![]() ![]() ![]() He guessed maybe five hundred, human and otherwise, scraped from every corner of the galaxy, just as he and his family had been picked up eight standard weeks before. Trig didn't know exactly how many prisoners the Purge was currently carrying. There was no shortage of nightmares aboard the Imperial Prison Barge Purge. Sometimes he would actually start to drift off, floating away in that comforting sensation of weightlessness, only to be rattled awake- heart pounding, throat tight, stomach muscles sprung and fluttering- by some shout or a cry, an inmate having a nightmare. ![]() Night after night he lay still on his bunk and stared up at the dripping durasteel ceiling of the cell in search of sleep or some acceptable substitute. Even before his father's death, Trig Longo had come to dread the long hours after lockdown, the shadows and sounds and the chronically unstable gulf of silence that drew out in between them. In short, he says he had a lot of respect for these "badasses in spirit.Dramatis Personae Aur Myss prisoner (Delphanian male) Jareth Sartoris captain of the guard, Imperial Prison Barge Purge (human male) Kale Longo teen prisoner (human male) Trig Longo teen prisoner (human male) Waste 2-1B surgical droid Zahara Cody chief medical officer, Imperial Prison Barge Purge (human female)ġ/Purge THE NIGHTS WERE THE WORST. They could shoot well, took care of their weapons and equipment, and were in great shape, and were very well-disciplined. When it came to the performance of the Spetsnaz in combat, Giaconia says they were keen on tactics and had great intuition and instinct. The Russians captured the Albanian rebels that were still able to be captured, and the UCPMB camp was taken out of action permanently. ![]() The Russians deftly traversed through the vegetation while Giaconia laid the forest bare with a Mk 19 grenade launcher. After dispatching the sentries, the joint team dismounted from their armored vehicles and moved through the forest to assault the camp. Giaconia describes his time in Kosovo with his ODA in his book, “ One Green Beret: Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and beyond: 15 Extraordinary years in the life - 1996-2011.” He describes the joint US-Russian Special Forces outfit arriving in an area called Velja Glava, where the rebel camp was supposed to be. American and Russian Special Forces troops in Kosovo alongside Swedish Jaegers, 2001. ![]()
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