Post by BG Anne McKenna on Apr 18, 2017 23:26:04 GMT -5
"Major McKenna," he said as turned his head in her direction. "What's your plan here?" With his heavy Russian accent, Major was pronounced more like ma-yor. However, what he said was still quite easy to understand. Grishkov was confident however, that no matter how they did this, that they'd secure the terminal with little to no problems.
Looking over at the Russian officer, McKenna had already made up her mind as to what the plan would be and began. "The plan is to divide the T-wing terminal into sections and take each section," glancing over at Captain Otstoch and his Mohawk Scouts, she asked, "Captain, do your Scouts still carry their climbing gear with them?" a reference to (a) all the climbing gear they carried as part of their regular gear and (b) a reminder that one of the qualifications for the Mohawk Scouts was the ability to fight in mountain terrain, a carryover from the days when the U.S. Army regularly used native Americans from the Mohawk, Iraquois and Algonquin tribes at the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School in Vermont to train infantry in the art of mountain warfare.....and some of their climbing can come in very well in urban settings, McKenna mused, pausing to look back up at the top of the terminal.
"Yes, Major," the captain replied as he signaled to several other Scouts to drop their climbing gear and begin setting them up for use. "Your plan, Major?" he asked.
"Here's the plan, gentlemen," McKenna said, taking off her helmet and outer ACU blouse (the Army Combat Uniform has two blouses - a light fabric inner blouse and a heavier-lined outer blouse) as the plan came into focus. "We've got a T-wing terminal in front of us - three separate areas connected with a central hub. We're going to take the central hub first, then move into the individual wings. Lieutenant," pointing towards Grishkov, "As soon as we get the climbing gear set up, I want your people to go up on top of the roof, go all the way down where all three wings come together, scale down the back end and make your entry there.
"As you do that," pausing to whistle at Sgt. Altidore, who'd come over with his 20-solider section of infantry, to come and join them, "Sergeant Altidore and his section, along with myself and my command team, will climb onto the roof, move to the central hub and hold there. Unless the aerial maps were wrong, there should be a glass roof over the section of the central hub that we're going to rappel down to; we'll blow holes in the glass, rappel down, secure the area.
"Now, once we've got the central hub secure, I want Captain Otstoch and his Mohawks to enter the terminal from each of the three side entrances, here and over at the other two wings," pointing to the other sections of the terminal. "Once you're inside, Captain, link up with the rest of us at the central hub and we'll proceed to the main terminal." Repeating her plan to the assembled once more, she began putting on the rappelling gear she and everyone else would need to climb up and then rappel down with later and said, "Unless there's any objections, let's get ready to go..."
Looking over at the Russian officer, McKenna had already made up her mind as to what the plan would be and began. "The plan is to divide the T-wing terminal into sections and take each section," glancing over at Captain Otstoch and his Mohawk Scouts, she asked, "Captain, do your Scouts still carry their climbing gear with them?" a reference to (a) all the climbing gear they carried as part of their regular gear and (b) a reminder that one of the qualifications for the Mohawk Scouts was the ability to fight in mountain terrain, a carryover from the days when the U.S. Army regularly used native Americans from the Mohawk, Iraquois and Algonquin tribes at the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School in Vermont to train infantry in the art of mountain warfare.....and some of their climbing can come in very well in urban settings, McKenna mused, pausing to look back up at the top of the terminal.
"Yes, Major," the captain replied as he signaled to several other Scouts to drop their climbing gear and begin setting them up for use. "Your plan, Major?" he asked.
"Here's the plan, gentlemen," McKenna said, taking off her helmet and outer ACU blouse (the Army Combat Uniform has two blouses - a light fabric inner blouse and a heavier-lined outer blouse) as the plan came into focus. "We've got a T-wing terminal in front of us - three separate areas connected with a central hub. We're going to take the central hub first, then move into the individual wings. Lieutenant," pointing towards Grishkov, "As soon as we get the climbing gear set up, I want your people to go up on top of the roof, go all the way down where all three wings come together, scale down the back end and make your entry there.
"As you do that," pausing to whistle at Sgt. Altidore, who'd come over with his 20-solider section of infantry, to come and join them, "Sergeant Altidore and his section, along with myself and my command team, will climb onto the roof, move to the central hub and hold there. Unless the aerial maps were wrong, there should be a glass roof over the section of the central hub that we're going to rappel down to; we'll blow holes in the glass, rappel down, secure the area.
"Now, once we've got the central hub secure, I want Captain Otstoch and his Mohawks to enter the terminal from each of the three side entrances, here and over at the other two wings," pointing to the other sections of the terminal. "Once you're inside, Captain, link up with the rest of us at the central hub and we'll proceed to the main terminal." Repeating her plan to the assembled once more, she began putting on the rappelling gear she and everyone else would need to climb up and then rappel down with later and said, "Unless there's any objections, let's get ready to go..."