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Acknowledgments
This confidential Veritas mission report regarding the collapse of the Buryshkin drug cartel was compiled by:
Chandler Steele (
www.ChandlerSteele.com
), archivist.
Mollie Traver (
www.MollieTraver.com
) served as content advisor, and offered both editorial and copy-editing expertise.
Helena Ramos who served as our Portuguese translator.
Clarissa Yeo (
www.YoclaDesigns.com
) who created the striking cover design.
Veritas deeply appreciates their assistance—and their discretion—in this matter.
Mission Notes
Before Veritas undertakes a mission, a comprehensive background dossier is compiled to assess the potential for success or failure of that mission. Here are some of the more interesting items gleaned from the mission code-named KILLNG GAME:
Returning veterans face many complex issues: finding jobs, reintegrating into society and dealing with physical and mental health problems. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder occurs in anywhere from 11-22% of returning Afghanistan and Iraq war vets, and is even higher for those who served in the Vietnam War. Not all vets can find their way out of the darkness: Nearly eight thousand commit suicide each year, an average of 22 per day.
In 2015 it was estimated that nearly
fifty thousand
vets were homeless. The vast majority were male (over 90%), and nearly half of those had mental or physical health disabilities. Women are not excluded from the homeless ranks, often dealing with mental health issues secondary to sexual trauma sustained during their service.
Where women were not allowed in combat, they can be “attached” to a Special Ops, thereby skirting the ban. Working within that “loophole”, the Marine’s Female Engagement Teams (FET) were utilized primarily during the Iraq and Afghan wars.
In 2012 they were phased out, but recently the Marine Corps has indicated they will be reinstituted. The Army also had a similar program (Cultural Support Teams) which interacted with village women. The book ASHLEY’S WAR talks about being part of a CST, and the ultimate cost of 1st Lt. White’s service to her country.
Where much attention has been focused on threats from overseas terrorists post 9/11, homegrown threats have continued to grow, and, in many ways, have begun to eclipse those from outside the country. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, over three hundred thousand people are involved in various separatist movements, including white supremacist groups such as Aryan Nations, as well as Stormfront, League of the South, Posse Comitatus, and numerous Christian Identity groups (to name a few).
One common thread running throughout these groups is the belief that the federal government is corrupt and does not legally hold power over American citizens. That revolution is often the only solution, rather than then ballot box. The sovereign citizen movements began in the late 1960’s and gained traction in the 1980s. With the standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge, their numbers increased dramatically. That increase continued after the inauguration of a black president in 2008.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/terror-threat-homeland-security/
Over the years, militia members have stockpiled weapons and resorted to extreme violence to make their cause known. The most notable of these was Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma (1995). Other targets have included synagogues, black churches, federal marshals, local law enforcement and other government personnel. In essence, anyone they deem “the enemy.”
In the end, KILLING GAME’s mission came down to the tenacity and skills of two of America’s finest warriors against those who would destroy what it is that makes our country free. Fortunately, Hardegree and Landry were up to the task. Or as Cait would put it, “Mess with the best, die like the rest.”
Chandler Steele
Published by
Steele Romance
P.O. Box 1126
Norcross, GA 30091
This work is a novel of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales, is entirely coincidental.
Killing Game
ISBN: 978-1-941527-09-2
Copyright ©2016 Chandler Steele
Cover Image/Art: Yocla Designs
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