SEVENTY-ONE Sarah took off from the flight deck of the Bougainville in the F/A-XX along with the rest of her squadron, and they spread out over the air space they’d patrol. Their mission was to provide air support, to watch over the SEAL team from above. Sarah’s first task was to fly over the Zodiacs, make sure they’d made it to the rendezvous point, and that all the divers were off the boats and in the water. For this, each operative for this mission below wore a unique tracker. Basically, command and control would know who was where. The technology was so advanced that Sarah didn’t even have to fly low over the SEAL team, which might risk giving away their location. She had on her high-tech VR helmet, which would tell her all she needed to know about what was going on in the darkness

