March 5, 2001 Med Cruise (as played by my group)
The repairs on the Corpus Christi have been completed and she leaves for the Mediterranean on her mission. She has on board about two thirds of a normal crew complement, nineteen torpedoes, four Harpoon missiles and three Tomahawk missiles, as well as spare parts needed for three other SSN’s. In addition she has on board four DIA agents, military spare parts and supplies and ten men from the New England strike team.
She travels across the Atlantic, enters the Med and proceeds to Sicily and picks up one DIA agent and drops off another. Her next stop is then Yugoslavia, where contact is made with DIA agents working to turn the 42nd Infantry Division over to MilGov. Two more agents are dropped off here where they join up with a group of officers friendly to MilGov to deliver a bribe of parts for the division’s commander that could put a dozen of his M60 tanks back into operation, plus some 48 shells for those tanks. On the way out the Corpus Christi attacks and sinks an Italian DD on patrol with a single torpedo.
Her next stop is at an Israeli naval base where parts are dropped off to repair SSN-666, the USS Hawkbill (Sturgeon class), which is in port there, as well as for SSN-773, USS Cheyenne (Los Angeles class), which is at Bahrain. In addition she transfers six torpedoes and one Harpoon missile for the Hawbill. Cheyenne has most of her weapons load out still but Hawbill was down to her last two torpedoes. She then leaves for Greece after picking up a large shipment of weapons from the Israelis.
In Greece she picks up a DIA agent who has the location of two scientists who have vital information for MilGov. The sub travels thru the Dardanelles and drops off the strike team, who make contact with the Romanian resistance fighters after three days that have the scientists, and agree to exchange them for the weapons on the submarine.
The submarine then proceeds to the contact point, where in the process of unloading the weapons they are attacked by Soviet units after being betrayed by an agent in the resistance group. The initial Soviet attack force is destroyed in a hard fight but at the cost of a third of the resistance members. A radio taken off a dying Soviet officer reveals a second Soviet attack with tank support is on its way, and the strike team along with the resistance force sets an ambush quickly.
They are able to destroy both Soviet tanks and three APC’s, leading to a Soviet withdrawal as their morale breaks. The resistance commander gives them a message for the captain as he loads the weapons in several trucks. The submarine then moves off shore and fires the three Tomahawk missiles, using the positional fix he received from the resistance leader as to where he was exactly on a map of the Romanian coast, at the Ploesti oil fields and refinery complexes there. He then reveals they were TLAM-N nuclear missiles and that MilGov is counting on this strike to win the war by destroying the last source of gasoline for the Soviets in Europe.
The submarine commander, after reading the message given him by the resistance leader, gives the order to take the sub as quickly as possible for Portsmouth, UK to drop off the last of its parts. Clearly the message has disturbed him.
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