The Fate Of Nations: F.I.R.E. Team Alpha: Book One Read Online Free PDF Page B

activation once they’ve completed those courses. We plan to form them into two other teams similar to Red Team. They’ll be called White and Blue Teams respectively. It will be at least a year before they’re operational, though.”
                  “We have fifty other volunteers that will go through the activation process after all of you have gotten through it,” Hicks continued. “Those volunteers come primarily from conventional infantry units, but there are also some troops from other combat arms units. We’re giving priority to airborne troopers, recon units, and combat engineers with the gene.” Hicks took a breath. “We’ve found more military personnel with the gene, over two hundred, but they come from non-combat support units. We haven’t told any of them about the gene yet but, once you and the next fifty volunteers have had the gene activated and are deployed, we’ll turn those support troops in to infantry troopers, and activate their para-genes. We don’t expected those troops to be a as disciplined or effective as all of you, or the volunteers from combat units we have on standby but, with the para-gene activated, they should more than a match for any enemy unit they come across.”
                  Garba rose from her chair. “Sir, I am curious. How did you test the whole population for the para-gene?” she asked.
                  Hicks answered. “Remember, about eighteen months ago, there was a scare about a new enemy biological weapon?”
                  “Yes, Sir,” Garba said.
                  “We sent medics around to test everyone for exposure and inoculate them,” Hicks continued. “There was no new bio-weapon; we were testing for the para-gene. The inoculations were placebos.”
                  “Sir,” Carter said. “With all due respect, I don’t see how a few hundred troops, even if they are genetically enhanced, can have a real strategic impact on the war. They could have a huge tactical impact in a localized battle-space, but not on a larger scale.”
                  Hicks nodded. “You’re right about that, Major. However, all the testing for the gene isn’t done yet. All the samples have been collected, but the last of them won’t be tested for at least six months. The doctors think that we might be able to put together a whole brigade of paranormals, maybe even a division. A unit like that would be a huge force-multiplier; like the doctor said, a unit of paranormals would be the equivalent of an enemy force ten times as large.”
                  “This is true,” Atkinson agreed. “Our data suggest there may be as many as four to six thousand paranormals within the United States. And, since nearly the entire adult population has been pressed into military service, a division-sized unit of ten to twelve thousand para-normal troops is not an unreasonable goal. Especially considering the presence of some two-hundred thirty thousand Free Nationalist Forces personnel that have also been screened for the pare gene.”
                  “Sir, does the enemy have the ability to activate the para-gene in any of its personnel?” Williams asked.
                  “No,” Hicks responded. “If our intelligence is right, they don’t even know of the gene’s existence.”
                  McNamara looked toward the ceiling and clasped his hands together as though he was praying. “May our intelligence always be right,” he said, as though he were speaking to God. “And not based on computer models,” he added.
                  Hicks ignored the sergeant’s attempt at humor. “I know it’s inevitable that the enemy will eventually discover the gene, and how to activate it. That’s why we fast-tracked the human trials and are pushing you all through the activation process more quickly than the doctors would like. Right now,