mountain time, Captain Smythe received GPScoordinates for the ranch, detailed attack plans, and orders to attack. If all went according to plan, they would flyin from the south over the Vermilion Cliffs and attack the ranch just afternightfall.At seven forty-five p.m. From there it was only160 miles to Christmas Ranch. Prior to the attack,Smythe’s squad made the 375-mile flight to northern Nevada, where thehelicopters landed at a private airport and refueled. The helicopter squad not only hadexperience in attacking the resistance’s ranch, but they were also the onlyunit within three thousand miles of the target.The two operations were launched simultaneously. Afterthree delays caused by weather, the squad was still in Mexico and ready forthe mission Hatch was sending them on.
39Christmas RanchWhile Operation Mute was being carried out on the other sideof the world, Captain Smythe, the same commander who had led the attackon Timepiece Ranch in northern Mexico, had commenced his own operation.Smythe’s helicopter squad had been static since the Timepiece attack,awaiting a transport to Tuvalu, which would require a boat since it was muchtoo far for the helicopters to fly.
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