Baghdad Butcher, (Book #1 of the 9-book Janitors Series) - Jim has quesstion for incomming Administration.

Today’s excerpt is from Baghdad Butcher, Book #1 of the nine-book Janitors Series (and the first of over twenty Jim Scott books).  Jim wants to know if the incoming Administration is aware of the job he has been assigned.  The is also a bit of background on Jim.  Enjoy and have a wonderful day.

m.j.

 

“Yes, but keep it under your hat.  Also, I’m afraid I can’t tell you what’s on.  One of those need-to-know deals.”

“I understand fully.  What can I do for you?”

“Get me an appointment, on the ABSOLUTE SLY, with General Bradley if you can.”

“Will he know what I’m not supposed to know?”

“He better, or I’m not going to do what I can’t tell you.”

“Reading between the lines, I think I understand.  Old President, new President?”

“You got it.”

“What time do you want the appointment set up for?”

“Ten in the morning would be fine.  If not, you can reach me in the Gulfstream.  Do you still have that number?”

“I do.  Can that old Gulfstream get you here that quickly?”

“Yeah, smartass.  I’ll have Holly fly it.”

“Good.  She’s a better pilot than you any day of the week.”

“You’ll get no argument from me there.”

“I take it you want this meeting set up somewhere out of the way.  How about my Washington apartment?  I can get the General there before you and then get gone.”

“Has it been swept?  And what about your family?”

“It has.  The debugging guys come by every day.  The family isn’t here yet.”

“Okay, sounds good.  You won’t have to go far.  Kitchen should be fine.  I’ll only need about five minutes of his time.”

“Great.  See you about ten at my place.”

“So long.”

Holly took her phone back from Jim.  “Will he be able to get what you want set up?”

“If anybody can, Ted can.  General Bradley has a good deal of respect for Ted.  As you know, Ted led the other Recon Plus team in Iraq, and did one hell of a job.”

During Desert Storm, two teams of Marines called Recon Plus had been inserted into Iraq.  The brainchild of then-Major Scott, the teams were designed to disrupt communications, act as forward targeting spotters, and in general become pests in any way they could.  In addition, all five members of both teams were expert snipers…the very best riflemen the Marine Corps had to offer.

  Fox Team One was headed by Major Scott.  With him he had four sergeants, all career Marines who idolized him—in itself a very unusual circumstance.  Fox Team Two was headed by Captain Ted Kuntz.  He had one lieutenant, two sergeants, and one corporal with him.  The name “Fox” was symbolic of a fox in the henhouse.  And that is exactly what they were.  Both teams were inserted near separate areas deemed to be most likely to house communication centers due to the vast number of antennas at each.  The two sites were over one hundred miles apart, so the two teams had no idea how each other was doing, or had done, until hostilities were over.

Fox Team One, with Major Scott in command, set up in a parameter covering about a mile, manned by two two-man teams and a man by himself who acted as a flanking guard.  His only job was to keep the enemy off the two teams.  On their first night on the job, Fox One first dug in hidey-holes, and then set out to “have a little fun.”  That “little fun” saw two ammo dumps, a fuel bunker, a communications building, and several troop-staging areas go up in flames after wicked explosions set them off.  It was done in such a way that most on the scene swore that they had been the victims of a bombing raid.  Very little of the items used to do the dirty work had been brought with the team; they “appropriated” almost all of it from the enemy.  Then for the duration, they made nightly sniper attacks on the enemy encampment.  They used light-enhancing night scopes and nearly silent rifles with specially designed smokeless powder.  During the day they pulled their hidey-holes in on top of themselves.  Of course, the rifle of choice for Major Scott was his Crosswhite.  By the time of the surrender, the sniper attacks of Fox One had eliminated over five hundred soldiers.  Major Scott had killed over two hundred of those men.  Nearly every one of his shots took out an officer, including nine general officers, by conservative count.  Most of those came during the hurried retreat of the Iraqi army. 

As successful as Fox One had been, after debriefing all concerned, everyone—including Major Scott—felt Fox Two had been even more effective.  And of the ten men inserted, ten men came back.  Only Captain Kuntz had been wounded; a severe enough leg wound to end his Marine Corps career.

 

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