American Revolution, Rudux Sample Reading Two

Gunnery Sergeant, Jason Baxter, had his keys out and running full speed down the crowded narrow hallway towards the munitions lockers. There's no time to waste, we’re in Red Alert. Go, go, go, go! rushed through his mind. His hands quivering. The keys jingling nervously. "Where's that damn master key?"

As Baxter rounded the corner from the narrow hallway, the munitions cage attendant, Jacobs called out, “Throw the keys here Gunny, I’ll get em rollin.”

All of the militia members who were on call that day dropped what they were doing and began double timing to and fro around the compound when they heard the Red Alert blaring in their ears as if it rang in their personal headsets.

Baxter flung the keys in the direction of the cage’s window as if he were the star of today’s championship basketball game with one point down, and he had only seconds left to throw that long ball clear across the court to score the needed points to win the game.

Jacobs had his hands out like the small almost nonexistent hoop which was so far away and ready to catch that long “Hail Mary” toss.

Smack! The keys hit dead center in the Jacobs hands. “Two points, Gunny,” Jacobs called out; Gunny just smiled as he made his way through the crowded area to the cage.

Without further ado, the members of the Lexington Militia had fallen in formation at the cage area to receive their weapons and ammunition.

Upon receipt of their equipment, they began to double time it to their assigned duty stations around the compound both inside and outside of the compound, just like in their drills.

If one were to watch as they all worked efficiently and precisely in manning their positions, one would think that they were a drill team performing their routine on the football field at half time.

At that moment, Jefferson got a call on his Satellite Ultra Frequency Random Accessing headset. This headset looks like a “Bluetooth” unit but did not use radio frequency like the Bluetooth.

The SUFRA headset was cutting edge technology that only the Lexington Militia Unit had access to and was experimenting with it.

This exclusive SUFRA headset has access to over one billion frequencies per transmission, never duplicating the same signal more than once during any transmission in a week’s period.

“Jefferson here.”

“General, this is Sergeant Brody Hensley on quarters patrol here at your residence. I think you need to come home right away, sir.”

“Why Sergeant, what’s wrong?”

“I’d rather not say, sir. But it’s an emergency due to the Red Alert.”

A long silence appeared on the SUFRA.

“General, are you there, sir?”