Think you detect a conspiracy that might extend wide and reach the highest levels of the U.S.

Taken out of context and twisted to distort, incredibly, these emails become the basis for putting the long-serving SEAL officially under investigation for subversive activities, disclosure of sensitive information and conduct unbecoming an officer. Totally ignoring the obvious oddities surrounding the defective intelligence his SEAL team had been forced to rely upon, they instead confront the lieutenant commander with old emails of his with renowned experts in insurgencies and international relations at Naval Postgraduate School and Johns Hopkins. Just how wrong are things? Consider the absurd interrogation to which James Reece is subjected by the two NCIS agents. “Your men trusted you, Reece,” he thinks to himself, “And now they are dead. Reece the scapegoat for this unmitigated disaster. Sixty-eight of America’s finest warriors massacred.Īlthough this tragic mission had been forced upon him from far-away and on-high, and although even the tactics to be followed had been dictated to him, two agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Services are at the hospital waiting to interrogate him - and it’s quickly obvious to him and Boozer that the goal is to make Lt. His most seasoned troop chief, Boozer, tells him they are now the only survivors, that the enemy had baited the Americans, wiring the landing area, igniting a massive explosion that killed all the Rangers and the two SEALS who guided them in. Next thing James Reece remembers is coming to in a military hospital. Two survivors guide in an airstrike to pound the enemy position, followed by helicopters carrying the Army Rangers tasked to evacuate the wounded and the dead. Soon he will realize that the hell and fury that had so suddenly, so destructively hit his SEAL team had killed all but four of his force. Suddenly a devastating explosion erupts, tearing the helmet from his head as its brutal force hurls him 10 yards. He keys his radio and gives the order to move forward.

That everything had all gone so easy is what makes the battle-hardened SEALS uneasy.Īnd why such pressure from higher up authority to attack this target? A far-from-the-battle-zone flag-level command had usurped the tactical planning process. James Reece is leading his team of SEALS on a mission to take out an enemy target in Khost Province, Afghanistan.

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