Post by BG Anne McKenna on May 11, 2017 21:01:04 GMT -5
"Pizrak 6 here, we're clear. Moving to RV," McKenna heard over her radio; motioning towards the central terminal wing...as before, the procedure was the same: clear the terminal, bit by bit. Punctuated in the air were the gunshots of M4 carbines, Beretta pistols and .45-70 lever-actions, the sounds echoing through the long and wide corridor. For several minutes the only visual cues that one could see were the hand signals being exchanged between Major McKenna's troops and the Mohawks, each group working in unison as they cleared the terminal.
If there was one thing about working with the Mohawk Scouts, McKenna mused, was that it put paid to one of the goals of both BG McArthur and President Michner and that was the use of native forces whenever possible. There were three reasons for this: one, it was a simple and effective force multiplier; instead of expending thousands of American combat boots, a tasking of those boots with native forces allowed for a far broader stretch of combat capability and capacity than otherwise could be attained. Two, it gave the native forces something to fight for, a way of allying themselves with the U.S. government without a formal alliance (not that formal alliances wouldn't be needed down the road, but that was a different story)...and third, it was a way to make up for the decades and decades of abuse the U.S. government had heaped upon native Americans since the Republic's founding.
Whether it works will be a story none of us will be writing, McKenna wryly thought as they reached the end of the central terminal; without uttering a word, she signaled for them to sweep back in the other direction and return to the central terminal hub.
If there was one thing about working with the Mohawk Scouts, McKenna mused, was that it put paid to one of the goals of both BG McArthur and President Michner and that was the use of native forces whenever possible. There were three reasons for this: one, it was a simple and effective force multiplier; instead of expending thousands of American combat boots, a tasking of those boots with native forces allowed for a far broader stretch of combat capability and capacity than otherwise could be attained. Two, it gave the native forces something to fight for, a way of allying themselves with the U.S. government without a formal alliance (not that formal alliances wouldn't be needed down the road, but that was a different story)...and third, it was a way to make up for the decades and decades of abuse the U.S. government had heaped upon native Americans since the Republic's founding.
Whether it works will be a story none of us will be writing, McKenna wryly thought as they reached the end of the central terminal; without uttering a word, she signaled for them to sweep back in the other direction and return to the central terminal hub.