The Kechla Citadel
Drake and Gip arrived at Kechla at just past twenty three hundred hours that night. They had parked the truck in the pre-arranged spot and walked from there. The citadel looked just as it had the previous night. Apparently, their claymores had not been discovered. Gip waited until the first gap in the guard rotation, and then he scrambled down and cut the phone line. Gip took position off the southwest corner.
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Drake chose a spot just east of the southeast corner, giving him a clear line of fire into the southern and eastern sides of the compound.
When the outer perimeter guard rounded the corner, Drake jumped from behind a rock and thrust a bayonet at an upward angle just below the guard"s right shoulder blade. This technique punctured the diaphragm, rendering
