Chapter 6Tyler looked around the base, taking in the subway and the movie theater. Rough gig this being deployed stuff, she thought wryly to herself knowing all the while that it could be every bit as dangerous as it was homey. They were there to help the Air Force clear out the base known as Joint Base Balad or Mortaritaville as many airmen and other soldiers called it, due to the high level of mortars that had been lobbed at the base. The base had been the logistical hub for the Air Force in Iraq for many years, and it housed the Air Force Theater hospital, which had a 98 percent survival rate for the soldiers who’d been sent there when injured. However, the Air Force was pulling out, and naturally that was causing more chaos with terrorists, not less. It was Teri and her unit’s job to s
