Another Excerpt from Dead Pulse, by K. Michael Gibson. There was only one major flaw in his plan, the bridge leading toward that particular area of the airport was just blown to smithereens, which meant of course we were going to have to back track to the side roads and make our way around. Which was going to add more time than I wanted to give, personally I just wanted to start hoofing it home but I knew on foot the thirty mile or so trek might as well have been a hundred especially if whatever this was affecting the towns folk had spread beyond the roadway we currently occupied. As much as I hated to admit it I understood why Homeland had launched the attack, in my previous experience with the military I had seen such atrocities take place in the jungles of the Congo while squaring off against militant warlords whom threatened to overthrow and destabilize the region. My unit was sent in to gather covert intelligence on their troop movements and assist the local government in quelling such uprisings. There were quite frankly several times my team and I could have taken down several of the power players who ran these militant groups; however our hands were completely tied with bureaucratic red tape I hated that s!!## but alas we were on strict orders to remain eyes only lest we inadvertently cause some kind of international incident even though we resided there for the simple reason that their own government had requested it, but I guessed that the African government feared looking weak amongst their own people when Americans were doing their dirty work. During one of our reconnaissance missions into the jungle we witnessed a small village become afflicted with one of Africa’s infamous strains of Ebola. As men and women fell ill, surrounding tribes did their best to quarantine and isolate themselves from it but as the disease spread and killed with quick and cold precision. The remaining un-afflicted peoples took action burning homes and even entire villages in an effort to contain the deadly infection
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