CW3 Spaight looked as if he was intently engrossed with the magazine that he was holding in his hands, but the reality couldn't be further from the truth. He was covertly studing each of the men and women in the Blackhawk. He wasn't to happy with his current assignment that GEN Paine had given him. To act as an advisor for some new<em>Secnod Lieutenant,</em>all because some bloody US Senator had decided to take a interest in their career... Politics really should be kept far away from a military career.<br/><br/>CW3 Spaight grimaced at the thought that during an election year that politicians would use the lives of soldiers as pawn peices to get extra votes. The majority of them only took an interest in the men and women in uniform when it was politically expediant for them to do so.<br/><br/>While CW3 Spaight had no problems with women in combat, he found the way that SEN Clinton had spearheaded the implimentation of the EFCP (Evaluation of Female Combat Personnel) Program as repulsive. It was bad enough that he remembered then-President William Jefferson 'Bill' Clinton's meddling with the investigation of over a hundred homosexual rape cases while he was actively attempting to change policies that would allow openly Homosexuals to be allowed in the service. While CW3 Spaight didn't have a problem with homosexuals in the service, the underhanded way that then-President Clinton had went about it just rubbed him wrong.<br/><br/>Right now he was trying to get his mind ready for the mission at hand. He was to carry out a deep penetration raid with 3rd Platoon, Baker Company, 3rd of the 511th Infantry Regiment (Parachute) as back-up for he and his Delta Detachment. This would not only be the first combat mission for 2LT Rook, it would be her first command. It was a requirement that SEN Boxer demanded that Rook and her platoon be placed in a position that would get a great deal of positive publicity for the Evaluation of Female Combat Personnel Program. CW3 Spaight hated to be used for political gain for anyone.<br/><br/>But he had a secondary mission. One that had been assigned by GEN Paine to find out exactly just what the hell that Rep. Hanson could have been possibily upto that  would have done that got him and his entire family murdered by FARC Operatives. Something just wasn't adding up... And it was such a quandry that GEN Paine had taken him from his assignment to try and find out just how large an organization that the international terrorist network "The Righteous Path" had become. The Righteous Path been created as an affliate of Osama bin Ladin's al-Qeada terror network, using non-Muslims and those Muslims that didn't look Arabic.<br/><br/>Ever since it was learned that Venzeulean President Hugo Chavez had started to fund the modernization of the weapons, equipment and training of FARC, the Pentagon realized that war was on the horizon... Sooner, rather than later. And with the United States Armed Forces spread thin fighting the Global War on Terror.<br/><br/>CW3 Spaight had just spent three weeks in the Democratic Republic of Calstinopa ("República Democrática de Calstinopa") tracking down leads about the leadership of 'The Righteous Path' ("Trajeto de Righteous") operating their under the charismatic leadership of Dr. José Vasquez, Ph.D.<br/><br/>At one time, Dr. José Vasquez had been a popular idealistic university professor who taught history and philosophy at the University of Calstinopa. But over time Dr. Vasquez had become disillusioned with the Roman Catholic faith, and turned his classes into a soapbox to speak out against the power of the Catholic Church. But it did not just stop there, he started to speak out against when the Calstinopan government, and publicly started to lead protests against the Calstinopan government's participation in the American Global War on Terror.<br/><br/>Dr. José Vasquez became associated with Osama bin Laden thanks to Halik Mossa, an American Muslim who has became one of the most wanted international terrorist organizers. And it appeared that "Trajeto de Righteous" had contacts here in Columbia that was supplying them with funding. But what frightened CW3 Spaight was the possiblity that "The Righteous Path" had started another branch in Columbia... Using the Drug Cartels as a means to raise the money to fund their operations around the world. Funding that no one could be able to track back to Osama bin Laden and his other money men.<br/><br/>CW3 Spaight looked around the passenger compartment of the Blackhawk and smiled. "Well kids," he said to the rest of the men and women. "It looks like we have arrived at Camp Angel..."