<div class="floatleft">(http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-201403/43ad45506d86bb4bce2a2f6c3501a6ed.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Geoffrey Barnes<br/><br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Uriel<br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Sky Ranger<br/><br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Full Team<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Geoff watched as what were his new team of recruits for X-COM one by one gather what little they were allowed to bring with them, the tablets onto the Sky Ranger.   On the side of the sleek looking aircraft was a something that looked like the Rosewell alien and a score of markings by them.  So far there were ten slash marks.  Ten missions that this Sky Ranger had been on.   Next to the alien was also stamps of an angel silhouettes.   Geoff looked hard at them.   He had not known that this Sky Ranger was the one that had delivered his old team on the operation that they did not come back from.   Geoff stared a bit at those markings, hoping that he was not condemning any of these new people to the same fate.<br/><br/>On board the cargo hold, the team would find it not too difficult than jump seats found on other military transport aircraft.   The major difference were the crew lockers set aside that had gear loaded up.   Body armor, modern weaponry and ammunition, communications gear, the works.   It was clear that whoever was behind X-COM, it was clear that they were not nickle and diming the outfit and putting some serious hardware or money behind the effort.   The Sky Ranger was a testament to that as it did a VTL take off, something unheard of for any military transport other than the Osprey, and unlike the Osprey, the Sky Ranger made use of jet assisted instead of turbines.    There was a shudder and vibration through the aircraft as it took off and made its way to its home base.<br/><br/>Or that was the original plan.  The aircraft had not even been in the air for fifteen minutes before Geoff was called way for a priority call from Command.   He was gone for a good ten minutes and during that time the Sky Ranger moved into a holding pattern.   After that conversation, it altered course and was moving away at full throttle.   The reason for this change became clear when Geoff got on the aircraft's intercom and addressed everyone.<br/><br/><strong><em>"Everyone, we have a Priority Mission.   All other X-COM teams are engaged in other operations.   It is clear now that those operations were mere diversions for this event.   The aliens are attacking Cairo.    We cannot let that happen.    Our orders are to engage and eliminate all X-Rays on sight.   It looks like all of you will be going through a baptism by fire.    We will do this in two teams.   Team one is myself, Sauer,  Nicholes, Yoshia, and Skala.   Team two will be Dahl, Colbert, Hardy, O'Byrne, and Steen with O'Byrne as team lead.   Chulski will be coordinating COMMS for the team as well as Command and Control relaying targets to us on the ground.   Chulski, there is a full cyber suite here, your mission when we get on on the ground is to get me eyes.   I want you to use the cyber suite to co-op every camera in the target locations.   We good idea the initial insertion point is of the X-Ray's.  We will go grid by grid till we get everyone of them.   Equipment lockers there have the gear you need.   I will unlock the ammo locker and everyone can suit up and lock and load.   We are forty minutes from green light.   Lets move with a purpose X-COM, time to save lives." </em></strong>