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seldom wore uniforms and grew their hair out and often had facial hair too.  Going onto any Military base in the US sometimes poised problems, when entering through the main gate and showing a military ID, the guards would look at you skeptically.  In some cases there were confrontations with Post Commanders who had strict policies on Army grooming and uniform standards while on “their” base.  In some cases calls were made to DA (Department of the Army) to get rules and regulations clarified regarding SFOD-D personnel.  In every case the Post Commanders lost. 
                  It had taken John a long time to get here but he had found his calling, finally. 

Chapter Five
     
    Dognillo had come around telling everyone to gear up they were jumping in fifteen mikes (minutes).   Everyone collected their gear and chuted up, they checked and double checked each other, couldn’t be careful enough on night jumps.
                  The pilot announced they were over the DZ (drop zone) and it was time to go, green light.  With the ramp down the team exited the aircraft.  They jumped at eighteen thousand feet, each had an oxygen mask and bottled oxygen which gave each man a certain amount of breathable air until they were at a point they no longer needed them.  Chutes would automatically deploy, hopefully, just below radar detection. 
                  Everyone hit the drop zone successfully at a little after 0400, they gathered their chutes and buried them in so doing they also tried to make the area where they buried them look as normal as possible in case some goat herder wondered by.  Why a goat herder? Because it always seems to be a goat herder that gets them into trouble.
                  They double checked all their gear again and took off at a run to get to their objective a few klicks away.  They still needed to set up some type of road black that wouldn’t look too out-of-place.  The terrain they had to run over wasn’t too bad; it was a forested and mountainous, with lots of hills. 
                  It took them thirty minutes to get to the objective, once there they determined a simple tree fall across the road would be easy enough to stop the trucks and they wouldn’t know if it was an act of nature or not without getting out to check.  That task was easily accomplished in ten minutes by two team members, while the rest got into positon.
                  Major Clayton got into a position where he could see traffic coming down the road; they were expecting their prey within the next ten minutes or so and seriously hoped that no other vehicles would be on the road at this time of morning.  They didn’t use hand signals to convey messages this time as they were too far apart, each man had a radio type headset which allowed them to talk to each other.  Major Clayton checked on the team status and each man reported that they were five-by-five (ready to go).
                  Major Clayton reported to the team that he could see two sets of headlights heading their way, looking through his night vision scope he could see they were trucks and looked like the trucks they had seen a week ago back in the camp.  He put out the word to the team that there were two vehicles headed their way which looked to be the target vehicles and they would be at their location in about five mikes.
                  The two trucks passed Major Clayton who was then able to clearly identify the vehicles as the ones they were looking for, he put out the word again and reminded them they needed the trucks, just kill the occupants.  Major Clayton took off from his position to join the rest of the team on the assault on the trucks.
                  The two trucks pulled up to the log that had fallen sort of at a weird angle across the road effectively blocking it.  It wasn’t in the road but had fallen across the road and had