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Major Beale concentrated on keeping her rotors clear as she backed off from the Stratotanker. A blink revealed nothing but darkness beyond her windscreen so she blinked back to focus on the clear image projected on her visor of the tanker reeling in the two dangling fuel lines.
The additional fuel made the Black Hawk maneuver differently because of the additional mass in the tanks. The major’s body adjusted automatically to the change, leaving her free to consider Sergeant Davis’ last statement.
So, Connie was Ron Davis’ girl. She hadn’t connected that, despite seeing his name in the Army file. Davis’ file hadn’t mentioned that the man named in the “father” box had also been a highly decorated sergeant first class. A chief mechanic for the 101st Airborne’s Combat Aviation Brigade, th
