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    Hondo, This Is CFB Cold Lake
    Hondo, This Is CFB Cold Lake
    Hondo, This Is CFB Cold Lake
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    Hondo, This Is CFB Cold Lake

    By Ben Prewitt

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    2014. Russia has invaded Canada. Flight Captain Terry Sanders is one F/A-18C Hornet pilot with something to say about that.

    Ben Prewitt's intimate short story of a conflict that might've been features aerobatic thrills and a human touch to produce a gripping tale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSea Lion Press
    Release dateJul 15, 2017
    ISBN9781536524024
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      Hondo, This Is CFB Cold Lake - Ben Prewitt

      This is a work of fiction. While ‘real-world’ characters may appear, the nature of the divergent story means any depictions herein are fictionalised and in no way an indication of real events. Above all, characterisations have been developed with the primary aim of telling a compelling story.

      Published by Sea Lion Press, 2017. All rights reserved.

      To every person who dragged me out of a bar, and every idea that dragged me in front of a keyboard.

      Author's Note

      This story had its impetus in my own path through life, relationships, and a video game, Endwar, that I felt particularly peeved about. It was cathartic to write, and I hope it's enjoyable to read.

      Hondo 1

      2,000 Feet over CFB Cold Lake

      March 4th 2014

      Flight Captain Terry Sanders, USMC, guided the F/A-18C Hornet through the crowded airspace over Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake.

      Hondo Flight, Tower. You are clear for approach on runway one-six, wind is at 6 knots east to west. Watch for slight snow on the back quarter. Follow the C-130 in. The Cold Lake traffic control station was spitting out a stream of radio calls to the air around him, and Sanders hadn’t seen such crowded air since he’d left the ground at AMARC in the Arizona desert. It had taken two tanker refuelings, the last over Minot in North Dakota, to get him here, and now he could see at least a dozen aircraft outside his canopy.

      Tower, Hondo. Copy that. Making approach now.

      Sanders dropped his Hornet slowly, waiting for the runway to open up before him. Amazingly, it was clear and lit like a Christmas tree.

      I thought this was a war? He silently thanked his lucky stars.

      Ahead of him, a Canadian C-130 was dropping almost like a rock. Its approach speed was slower than his Hornet’s, but it could get away with a slower speed without stalling. Now that he looked around again, he noticed that the aircraft around him were all C-130s in holding patterns or smaller CT-133 Shooting Stars. The other Hornet that had come up with him from AMARC was the only fighter-type aircraft he saw.

      The Hornet couldn’t have responded any better, and Sanders had the aircraft on the ground in barely a minute, out of the scrum of transports and trainers.

      Hondo Flight, Tower. Welcome to Canada. Taxi your birds to the northernmost hangar, and we’ll have some chow waiting for you.

      The Hornets followed their taxiing instructions, moving down the ramp and up to the hangar, farther away from the rest of the base and surrounded by two Hawk anti-aircraft missile batteries. The hangars they were directed into looked the same from the outside, but from the inside Sanders could see they were hardened with concrete and some other material he couldn’t place. Once one of the crew chiefs gave him the okay to kill his engines, he flipped open the canopy and took off his helmet just in time to see a head pop up over the side of his cockpit, followed by a gloved hand offering him a coffee.

      Welcome to Cold Lake, sir! The man smiled. Most guys either want the coffee or a bathroom, depending on whether they’ve just decided to piss themselves.

      Sanders smiled and leaned his head back, taking the coffee from the crew chief. I just need the coffee, actually.

      Well, sir, we’re going to need to get you out of the cockpit right now, sir. These planes are being moved up immediately. We’ve got pilots from Bagotville yelling in French how they need these planes out at Iqaluit.

      Mess Hall

      CFB Cold Lake

      March 4th 2014

      By the time Sanders had finished his second helping of jello, the news on the television mounted in the corner of the room was starting again. Like most cafeterias back home, he could hear it more than see it, especially during a crisis. The two CBC commentators, one of which he recognized in a faint way as having been in a uniform at one point or another, were talking over footage of the conflict.

      -as expected, General MacKenzie?

      Well, yes, Carol. I’m sure you’ve probably shown by now that the initial strikes weren’t too bad, and I’ve talked to a few of my sources in the naval community and they’re saying that it didn’t get out of the Bay.

      So, unofficially, there was only one submarine?

      Carol, I can’t say for sure, but it looks like there was just one, and we got it. The hardest part now, of course, will be the clean up.

      A young NCO near the television shook his fist in the air and yelled, as the television picture switched to a shot of a Canadian Sea King helicopter flying low over rough water, about three or four kilometers from the nearest shoreline.

      That’s how you do it! Oughta nuke 'em! The NCO looked around the mess hall, suddenly realizing he was the only one screaming. Sanders noticed the wind went out of his sails rather quick.

      ’e is very... A man set a lunch tray down beside him. The first thing Sanders noticed was that the man wore a Canadian Air Force flight suit. ...over-excited. The man offered his hand. I am Captain Romeo Lefours, I’ll be flying the bird you brought up. I just thought I’d stop by and talk to you about the aircraft. Find out if there’s any quirks you found out about on the way up from the desert. He looked up at the T.V., which was back to showing a Coyote LAV driving through what the caption said in big caps was HYDER. What did they say about that submarine?

      You got here at the tail-end. It managed to take a pot shot with an anti-ship missile into a container ship in the St. Lawrence from Hudson Bay. It sounds like you had a destroyer on station and happened to catch it. Sanders shoveled another mouthful of jello. They got the whole thing from shore. The Navy was throwing enough depth charges at ‘em to lower the Bay floor another few feet.

      They haven’t even mentioned the other one yet.

      Sanders stopped chewing and looked at him. What other one?

      I was flying CAP for the planes that laid the mines to close the Bay a week ago. The Navy chased two subs in, and we closed the door behind them. Right after they got that one, we nailed the other one when it ran into the mine line.

      He could barely even remember the last time the US had had that kind of action. Sub hunting? He’d never even seen one, except for that time flying around

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