"Have a good time, you old bastard." Sean smiled and gave him a middle finger, causing the others in the cabin to laugh.
One minute later!
"Zulu 06, Bruno 64 completed the launch and began to return to base."
After completing the delivery mission, the Chinook helicopter increased its altitude again and flew to the Jebbard base, leaving a special reconnaissance team on the ground.
When the helicopter gradually moved away and disappeared into the darkness, Long Zhan took off his windproof glasses and rappelling gloves.
Instead, he put on night vision goggles, checked weapons and ammunition, and entered combat mode.
Make preparations before leaving.
"Apollo 2-2, this is Spartan O-1, communications check." As the team's communications officer, Dietz's priority was to check the radio system.
He used Rayson's "MBMMR", a multi-band multi-mission radio communication system specially developed for special operations.
It's not just about radio.
As the world's first actually deployed military radio system using software radio technology, it is more powerful than traditional radio stations.
Not only can it provide voice communication remotely, it can also transmit images and data, and the transmission power only requires 20 watts.
Dietz sent out a communication and got a quick response.
"Spartan O-1, this is Apollo 2-2, please continue to keep communications open and wish the operation a smooth one."
The AC130 air gunship, serving as a communication relay station, received the communication, responded, and moved to the forward operations center in Jebbard.
"Spartan O-1 received, completed."
After confirming that the communication with the operations center was correct, Dietz transferred the communication to the team channel and conducted a communication check within the team.
After confirming that the team's communication was smooth, the team followed the GPS and started to go to the first check-in point——
Budweiser.
The terrain along the way was already very desolate, and coupled with the darkness of the night, strange sounds of some kind of animal would be heard from somewhere from time to time.
Walking in this uninhabited desert mountains gives people a particularly weird feeling.
It can't be said to be scary.
It has nothing to do with feeling relaxed and happy.
In the operational briefing, the major officer made it clear that it would only take 3 to 4 hours to get to the destination from the landing point. However, this first piece of basic information was completely wrong.
It took more than 2 hours to walk from the landing point to the first waypoint, Budweiser.
There are three further waypoints, which means that we are only a quarter of the way, and it will take at least eight or nine hours to complete the entire journey.
Marcus complained mercilessly about this, saying that the headquarters was directing its head with its butt.
As for the reason for this error, Long Zhan guessed based on his actual combat experience.
On the eighth floor, when calculating the distance, the headquarters used daytime marching speed as data, and did not take into account the impact of the loss of vision at night on the march.
It's a typical carelessness.
Fortunately, the departure time was early enough, leaving enough time for the investigation team to travel, so this problem was not that serious.
Even if it takes double the time now, it will still be enough to reach the destination before dawn.