Remembering the vow he made to himself two years earlier, he added his voice to their song. FORWARD BASE ZULU 21:23 MST DAY 749 (-1 DAY) Watford trudged across the storage room beside the medical bay and dumped another pile of ironed bedsheets onto the growing stack. She paused and looked over the other neat rows covering three of the four walls. It had taken two hours to organise it, not factoring in the five hours of ironing bed sheets before that. Task completed, she ran a hand over her face and adjusted her beret. Over the past few days, ninety percent of her work involved some form of manual labour. Along with the rest of the combat medics relegated to nurse status, she mopped floors, washed clothes, made beds, changed bed pans, and organised the endless flow of paperwork cramme

