Rather than sign on for another three years Corporal of Horse Tennant became Constable Tennant and attended the Metropolitan Police Training School at Hendon.
I have not given Mr Kirkland a political party affiliation. It does not really have any bearing on the story whether he is a Republican or a Democrat, he represents America in this story.
At the start of the tale the President has no affection, nor enmity either, for the military as he is just an academic who found himself in politics without actually encountering the military along the way.
I have left him as a good man but with a few flaws, because he is only human, and one who happens to be in the chair when a war starts.
My apology for coming up with a wholly unoriginal villain. He is Charles Dance (with his bad head on) and Vlad the Impalers more sadistic brother.
A man with no redeeming features, megalomania, a serious case of psychosis and probably halitosis too!
“Ey, kak dela?” (“How are you doin’?”)
I had a platoon commander once who was pretty much the suave and dashing Nikoli. The Joey Tribbiani of British Airborne Forces, until injury forced a change of pace, and he came to us. I was never quite sure whether the injury was caused by landing badly after jumping out of an aircraft, or a bedroom window?
Good officer and a good soldier.
Flt Lt Rich is very similar to a former double glazing salesman from Melbourne who joined my team in the 80’s. He spoke about Australian celebrities as if they were friends and neighbours. He had the gift of the gab and Paul Hogan should have charged him royalties for all the lines Neil stole. He developed into a pretty good copper too.
The only Russian spook I have ever met, knowingly, wore a pinstripe suit, the regimental tie of the Hampshire Regiment and spoke English with an accent a 1950’s BBC newsreader would have been proud of.
The Cast
Theodore Kirkland
The President
Gen Henry Shaw USMC
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Terry Jones
Director CIA
Joseph Levi
CSA, Chief Science Advisor
Art Petrucci
CIA Chief of Station, London
Max Reynolds
CIA Langley
Scott Tafler
CIA Langley
Alicia O’Connor
Computer game programmer
Ben Dupre
Director FBI
Dr David Bowman
USS Commanche
Admiral C Dalton
USS John F Kennedy
Admiral Conrad Mann
USS Gerald Ford
Admiral Lucas Bagshaw
USS Nimitz
Captain Joe Hart
USS Commanche
Captain Rick Pitt
USS Twin Towers
Commander Kenny Willis
USS Nimitz
Lt Cmdr. Natalie Shaw
USS Orange County
Lt Col Matthew Shaw
USS Bonhomme Richard
Lt Nikki Pelham USN
USS John F Kennedy & USS Nimitz
Lt (jg) Candice LaRue
USS Nimitz
Col Omar Chandler
USAF
Major Caroline Nunro
USAF
Captain Patricia Dudley
USAF
Major Glenn Morton
USAF
Lt Col ‘Jaz’ Redruff
USAF, AC Air Force One
Major Sara Pebanet
USAF, Co-pilot Air Force One
Sgt Nancy Palo
USAF Air Force One
Major Jim Popham
82nd Airborne
Lt Col Arndeker
USAF
Captain Garfield Brooks
Green Berets
Senator Walt Rickham
US Senate
General ‘Duke’ Thackery
5th US Mechanised Bde
RSM Arnie Moore
82nd Airborne
Captain Daniel King
Black Horse Cavalry
Master Sergeant Bart Kopak
Black Horse Cavalry
Admiral Maurice Bernard
Charles De Gaulle
Admiral Albert Venesioux
Jeanne d’Arc, ASW Group
Lt Arnoud Bertille
21e Régiment d'Infanterie de Marine
Colonel Villiarin
Cebu guerrilla forces
Sergeant ‘Bat’ Ramos
Philippines National Police
Vadim Letacev
Premier
Admiral Pyotr Petorim
Red Fleet
Marshal Gorgy Ortan
Army Group West
General of Aviation Arkity Sudukov
Air Force
General Tomokovsky
Army Group West
Svetlana Vorsoff
KGB ‘Sleeper’
Anatoly Peridenko
1st Chairmen of reformed KGB
Elena Torneski
2nd Chairman of KGB
Alexandra Berria
KGB stringer
Col Gen Serge Alontov
6th Guards Airborne
Lt Nikoli Bordenko
6th Guards Airborne
Major Constantine Bedonavich
Deputy Military Attaché, London
Vice Admiral Karl Putchev
Mao
Perry Letteridge
Prime Minister
Gen Norris Monroe
1st Brigade
Cmdr. Reg Hollis
HMAS Hooper
LS Craig Devonshire
HMAS Hooper
AB Philip Daly
HMAS Hooper
AB Stephanie Priestly
HMAS Hooper