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TO: MR. DAVID ALHWHITE

DATE: 7 DECEMBER 2014

TIME: 0937 EST

SUBJECT: CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN FACILITY DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

Dave,

I don’t think you grasp the gravity of the situation, nor should I have to explain it to you. I’m certainly going to grant your request to study the anomalous behavior around the blast radius, but I can’t give you extra troops to escort your team. Those men are busy digging for survivors, salvageable tech, and keeping the media hounds out.

When I get done making sure our wounds are licked and the dead mourned, then we can deal ‘why’. The ‘what’ is that there is a frozen hole in the ground where there used to be a mountain, six hundred billion dollars worth of equipment, and fifteen thousand good men and women.

This would have been so much simpler if I wasn’t in DC at the time. Now they’re gonna keep me here to explain what I don’t know. You know the drill. The boss is gone, now I’m in charge, and they want answers.

Meet up with Jennings when you get there; he’s taking care of things for me on the ground. Good luck, but just tag your report and send it up the chain. These fucking paper-pushers are going to bury me here.

-Fred

LIEUTENANT GENERAL ALFRED M. HANSON
ACTING COMMANDER
NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE COMMAND

ATTACHMENTS
(1) (TS//TK//NF) Battle Damage Assessment: Cheyenne Mountain Military Complex 12.7.14

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Author's Note

And so part two begins. Expect it to be out within two weeks. If I can't do it by then I'll have failed for a while (I'm going under the knife/laser for PRK, so doing anything that requires seeing will be a hassle).