When You Work in the Shadows, You Can Never Walk in the Light

By Billy D. Smith

When You Work in the Shadows is a fictional story and a continuation of Billys first book, A Marines Life in the Shadows. It is a story about Clay Dawson and the associates and friends that have become intertwined in his adventurous life in the Marine Corps and his involvement with the CIA. Clay and his teams exploits against the KGB and other terrorist groups have resulted in many enemies among those adversaries. The KGBs deep hatred of Clay has made them mount an intense effort to locate and lure him out or retirement so as to assassinate him and his wife. This sequel depicts the attempts by Clays two worst KGB nemeses with a deep score to settle to eliminate Clay and his wife, Amy. Will the KGB driven by a need for vengeance and their sworn blood vendetta be successful in their assassination plot where others have tried and fail

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 9, 2009
• ISBN: 9781467049399

Billy D. Smith

Billy was born October 2, 1933 the third child of Charles and Sally Mae Smith in a small Cotton Mill town in Alabama. Billys parents both worked for Handley Manufacturing Company. Billy lived most of his early years on the Mill Village in houses owned by the mill. There he learned to take care of himself, learned right from wrong, the morals of the time, and respect for other people. He learned how people relate to you because of where you live. After attending Handley High School he learned that no matter where you come from you have to make your own reputation and your own life.

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© 2009 Fiction by Billy D. Smith. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 4/14/2009

ISBN: 978-1-4389-3864-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4389-7326-5 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4670-4939-9 (ebk)

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Notice to Readers of:

When You Work in the Shadows, You can Never Walk in the Light

by: Billy D. Smith

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Other Books by Billy D. Smith

My Life as I Remember It, Growing up in Alabama

Autobiography First Published September 11, 2004

ISBN: 1-4184-6108-3(e) – Out Of Print

ISBN: 1-4184-3380-2(sc) – Out Of Print

ISBN: 1-4184-5173-8(dj) – Out Of Print

This autobiography is out of print. It is being revised and updated and will be republished in.

A Marine’s Life in the Shadows, The Reluctant Agent

Fictional Novel First Published November 9, 2006

ISBN: 1-4259-2993-1(sc)

Dedication

This book is dedicated with love to Sally Mae and Charles Smith, My Mom and Dad who worked hard all their lives so their children could have a better life than they had.

They instilled good morals in their children and gave us confidence to become productive adults.

To my Wife, Gail, who passed away April 6, 2008: have given love, joy and understanding to me and our family.

To my Children, Mike and his wife Teresa, and Michelle and her husband Tony; and to my Grandchildren, Ashley, Michael, A. J., Scottie and Gracie, who fill my heart with pride.

Billy D. Smith, 2007

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Alaska Trip 2007

Large log building with painted carvings in Haines Alaska, near old Fort Seward

A MARINE’S LIFE IN THE SHADOWS

THE RELUCTANT AGENT

My name is Clay Dawson. I am lying here in a trench somewhere in South Korea trying to take a hill from the North Koreans. The hill does not have any real value, except the North Koreans have it and someone higher up in our battalion wanted it – in Alabama this land could be bought for about $100.00 per acre. You can’t grow anything on it, but here it is costing the lives of a lot of good men on both sides. A quote from Chapter One.

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Billy D. Smith, MP Guard,

at NAS Jacksonville, Florida, 1955

Novel First Published November 9, 2006 ISBN: 1-4259-2993-1(sc).

"My Life As

I Remember It"

Growing Up In Alabama

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Billy’s brother in Boy Scout Uniform, holding Ma Smith’s dog. Billy holding her cat at her home in Lineville, Alabama around 1941

I have made many mistakes during my life. I tried most of the time not to make the same mistakes, but there were some mistakes that are too much fun to make only once. All these events in my life have had a part in forming me into the person that I am. God has been good to me and when the time comes for me to make an account of my life, I hope that I can say I did the best that I could and did the job he had planned for me. Quote from Introduction by the Author.

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Billy D. Smith in his Handley High School football uniform 1951

The following information is excerpted and quoted verbatim, by express written permission, from:

Marine Corps History Division

3079 Moreell Avenue

Quantico, Virginia 22134

[phone]

http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm

This is a U.S. Government Web Site.

I am including the following paragraphs in this Prologue to When You Work in the Shadows, You Can Never Walk in the Light because these paragraphs are historically accurate.

The quoted paragraphs below provide a background for the plot in When You Work in the Shadows, You Can Never Walk in the Light which is completely fictional. Readers who want a little more information about the history which produced men like Clay Dawson can find it in these paragraphs.

Quoted Item One: Continental Marines established 10 November 1775

Following is a copy of the Resolution Establishing the Continental Marines:

Journal of the Continental Congress

(Philadelphia) Friday, November 10, 1775

Resolved, That two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments; and that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken, that no persons be appointed to office, or enlisted into said Battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea when required; that they be enlisted and commissioned to serve for and during the present war between Great Britain and the colonies, unless dismissed by order of Congress: that they be distinguished by the names of the first and second battalions of American Marines, and that they be considered as part of the number which the continental Army before Boston is ordered to consist of.

Ordered, that a copy of the above be transmitted to the General.

Quoted Item Two: United States Marine Corps established 11 July 1798

Following is a copy of An Act for Establishing and Organizing a Marine Corps in the United States Congress 11 July 1798:

SEC 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in addition to the present military establishment, there shall be raised and organized a corps of marines, which shall consist of …

Quoted Item Three: Excerpts from the National Security Act of 1947, giving information about the relationship between the United States Marine Corps and other branches of the military.

Following is a copy of selected excerpts from the National Security Act of 1947:

Excerpts of Public Law 253-80th Congress, as amended by Public Law 36-81st

Congress and Public Law 216-81st Congress pertaining to the Department of the Navy and the Marine Corps

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

Sec. 206. (a) The term Department of the Navy as used in this Act shall be construed to mean the Department of the Navy at the seat of government; the headquarters, United States Marine Corps; the entire operating force of the United States Navy, including naval aviation, and of the United States Marine Corps, including the reserve components of such forces; all field activities, headquarters, forces, bases, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Department of the Navy; and the United States Coast Guard when operating as a part of the Navy pursuant to law.

(b) In general the United States Navy, within the Department of the Navy, shall include naval combat and services forces and such aviation as may be organic therein. It shall be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained combat incident to operations at sea. It shall be responsible for the preparation of naval forces necessary for the effective prosecution of war except as otherwise assigned, and, in accordance with integrated joint mobilization plans, for the expansion of the peacetime components of the Navy to meet the needs of war.

All naval aviation shall be integrated with the naval service as part thereof within the Department of the Navy. Naval aviation shall consist of combat and service and training forces, and shall include land-based naval aviation, air transport essential for naval operations, all air weapons and air techniques involved in the operations and activities of the United States Navy, and the entire remainder of the aeronautical organization of the United States Navy, together with the personnel necessary therefore.

The Navy shall be generally responsible for naval reconnaissance, antisubmarine warfare, and protection of shipping.

The Navy shall develop aircraft, weapons, tactics, technique, organization and equipment of naval combat and service elements; matters of joint concern as to these functions shall be coordinated between the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy.

(c) The United States Marine Corps, within the Department of the Navy, shall include land combat and service forces and such aviation as may be organic therein. The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign. It shall be the duty of the Marine Corps to develop, in coordination with the Army and the Air Force, those phases of amphibious operations which pertain to the tactics, technique, and equipment employed by landing forces. In addition, the Marine Corps shall provide detachments and organizations for service on armed vessels of the Navy, shall provide security detachments for the protection of naval property at naval stations and bases, and shall perform such other duties as the President may direct: Provided, That such additional duties shall not detract from or interfere with the operations for which the Marine Corps is primarily organized. The Marine Corps shall be responsible, in accordance with integrated joint mobilization plans, for the expansion of peacetime components of the Marine Corps to meet the needs of war.

Quoted Item Four: Major General John A Lejeune’s Letter, Marine Corps Order No. 47 dated 1 November 1921, which contains sentiments and historical facts dear to the hearts of all Marines.

Following is a copy of the Marine Corps Birthday Message, Marine Corps Order No. 47, Series 1921. This Order was signed by Major General John A Lejeune, USMC, on 1 November 1921:

759. The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the 10th of November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921, it will be read upon receipt.

(1) On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name Marine. In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.

(2) The record of our corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous military organizations in the world’s history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation’s foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and is the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

(3) In every battle and skirmish since the birth of our corps, Marines have acquitted themselves with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term Marine has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.

(4) This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the corps. With it we have also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our Nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as Soldiers of the Sea since the founding of the Corps.

John A. Lejeune,

Major General Commandant

[End Quoted Material]

With gratitude to Major General Lejeune’s eternal spirit which has animated our corps I will tell the fictional story of Clay Dawson and his brothers. These fictional Marines are a composite of all the Marines, men and women, who have served from the time of the Continental Marines until forever, ad infinitum. They have proudly served with bravery, compassion and the usual blazing glory of esprit de corps common to them and their kind.

Readers who do not have a special interest in the Corps will recognize in these men common, all-American heroes who are taking part in fast-moving adventures, which have been a favorite of American readers for a very long time.

During his years in high school, I knew Clay Dawson was an all American boy. He played football and hoped to earn a scholarship to play in college. As the result of being whipped by an older, larger boy, he decided to study martial arts. He used his marital arts training to protect June, the girl of his dreams. They started dating and were devoted to each other all through high school. Before graduation, Clay knew which colleges he would apply to if he could get a football scholarship; and was very disappointed that he did not get an offer from any of the larger schools.

The United States was at war in Korea when Clay graduated from high school and he then decided to join the United States Marine Corps. He was sent to boot camp at Parris Island where he met Sergeant Bobby Lane, his Drill Instructor. His best friend at boot camp was Ray Anderson, the only black recruit in the platoon. Ray was from one of the northern states. Clay and Ray were thrown into combat soon after they graduated from boot camp. Clay immediately established himself as capable and cool headed when he was required to make the right decision under stress. He had several confrontations with Robert Connell, a CIA Agent. Clay did not like the way Robert did his job, and they disagreed vigorously after every battle.

One day Clay sustained a serious injury and was soon sent home to recuperate. When June visited him in the hospital they planned to get married after she divorced her husband. Fran, who was June’s daughter with her husband Ted, was attracted immediately to Clay as if they were father and daughter. At about that same time Clay heard his old unit in Korea had been surrounded by Chinese and North Koreans. He returned to Korea to help get his friends out of the bad situation. When he got back to Korea he met his old DI, Bobby Lane.

The two of them happened to meet Robert Connell, whom Clay had had so many disagreements with in the past. Clay had to ask for help from Robert so they could form a group to look for his old unit. Clay and Bobby were then assigned to Second Lieutenant Andrew (Corky) Murray’s platoon. They moved forward on their mission immediately and during their search Murray was wounded. Clay was given a battlefield commission and took command of the platoon. After the mission was completed, Murray, Bobby and Clay were in the same outfit. Other members of their unit were Jim Kirby, the radio man; and Mitchell, their corpsman.

Clay was assigned duty via TAD to the Agency and he was directed to report to Robert. Clay was temporarily sent back to the US to attend the Agency’s academy. While he was completing the training he met Amy. Amy was a woman almost identical to June in looks and temperament. After Clay completed his training, he had a week’s leave and he and June were married. They only had one day before he returned to Korea. His time was divided between doing espionage for the Agency and serving with Murray, Bobby, and Ray. They had unusual success with a new Recon Unit. They were asked to form a permanent unit, which would become part of USMC Force Recon. They served in the new Recon Unit until the end of the Korean War. Clay was not discharged, but he agreed to work full time with the Agency on TAD, with Amy as his partner, until he was reinstated to active duty during the Viet Nam War. During the transition from Korea to service with the Agency, several events occurred which affected Clay and Amy’s future. June hired Mae Stevenson to help her and take care of the house. June and Clay had a son, named Mark, but Clay wasn’t sure later who Mark’s father really was. Ray joined the Agency. Jim Kirby joined Clay’s father as a partner in the electronics store.

Sometime later the Special Unit was called to help the Agency in an operation to go into Iran to recover hostages. Bill Vincent, Pete Mulligan, Tonto, Big Al and Fred Baines were all assigned to the Special Forces on the operation. During that mission, Fred Baines was injured and was forced to retire from the Marines. Amy was captured and the Unit had to save her.

During one of Clay’s assignments with Amy, June filed for a divorce, which was granted in his absence. Clay married Amy after that happened.

Massey, Murray, Lane and Clay retired from the Marines. Clay was never discharged and most of his time he was assigned TAD to the Agency he was allowed to retire with the men.

Robert was promoted to Director of the Agency. He made arrangements with Clay and Amy to do special assignments for the Agency from time to time. Clay had made some enemies in the Russian KGB and he knew he would hear from the Russians in the future.

Amy and Clay retired and were getting a little bored with their domestic routine when they received an unexpected call from Robert, who wanted them to start a new venture.

I will tell you now how the assignment began and what happened when they got underway. I will also introduce you to their old friends and the new friends they will meet from time to time. Parts of the story in this book were told in my book A Marine’s Life in the Shadows, the Reluctant Agent, published in 2006. This book will take you right up to the beginning of my next book about their future adventures, which I have already started writing. I receive comments from my readers with great anticipation and gratitude at:

Billy D Smith

2924 Co. Rd. 129

Wedowee, AL 36278

Ace of Spades

The ace of spades, the so-called death card is featured in many movies about the Vietnam War. The symbol is also depicted on various unit crests, special operations privately-made patches, collar insignia, and on flags and painted vignettes on military aircraft and gun trucks.

In Vietnam, US planes sprinkled enemy territory with playing cards, but prior to carpet bombing, they dropped only the ace of spades. Before long, the physiological technique took hold, and just the dropping of aces was sufficient to clear an entire area. [http://www.newtscards.com/secret_weapon_death_playing_cards.asp]

Agency (or CIA)

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.

The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Harry S. Truman. The act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the United States intelligence community; act as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to the national security; and serve as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. [See:https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/index.html]

Battlefield Commission

Normally, enlisted men or non-commissioned officers cannot attain the rank of commissioned officer through regular promotion. Starting in 1917, during World War I, the United States Army started giving battlefield commissions to soldiers to replace the Brevet Officer system (the promotion of an enlisted man to a commissioned officer without an increase in pay). The Marine Corps started giving battlefield commissions in place of the Brevet Medal, which was second only to the Medal of Honor. From World War I to the Vietnam conflict, over 31,200 soldiers, marines, and airmen have been awarded battlefield commissions.

The most significant difference between battlefield commissions and regular commissions is that with the latter, one must attend officer candidate school. Battlefield commission eliminates this step. [See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Battlefield_Commission]

Boot or Boot Camp

Marine Corps Boot Camp, also more formally known as Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island. Parris Island is approx. 8,095 acres of swamps, marsh land, and thick woods where the United States Marine Corps sends all their new recruits from East of the Mississippi. San Diego, California is the West of the Mississippi Recruit Depot.

Marine Corps Boot Camp is broken down into three phases. Phase One focuses on basic learning; physical and mental. It is a four week Phase, the longest and one of the hardest of them all. Week one is receiving, Initial Strength Test (IST) and a class on Stress.

Phase Two is weeks 4,5,6,7 and 8, in which the new recruits are further conditioned both mentally and physically. During week 4 the new recruits take part in classes on Marine Corps history

Phase Three consists of the last four weeks of the thirteen week training. It is training weeks 9, 10, 11 and 12.

Brig

Most militaries have some sort of military police unit operating at the divisional level or below to perform many of the same functions as civilian police, from traffic-control to the arrest of violent offenders and the supervision of detainees and prisoners-of-war.

The US military equivalent to the civilian jail, in the sense of holding area or place of brief incarceration for petty crimes is known colloquially as the guardhouse or stockade by the army and air forces, and the brig by naval forces.

Corpsman

The Hospital Corps was founded with the approval of President William McKinley (17 June 1898). This is referred to as the birthday of the US Navy’s Hospital Corps. From this point on all members of the hospital corps could be referred to as Corpsmen. The Hospital Corps consisted of: Hospital apprentice (Seaman), Hospital apprentice first class (Petty Officer), Hospital Steward (Chief Petty Officer), Pharmacists.

Hospital Corpsmen (HMs) are members of the United States Navy Hospital Corps. They serve as enlisted medical personnel. Corpsmen serve in a wide variety of capacities and locations, including shore establishments such as naval hospitals and clinics, aboard ships as the primary medical caregivers for sailors while underway, or with Marine Corps units as battlefield corpsmen, the Marines’ equivalent to Army medics. [See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Corpsman]

Cruise Ships

An ocean liner is the traditional form of passenger ship. At one time such liners operated on scheduled line voyages to all inhabited parts of the world. With the advent of airliners transporting passengers and specialized cargo vessels hauling freight, line voyages have almost died out. But with their decline came an increase in sea trips for pleasure, and in the latter part of the 20th century ocean liners gave way to cruise ships as the predominant form of large passenger ship.

Although some ships have characteristics of both types, the design priorities of the two forms are different: ocean liners value speed and traditional luxury while cruise ships value amenities (swimming pools, theaters, ball rooms, casinos, sports facilities, etc.) rather than speed. These priorities produce different designs. In addition, ocean liners typically were built to cross the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the United States or travel even further to South America or Asia while cruise ships typically serve shorter routes with more stops along coastlines or among various islands.

For a long time cruise ships were never as large as the old ocean liners had been, but in the 1980s this changed when Knut Kloster, the director of Norwegian Caribbean Lines, bought one of the biggest surviving liners, the SS France, and transformed her into a huge cruise ship, which he renamed the SS Norway. Her success demonstrated that there was a market for large cruise ships. Successive classes of ever-larger ships were ordered, until the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth was finally dethroned from her 56-year reign as the largest passenger ship ever built.

The practice of traveling by cruise ship as known today grew gradually out of the transatlantic crossing tradition, which, despite the best efforts of engineers and sailors into the mid-20th century, rarely took less than about four days. In the competition for passengers, ocean liners added many luxuries, most famously seen in the Titanic, but also available in other ships, such as fine dining, well-appointed staterooms, and so forth.

Ship’s Officers

Officers hold traditional seagoing positions. Smaller ships have only a few officers, who perform a huge variety of tasks, while large ships have many officers, each with a narrow function.

Captains and mates are the senior officers of the ship and hold traditional seagoing positions. On ships registered in the US, captains and mates must be licensed by the US Coast Guard, although the exact license they need varies depending on the type of ship they command. US captains and mates usually graduate from the US Coast Guard Academy, US Naval Academy, the US Merchant Marine Academy, or other maritime colleges, most of which offer 4-year programs that confer bachelor of science degrees. However, most cruise ships are registered in foreign countries, and these ships usually hire captains and mates licensed in countries other than the US.

Captains command the ship and are responsible for everything from making sure the ship is on course and running safely to following docking regulations at foreign ports to reviewing and evaluating the performance of lower-ranked officers. Chief mates manage the deck crew, supervise lower-ranking mates, spend long stretches of time navigating the ship, and act as captain when the captain is absent. Second mates maintain the navigation equipment and are responsible for helping the chief mate train the crew, navigate the ship, and keep watch. Third mates inspect, replace, repair, and maintain inventories of all deck department equipment, including safety equipment, supplies, and tools, and help navigate and keep watch. The captain has enormous legal powers and is responsible in all aspects for a ship underway. Powers include the right to use deadly force to suppress piracy and mutiny. It is a myth that the captain can conduct a marriage. But at sea, the captain enjoys absolute command. This authority holds true even if higher-ranking persons are aboard. If a higher-ranking person gives the captain an order, care is taken to specify what is desired rather than how to do it. Rank does not give the right to interfere in the captain’s running of the ship.

A Chief Mate (C/M) or Chief Officer is a licensed member and head of the deck department of a merchant ship. The chief mate is customarily a watch-stander and is in charge of the ship’s cargo and deck crew. The chief mate is responsible to the captain for the safety and security of the ship. Responsibilities include the crew’s welfare and training in areas such as safety, firefighting, search and rescue.

Pursers are the ship’s treasurers, in charge of passenger accounts, tickets, currency exchange, employee payroll, and the processing of legal documents, such as those needed by port authorities. Chief pursers need hotel administration experience and a background in finance and often begin in the cruise industry as assistant pursers. Pursers don’t need a college degree, but if they have one, they can substitute educational experience for some of the required work experience.

Chief Engineers are in charge of all mechanical and electrical operations of the vessels, maintaining engines, generators, and all auxiliary equipment. At minimum they need years of experience, although many US ships also require them to be licensed by the Coast Guard. Many American chief engineers graduate from maritime engineering college programs.

Shipboard employees are classified in three rankings: Officer, Staff and Crew. The highest-ranking officer on board is the ship’s Master. The Master has absolute command of the ship, its guests and crew. Captain is the traditional customary title given to the person in charge of a ship at sea. On most legal documents in the merchant shipping industry, the captain is correctly referred to as the ship’s Master. A nautical captain may be a civilian with a master’s license or a naval commissioned officer of any rank.

Staff consists of the following departments: casino, cruise programs, gift shop, and divers. Staff has the privilege of being allowed in specified public areas when off duty, provided they follow the shipboard rules and regulations which apply to them while in the public areas.

Crew consists of the following departments: food & beverage and housekeeping. Crew may not go in public areas while off duty, although they may enjoy free time in crew areas and in the ports of call.

Drill Instructor

1) SgtMaj/GySgt to Sgt:

(a) Conducts recruit training for newly enlisted personnel following the recruit training schedules and orders.

(b) Instructs and assists in training basic combat tasks to recruits.

(c) Trains recruits in the fundamentals of service life and the development in the recruit of discipline, physical fitness, pride, and love of the Marine Corps and country.

(d) Trains recruits in close order drill.

(e) Instructs in nomenclature, disassembly, assembly, and functioning of small arms and assists in marksmanship instruction.

(f) Instructs in general orders for sentinels, interior guard duty, personal hygiene, first aid, military bearing and neatness, and care of clothing and equipment.

(g) Lectures on Marine Corps history and tradition, customs of the service, military courtesy and U.S. Navy Regulations.

(h) Assists in conduct of parades, reviews, and bayonet drill.

(i) Maintains records and prepares reports.

Force One Unit - USMC Force Recon

US Marine Reconnaissance units are tasked with providing the commander of a larger force of Marines with information about his operational area. Their missions usually focus on specific information requirements which, due to their changing or unique nature, cannot be obtained by means other than putting a man on the ground to observe and report. Recon Marines are, by nature, capable of independent action in support of the larger unit’s mission. They also are, as an additional and entirely separate focus, tasked with a wide variety of direct action missions which provide a Marine Amphibious Ready Group with a limited special operations capability.

They are similar in characteristics to Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Air Force Combat Controllers, but complement, rather than replace the other services special operational forces. In cooperation with these special operations forces, the deployed Marine units (including Recon support) provide a theater commander with a range of options. Marine Recon retains their basic focus as a supporting component of the combined arms Marine Air/Ground Task Force, constantly forward-deployed in the security interests of the United States. [See: http://www.forcerecon.com/reconfaq.htm]

Ponta Delgado (Azores)

The city of Ponta Delgada is the largest and most populous city of the Azores. The Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean approximately 1500 km from the European coast and 3900 km from the North American coast. The resident population of the nine islands totals 237,000 people.

Due to the geographical location of the islands they are divided into three groups based on their relative proximity: the Eastern group including Santa Maria and São Miguel, the Central group including Terceira, Graciosa, São Jorge, Pico and Faial and the Western group including Flores and Corvo.

Lagoa (Portuguese for lagoon) is a municipality on the southwest-central part of São Miguel Island in the Azores. Lagoa is located east of Ponta Delgada and is linked with a road connecting Ponta Delgada, the western part of the island and Furnas, Povoacao and the eastern part of the island to the east and to the north especially areas that are away from the Atlantic Ocean. The mountains are to the east. Most of the mountains are covered with forests and are grassy in both lower and higher elevations. The rest of the land is made up of agricultural lands and some forests.

Profilers

In late 1974, the FBI began forming its Behavioral Sciences Unit (profiling unit). Profiling is an investigative technique in forensic science with many names and a history of being practiced on many levels for many years. It is extensively represented and glamorized in books and film. It is most commonly associated with law enforcement, although profiling takes place in other areas and in other contexts not limited to criminal justice.

M1 Rifle

The M1 Carbine was originally developed as a replacement for the M1911 & 1911 A1 Service Pistol. However, because of its high rate of fire, light weight, versatility and reliability it became very popular and effective as a first rate line weapon. The M1 Carbine saw action in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

General Specs — Action: Gas semi-auto/Weight 5 lbs 8 oz/Length 35.58 in/Muzzle Velocity: 1,970fps/Max. range: 2,200 yds/Max. Effective range 300 yds/Magazine: detachable 15 or 30 round.

Russian KGB

The KGB has been an integral feature of the Soviet state since it was established by Nikita S. Khrushchev (in office 1953-64) in 1954 to replace the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del—NKVD), which during its twenty-year existence had conducted the worst of the Stalinist purges. Between 1954 and 1991, the KGB acquired vast monetary and technical resources, a corps of active personnel numbering more than 500,000, and huge archival files containing political information of the highest sensitivity. The KGB often was characterized as a state within a state. The organization was a rigidly hierarchical structure whose chairman was appointed by the Politburo, the supreme executive body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Key decisions were made by the KGB Collegium, a collective leadership including the agency’s top leaders and selected republic and departmental chiefs. The various KGB directorates had responsibilities ranging from suppressing political dissent to guarding borders to conducting propaganda campaigns abroad. At the end of the Soviet period, the KGB had five chief directorates, three smaller directorates, and numerous administrative and technical support departments.

TAD

Temporary Additional Duty (TAD) as a form of temporary duty (TDY). TAD is directed travel (under orders) that involve one’s journey away from the Marine’s permanent duty station, in the performance of prescribed duties, at one or more places, and directs return to the starting point upon completion of such duties. Marines on TAD remain assigned to the permanent duty station from which they proceeded on TAD.

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (also known as the Second Indochina War, the American War in Vietnam and the Vietnam Conflict) occurred from 1959 to April 30, 1975 in Vietnam. The war successfully reunified the Vietnamese under a communist government which consisted of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) and the indigenous National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, (also known the Viet Cong or VC, or derogatively as Charlie). To a degree, the war may be viewed as a Cold War conflict between the U.S., its allies, and South Vietnam on one side, and the Soviet Union, its allies, the People’s Republic of China, and North Vietnam on the other. Others, however, viewed the conflict as a civil war between communist and non-communist Vietnamese factions.

The U.S. deployed large numbers of troops to South Vietnam between the end of the First Indochina War in 1954, and 1973. Some U.S. allies also contributed forces. U.S. military advisers first became involved in Vietnam in 1950, assisting French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisers assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. President John F. Kennedy increased America’s troop numbers from 500 to 16,000. Large numbers of combat troops were dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson beginning in 1965. Almost all U.S. military personnel departed after the Paris Peace Accords of 1973. The last American troops left the country on April 30, 1975. [See] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war

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Author Billy Smith with his brother, Charles Junior and sister, Betty on Vine Street, Mill Village, Roanoke, Alabama. He lived in Roanoke until he joined the USMC.

Characters

Anderson, Ray

Agent, Best friend of Clay Dawson, met at Parris Island

Baines, Fred and Kirby, Jim

Partners in electronics store; former Marines in Korea

Caldera, Juan

Felipe, Juan’s brother; Juanita, Juan’s mother

Cardigan, Lynwood (Lyn)

Father owns electronic parts manufacturing business

Cardigan, Doris (Dottie) Lyn’s wife

Chekhov KGB Agent

Connell, Robert Agent

Dawson, Clay

Rank: Retired General

Works as salesman in father’s hardware store

Pseudonym(s): James Johnson

Dawson, Amy Agent

Pseudonym(s): Amelia Johnson, worked with Ben, Agent in Iran

Dawson, Billy

Clay and Amy’s young son

Edmonson, Frank

Agent, suspected double-agent

Force One Group

Andrew (Corky) Murray, Pete Mulligan,

Bill Vincent, Tonto, Big Al, Col. Brown

Guides

Big Bear, Hard Rock, Pole Cat, Wolf Pup

Hardgrave, Philip

Experienced Agent with more than twelve years’ experience;

just returned from assignment in Russia

Pseudonym(s) Frank Edmonson

Hernandez, Police Captain

Lagoa in Ponta Delgada, Azores

KGB Agents

Nadja KGB Agent

Sergei, Agent killed in Egypt by Clay Dawson

Sergei, Ivan Older brother of KGB Agent Sergei

Kirby, Jim and Baines, Fred

Partners in electronics store; former Marines in Korea

Lane, Bobby

Sergeant, Drill Instructor at Parris Island

Experienced combat Marine, not trained as an Agent

Clay Dawson’s partner on CIA missions

Operates fishing camp, charter boat, hires out as fishing guide

Pseudonym(s): Robert Langley

Lane, Barbara

Agent, wife of Bobby Pseudonym(s): Betty Langley

Mitchell, Dr

Son of Corpsman Mitchell in Korea

Murray, June (Kessler)

Clay’s High School sweetheart

Husband Ted Kessler Children Fran and Mark

Murray, Andrew (Corky)

Second Lieutenant Wife: Margaret

Murray, Fran Agent Clays daughter by June his first wife, not married

Stevenson, Mae Live-in housekeeper first hired by June Dawson

Sikes, George Young agent, partnered with Frank Edmonson

Tommy

Bodyguards are Steve, Earl, and Fredrick

Photographs & Illustrations

Large log building with painted carvings in

Haines, Alaska, near old Fort Seward (following copyright page)

Author and older brother and sister at home in Roanoke, Alabama,probably around 1940

Photo A – Brown bear walking along dirt road

Photo B – Photo of author with snow-capped mountains of

Alaska in background

Photo C – Author posing in front of store which sells native art made in Alaska

Photo D – Photo of fur parka modeled by Alaskan woman at Chena Village, Alaska, demonstrating natives way of life

Photo E – A rickshaw race between ten Marines (two shown), photographed in Hong King in 1956

Photo F –photo of Billy on Marine MP Guard at Jacksonville NAS in 1955

Toy pistol carved by author in 1946

Drawing of cruise ship