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The night-vision scopes were useless. The Catatumbo lightning flashed and flared. Each unpredictable flash of light maxed out the sensors, and the scopes automatically shut down to protect users’ eyes. The recycle recovery time was too long and would leave them more blind than the lightning’s aftermath.
Worse, visible heat signatures through the goggles could be either lightning reflected off a wet tree or an enemy poised to fire.
Movie theater. They’d practiced doing a terrorist takedown in a large theater while a movie was running. Light, dark, light, constantly changing visibility with the images on the screen. At the time she’d thought the dramatically flickering footage the trainers had assembled was unfair—or at least excessively cruel.
Now Carla let that training roll over he
