Starlight

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Jackson watched the chopper float in to land on the pad, the ship shimmering before his eyes in the heat waves, the rotors kicking up a cloud of red dust. Then the ship flew off, the pilot hugging the mountaintop to avoid exposing himself to fire from the NVA who owned the gorge below and the mountains into Laos. Tom Light walked out of the slowly settling dust cloud and stopped, turning in a slow circle as he looked over the firebase.

“Goddamn, why did he have to come here?” Jackson muttered, spitting to clear the taste of the red dust from his mouth. “The bad shit is on us now.”

“Better stay clear of Light,” Major Hale said.

“Nothing but fucking trouble where he goes,” Jackson said.

“Goddammit, he won’t stay here. Not at my firebase. He’s going out in the bush.”

Not unless Tom Light feels like going, Jackson thought. Hale liked to make threats he did not have the power to carry out. The men laughed at him behind his back.

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