Figure 19—Tiger Baily’s SWIC team in LEO preparing for drop.
Lagos was a brilliant jewel blazing in the darkened landscape 160 klicks below me. I pulled into position at the formation point right after Mother accomplished my circularizing burn.
“Hey, guys,” I said. “Extinguish your nav lights, and let’s do this!”
Five Hooyahs! sounding as one filled my helmet. We were ready to go.
LEO—COMBAT DROP
As soon as I got into position at the tip of the formation, I ordered Mother to reverse our pallets in preparation for deorbiting. While Mother rotated the pallets with our gyros, I followed the process on my heads-up. I know I’ve said it before, but the display was as close to a video game as you can get—especially here in LEO.
“We drop in four minutes,” I said. “Everybody good?” I was conc
