current state of the original virus and how it was maintaining itself in the atmosphere. Most airborne viruses were short-lived and degraded rapidly overtime when exposed to changing air currents and weather patterns. They knew little about this particular infection and it was important that they start tracking its progression over a fixed period of time. Once the threat from airborne contamination settled down they would be able to move into the next phase of his plan, actually putting people on the ground and obtaining fresh and viable samples. Since the weather patterns in the more southern states within flight range of the air base on Cuba had been experiencing a bout of strong tropical
Shellie looked up at him and met his eyes. He could see that she understood exactly what he was telling her and there was no need for any further discussion on the topic, she simply nodded in understanding and then turned her attention back to Kimberly.
Kyle hefted his rifle, checked the chamber to make sure a round was loaded and slipped out the door to begin a check around the station and make sure Kimberly hadn't attracted any attention to them.
Chapter 5
"Doctor, you have friends in high places. I just got off the phone with the President and have been given instructions to provide you with whatever support you and your staff need." MG Brookover said over the video conferencing call between the base command center and the communications room inside the isolated cluster of buildings making up the science center.
Seeing how difficult it was going to be dealing with the General and knowing that any requests coming out of their little secluded compound would be met with resistance, Dr. Woods had decided to take a different approach in dealing with the man. Having now be en officially sworn into office following the death of his predecessor, the President and his staff were still isolated in the secure bunker underneath the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia. The President was more than willing to work with Dr. Woods in ensuring his people had all the tools they needed to do their jobs effectively. The one ace in the hole that Dr. Woods knew he had in dealing with the military brass watching over him and his people during their stay at Guantanamo was that he knew the newly sworn President and his cabinet were in a precarious situation. With his refusal to leave the Continental United States and basically transfer the flag of leadership of the nation to the soil of a communist country and give the appearance that the nations leadership had simply run out on those survivors still fighting for their lives; it had become even more pressing an issue that their work towards finding a cure move forward. What Dr. Woods had in mind was something that he knew would not sit well with the General. Upon hearing what he wanted to do the President also had some input of his own on how he wanted things done.
" I’m sorry General, it gave me no great pleasure to have to go over your head like that. But I hope that you understand the scope of what we are trying to accomplish here, we are the last hope of finding a cure for this thing. If we are not allowed to conduct our work with the full use of all resources available, we are just spinning our wheels."
Dr. Woods watched as the General turned to someone just off screen and muttered something low under his breath. He was reasonably certain he picked up a couple less than complimentary swears directed at him, but he knew a little about how soldiers were and let it go. Turning back to the camera the General continued.
"If I understand you correctly, you want me to have the USS Abraham Lincoln and her escorting attack sub re-tasked to steam up the coast and launch reconnaissance missions over the capital and surroundings areas?"
His original plan had been for the flights to only penetrate fifty miles inland from the shoreline. They wanted to obtain air samples and assess the current state of the original virus and how it was maintaining itself in the atmosphere. Most airborne viruses were short-lived and degraded rapidly overtime when exposed to changing air currents and weather patterns. They knew little about this particular infection and it was important that they start tracking its progression over a fixed period of time. Once the threat from airborne contamination settled down they would be able to move into the next phase of his plan, actually putting people on the ground and obtaining fresh and viable samples. Since the weather patterns in the more southern states within flight range of the air base on Cuba had been experiencing a bout of strong tropical
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