"Роберт Догерти. Зона 51 (engl) " - читать интересную книгу автора

Faced with the
prospect of going back to the logging
camps, Turcotte
had enlisted the aid of the lieutenant colo-
nel in charge of
the small army ROTC program at the
university. They'd
found a friendly doctor to fudge on the
physical and the
army had picked up where the football
team had fallen
off.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Turcotte had graduated
with a degree in forestry and
T-143 HOURS received a commission
in the army. His first assignment
had been with the
infantry in the Tenth Mountain Division.
"Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" The pace at Fort
Drum had proved too slow and first
Mike Turcotte turned with a blank expression to the man chance he had, Turcotte
had volunteered for Special
who had spoken. "Excuse me?" Forces training.
The warrant officer giving him his Special
The other man chuckled. "I heard you came here from Forces physical
had looked at the scars on his knee and
those high-speed counterterrorist boys in Germany, but I signed off on the
paperwork with a wink, figuring anyone
like that response. Don't know nothing, didn't come from crazy enough to
try Special Forces wasn't going to let a
nowhere. That's good. You'll fit in well here." little thing like
a reconstructed knee stop him.
The man's name was Prague, at least that was how he But it almost
had. During the intense selection and as-
had introduced himself to Turcotte earlier in the evening sessment training
the knee had stayed swollen, causing
when they'd met at McCarren Airport. Upon meeting him Turcotte intense
pain. He'd walked on it nonetheless, fin-
Turcotte had immediately sized up the other man physi- ishing the long
overland movements with heavy rucksack as
cally. Prague was a tall, lean man, with black eyes and a quickly as he could,
as his classmates fell by the wayside.
smooth, expressionless face. His build contrasted with After starting with
two hundred and forty men, at the end
Turcotte's, which was average height, just shy of five feet of training there
were slightly over a hundred left and
ten inches. Turcotte's physique was not one of bulging mus- Turcotte was one
of them.
cles but rather the solid, thick muscular physique some Turcotte had loved
the Special Forces and served in vari-