Military Homecomings
Adventure · fiction

What the Jacket Carried

My call sign is Reaper. I fly the F-15E Strike Eagle. And until Colonel Richard Bains decided my jacket was more dangerous than the enemy we were preparing to strike, I had never imagined a piece of worn leather could bring fifty military officers to complete silence. The briefing room at Al Udeid Air Base was freezing. It...

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Adventure
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Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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Military Homecomings

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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