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Unseen by Cruz-or by anyone not within a few paces of the cohortcommander, Tribune I Gutierrez-a non-com from Cheatham's EngineerCentury met the 1^st at the pass. Carrera made a call to the commanderof his mechanized cohort. A mere year and a half to gofrom a standing start to something resembling an army in battle?Ridiculous! Absurd! Impossible! Except they'd seen Hennessey do impossible things before. Odd, Fernandez said to himself, very odd that a Spanish nameshould appear among our adversaries, yet be living in Bekaa.

So Iimprovised. Oh, what the hell? Icleared my slate for two hours at that twat, Harriet's, insistence. He might haveskipped it yesterday; hard to remember. There, stretchingout east to west before them were five sets of enormous, naturallyoccurring, grass, bush, sand, rock and gravel simulacra of femalegenitalia.