The mission to put things right, the extraction!

“walk with me Captain”

“Aye sir”

“Now Captain Cherry you are clear exactly what your task is today and your wing-man right!”

“Yes sir”

“As clever as you are and I know you’re clever I’ve seen your file. However you’re mission is to provide air cover for my troops as the come out of Beta area, we clear?”

“Crystal sir and my wing-man we are clear sir we will do what we have to do sir”

“Cherry you will do what your told! Anything comes near that Chinook you despatch it to Mecca!”

“You can rely on us sir”

“Excellent! Good luck Captain T-3 minutes to extraction get mounted and get up there!”

Captain Cherry spooled up the turbo-jet engines with re-heat and sat on the runway with temperatures over 100 degrees.

“Tower do I have a green light to launch?”

“Roger Blue 1 and blue 2 you launch now”

“The jet engines screamed up to 80% power on the two F-15-E fighting eagles”

“Blue 1 your friendly is at 25 miles due East do you have the friendly on scope?”

“Roger control, we are inbound and supersonic, Sparrow missiles are armed and the cannon pod is loaded”

“Command! We are taking enemy ground fire and we have two hostile birds approaching us from the North! Command get those friendly birds here and now!”

“This Blue 1 we are inbound do not panic we have your bogeys on scope engaging shortly”

“Blue 1 were hit the back rotor is smoking were losing height get here now!”

“Friendly bird bank to port I am engaging Mirage fighter!”

“Control Sparrow missile is locked and honing in on the Northern Mirage”

“Control two seconds to impact!”

“Control this is blue 2 Blue 1 has confirmed the kill Mirage 1 is Tango Uniform”

“Command we have been hit again we are losing height we be going in hard! My co-pilot is dead. Get these sons of bitches away from my men!”