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Originally Posted by Raellus
Right- I'm not questioning their presence in the USA. I'm just curious about what that particular team's mission was. Chico?
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They had several targets in the Puget Sound area on their list. Their dream was to strike the SSBN base in Bangor, Washington (they reconned it and decided that absent hijaking a helicopter they had little chance of overcoming the base's security and damaging a boomer). Other objectives included to damage the Boeing aircraft plants, disrupt deployment from the port of Tacoma and McChord AFB (as they did by shooting down the 767), possibly inflitrate Ft Lewis and assasinate the CG of 9th ID and the families of many I Corps commanders. There were also shipyards and refineries in the region, as well as the big Naval ammo dump at Port Hadlock.
I had the GRU direct that the Spetsnaz teams try to hide in urban areas, where they were more likely to be able to blend into the crowd than in a rural area or small town where strangers would be immediately noticed.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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