BANJO RETURNED TO A deserted camp. Everyone had checked out for a week’s rest and recreation. Come Monday week, Night Stalker training would commence. This one-week break to recuperate was essential. Flying a six-million-dollar Black Hawk required one hundred percent physical and mental capacity. And, flying one that had been kitted up with the latest surveillance technology, machine guns, and missiles added a further three million dollars to the total price.
A half-dead pilot wouldn’t be capable of safely operating it, especially at night. More importantly, was the value of the personnel both piloting and travelling in them. Every Special Forces pilot had cost their governments at least eight million dollars in training and development by the time they reached this stage in their profess
