Godzilla: Monstrous apocalypse
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:26 pmDisclaimer: Godzilla and all related material belong to Toho Studios.
Godzilla: Monstrous apocalypse
Chapter 1: Blood Red Sands.
Annapolis, Maryland
November, 2009.
As he walked through the grounds of the US Naval Academy, Rear-Admiral Andrew Bergen felt the ghosts and memories that still harbored around this place. Although he did not believe completely about the spiritual, Bergen had visited enough battlefield sights to believe that some ghosts still haunted the battlefields in which they fell. While walking through the grounds, he thought about the how he arrived at this point in time.
After graduating from the academy and winning his gold wings, Andrew served in the first Gulf War before heading to the Pacific to serve in a special task force over there until 1994 when exhaustion sent him home. He was soon flying again back in the Middle East and the Mediterranean before achieving command in 2003 of a carrier group in the Atlantic Fleet.
It was the tour of duty in East Asia and the recent conflicts in the Middle East that occupied his mind as he waited for a colleague of his to arrive. While agreeing in principle operations in Afghanistan, he along with a good number of other officers had opposed the invasion of Iraq and many of them resigned voluntarily or the bellicose administration forced them out. Andrew counted himself lucky as well as a few of his colleagues for escaping the wrath of their civilian superiors. That didn’t lighten the admiral’s mood for several of the discharged officers had also served in Japan during the early-mid 1990s and knew what to look for if the enemy they battled in Asia returned from the shadows.
Several footsteps broke his thoughts and he turned to face his visitor, another rear-admiral who he had served with for many years. She was a tall dark haired woman with brown eyes, a stunningly beautiful face, and reflexes that could only come with piloting an aircraft off a carrier. Fortunately she had a relaxed smile as she greeted him, “I guess we should be lucky that we both had time offâ€
Godzilla: Monstrous apocalypse
Chapter 1: Blood Red Sands.
Annapolis, Maryland
November, 2009.
As he walked through the grounds of the US Naval Academy, Rear-Admiral Andrew Bergen felt the ghosts and memories that still harbored around this place. Although he did not believe completely about the spiritual, Bergen had visited enough battlefield sights to believe that some ghosts still haunted the battlefields in which they fell. While walking through the grounds, he thought about the how he arrived at this point in time.
After graduating from the academy and winning his gold wings, Andrew served in the first Gulf War before heading to the Pacific to serve in a special task force over there until 1994 when exhaustion sent him home. He was soon flying again back in the Middle East and the Mediterranean before achieving command in 2003 of a carrier group in the Atlantic Fleet.
It was the tour of duty in East Asia and the recent conflicts in the Middle East that occupied his mind as he waited for a colleague of his to arrive. While agreeing in principle operations in Afghanistan, he along with a good number of other officers had opposed the invasion of Iraq and many of them resigned voluntarily or the bellicose administration forced them out. Andrew counted himself lucky as well as a few of his colleagues for escaping the wrath of their civilian superiors. That didn’t lighten the admiral’s mood for several of the discharged officers had also served in Japan during the early-mid 1990s and knew what to look for if the enemy they battled in Asia returned from the shadows.
Several footsteps broke his thoughts and he turned to face his visitor, another rear-admiral who he had served with for many years. She was a tall dark haired woman with brown eyes, a stunningly beautiful face, and reflexes that could only come with piloting an aircraft off a carrier. Fortunately she had a relaxed smile as she greeted him, “I guess we should be lucky that we both had time offâ€