Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, CHAPTER 36
FLIGHTS OF NECESSITY
Carol Brightling stood in her office. She'd just printed up a letter to the chief of staff saying that she'd be taking a leave of absence to work on a special scientific project. She'd discussed this matter with Arnie van Damm earlier in the day and gotten no serious objection to her departure. She would not be missed, his body language had told her quite clearly. Well, she thought with a cold look at the computer screen, neither would he, when it came to that.
Dr. Brightling tucked the letter in an envelope, sealed it, and left it on her assistant's desk for transfer into the White House proper the next day. She'd done her job for the Project and for the planet, and it was now time for her to leave. It had been so long, so very long, since she'd felt John's arms around her. The divorce had been well publicized. It had had to be: She would never have gotten the White House job if she'd been married to one of the country's richest men. And so, she'd forsworn him, and he'd publicly forsworn the movement, the beliefs they'd both held ten years before when they'd formulated the idea for the Project, but he'd never stopped believing, any more than she had. And so she'd gotten all the way inside the government, and gotten a security clearance that gave her access to literally everything, even operational intelligence, which she then forwarded to John when he needed it. Most especially, she'd gotten access to biological-warfare information, so that they knew what USAMRIID and others had done to protect America, and so knew how to engineer Shiva in such a way as to defeat any proposed vaccine except those which Horizon Corporation had formulated.
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 4/27/2025 ( ) is 9764 days
9764 = 4882 + 4882
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/16/1979 ( premiere USA film "The China Syndrome" ) is 4882 days
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, CHAPTER 34
"That's why we're here, isn't it?" Maclean asked with a smile.
"You bet. Too many people fucking up the place with electric toothbrushes and cars and ugly-ass houses."
"I brought Foster into the Project," Mark Waterhouse replied. He'd known Maclean for years.
"All briefed in?" Killgore asked. "Yes, sir, and it's all fine with me. You know, I always wondered what it was like to be Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith. Maybe now I can find out, give it a few years."
"About five," Maclean said, "according to our computer projections."
"Bridger? Smith?" Popov asked.
"They were Mountain Men," Hunnicutt told the Russian. "They were the first white men to see the West, and they were legends, explorers, hunters, Indian fighters."
"Yeah, it's a shame about the Indians."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:26 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 06/05/2025
