Outlaw

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Lieutenant Sierra “Doc” Crowe reached across the cockpit with her right hand and twisted in her seat to watch the Chinese fishing trawler go down their port side. It was little more than a blur as the Super Hornet hummed through the humid air a scant one hundred feet above the water. She glanced back at the large moving map display in front of her and noted their position in the East China Sea — well outside Chinese territorial waters.

“Did you see the name?” her pilot asked over the intercom.

“Was I supposed to?” Doc looked forward and saw the pilot’s grin in one of the three mirrors along his forward canopy bow. “Quit busting my balls, Colt.”

To outsiders, a comment like that coming from a woman would have seemed odd. More than odd, even. But, to Colt Bancroft, Sierra was just one of the guys. He abruptly banked right and climbed away from the water. “Tiger, Diamond one hundred.”

The E-2D Hawkeye controller replied immediately. “Go ahead.”

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