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Alex Knox awoke to his cell phone ringing. He checked the caller ID and saw it was Marshall.
“Morning, Skipper,” Knox said groggily.
Hail wasted little time saying, “Alex, I need your full attention. I want you to get your Jefferson Starship group up and ready for action. As fast as you can, I need it flown in by chopper to the airport in Lomé. A United States cargo plane will be waiting for the delivery. You will load Jefferson Starship onto the plane. From there our new guys, Walker, Hooper and Topher will fly the cargo plane to the airport in Peshawar. We will unload it, and Renner, Nolan, and I will use a rented Huey to fly the Starship into a hot zone. At that point, I need all your Starship creators uplinked, online, and ready to go. Did you get all that?”
There was a short pause. Still half-awake, Knox finally said, “Yeah, I got most of it. Can you just repeat the part after you said, “I need your full attention?”