While the earlier than usual game at College Station had been under way for an hour, events that would define the success or failure of the planned attacks continued to unfold. At Camp Smith Military Reservation a few miles to the south and on the opposite side of the Hudson River from West Point, three black suburban’s with the combined cargo of fourteen passengers and their fortifications had been cleared to pass through the main entry gate. Each man had been asked to provide identification, and the falsified documents in their possession representing various government agencies easily passed inspection. The jet black vehicles with dark tinted windows had been fitted in the pre-dawn hours of that Saturday morning with counterfeit government license plates to complete the ruse, and the carefully hidden arsenal within each had gone undetected.

Once inside the gate, the suburban’s proceeded slowly toward the cluster of buildings near the parade field while those not driving began to remove the weapons hidden within seat cushions, adjoining backrests, and shallow floor compartments of the interior space. Those weapons included two Hawk MM-1 MGL semi-automatic grenade launchers for a pair of jumpers within the first wave, and Denel PAW-20 Neopup semi-automatic grenade launchers for the remaining twelve of both waves. The former was a cold war relic of American design that used 40x46mm ammunition in a twelve round rotating drum magazine, and the weapon had an effective range of nearly two hundred fifty yards. The South African made PAW-20 Neopup, at slightly over thirty-three inches in length was eight inches longer than the American Hawk, with the 20x42mm point detonated ammunition being delivered from a six round rotary drum. Although possessing the benefits of roughly three and a half times the effective range as the Hawk at eight hundred seventy five yards, and being much lighter when fully loaded, the rounds were not designed to create the same level of structural damage that the Hawk could produce. Their intent was to have more pinpoint accuracy with regard to the desired impact location, and spray out from that detonation point with a killing radius of about ten meters.

In addition to the grenade launchers, each of the fourteen assailants would also be carrying another shoulder holstered weapon. An American made semi-automatic AR-15 rifle had been selected over the Czech made AK-47 for the simple facts of having a more reliable and accurate range along with a lighter overall weight. Although the AK-47 had been widely used by various factions throughout the globe for many years, its limited range of precision at perhaps one hundred yards would not be good enough for the current undertaking. Along with the various weapons themselves, Samuel and his black market contacts had been able to procure thirty round magazines that could be emptied in about seven seconds for the AR-15’s as opposed to the standard issue twenty round clips. With a loaded magazine and eight more accessible reserve clips on their person, each man was equipped with two hundred seventy rounds of 5.56x40mm killing projectiles that were easily reloadable and could be fired in less than two minutes. As a final weapon, each of the fourteen would have a thigh rig for a handheld 45-caliber pistol containing a ten round magazine with an additional bullet in the pipe.

Once parked, the fourteen men dressed in black suits carrying large duffel bags of gear were hardly noticed as they moved toward the nearest building. Intelligence reports from a friend stationed inside the Pentagon had provided the organization with the location of which building would be used by the jumpers as they prepared for the upcoming drop, so with that knowledge, the black suited force quietly commandeered a large interior room that would be suitable for their purpose. Then they began a systematic attack on those men who were scheduled to jump in a few hours.

One by one each of the fourteen parachutists were singled out and distracted by a man posing as a government agent on a fact finding inspection tour, and subsequently taken from behind by another with a strong arm and a hand held rag full of chloroform. After being rendered unconscious and relieved of their respective jumpsuits, each was tied and gagged in the event that the drug wore off prematurely and moved into one of a series of small closets. No hoods were necessary to eclipse their vision of the attackers should they awaken, as none of those soldiers would ever see the light of day again. Once all fourteen had been accounted for, each man was injected with a lethal dose of nerve toxin. The toxin had been developed by United States government labs to shut down the human circulatory system within minutes, and the hope was that the claim would be accurate. If so, then the men would never be conscious of the injections effect on them. Unfortunately a few of them convulsed with open eyes near the bitter end, so a harsh truth was revealed.