Just outside of Augusta, Georgia is the picturesque setting that we find ourselves in, at a stately manor house that was once a major plantation, but is now the public face to Genom Bioengineering and Research and home to the company's Animal Genetics Mapping Laboratory, better known as The Project.
Most of the labs of the Project are located underground in an elaborate facility that covers several acres of land with three different levels, all carefully guarded by layers of manned and automated security measures. Most of your training takes place in one of the many underground rooms, but on some occasions, you are given a field trip to practice your skills in a variety of locations.
At this particular time, it is early March, and the weather is already starting to heat up with lots of humidity. You are out in the woods, working on your field navigation skills with your current instructors, two of the many active duty Army soldiers working with the Project, Lt. Felix Cortez and SSgt Marie Cuomo. Lt. Cortez is leading you on a brisk pace through the trees, helping you learn your land navigation skills, all while wearing your heavy field packs full of gear and packing your standard weapons. It is all just another typical day of endless training.
That all changes when SSgt Cuomo's encrypted satellite radio crackles to life. "Field team, field team. Mission is now aborted. Proceed with all haste to Checkpoint Wrench for immediate extraction. I say again, training run is now aborted. What is your ETA to the checkpoint? Please acknowledge."
Lt. Cortez checks his GPS unit before responding. Taking the radio handset from SSgt Cuomo, he calls in. "Copy that, HQ. ETA to Checkpoint Wrench is twenty minutes. What's the sitch?"
"Full briefing will be provided for your team upon return home. Just get a hustle on. We need you guys back here ASAP." With that, the signal comes to an end.
Felix hands the handset back to Marie. "Well, you heard the man and you know the drill. We have a chopper to catch. Lets move."
Epiphany NemoTheSurvivor Monky Silanon Psychie
Most of the labs of the Project are located underground in an elaborate facility that covers several acres of land with three different levels, all carefully guarded by layers of manned and automated security measures. Most of your training takes place in one of the many underground rooms, but on some occasions, you are given a field trip to practice your skills in a variety of locations.
At this particular time, it is early March, and the weather is already starting to heat up with lots of humidity. You are out in the woods, working on your field navigation skills with your current instructors, two of the many active duty Army soldiers working with the Project, Lt. Felix Cortez and SSgt Marie Cuomo. Lt. Cortez is leading you on a brisk pace through the trees, helping you learn your land navigation skills, all while wearing your heavy field packs full of gear and packing your standard weapons. It is all just another typical day of endless training.
That all changes when SSgt Cuomo's encrypted satellite radio crackles to life. "Field team, field team. Mission is now aborted. Proceed with all haste to Checkpoint Wrench for immediate extraction. I say again, training run is now aborted. What is your ETA to the checkpoint? Please acknowledge."
Lt. Cortez checks his GPS unit before responding. Taking the radio handset from SSgt Cuomo, he calls in. "Copy that, HQ. ETA to Checkpoint Wrench is twenty minutes. What's the sitch?"
"Full briefing will be provided for your team upon return home. Just get a hustle on. We need you guys back here ASAP." With that, the signal comes to an end.
Felix hands the handset back to Marie. "Well, you heard the man and you know the drill. We have a chopper to catch. Lets move."
Epiphany NemoTheSurvivor Monky Silanon Psychie