Pop stealthily slipped from the muck and slid to the road. Egan signaled Cherry to stay put. He followed Pop onto the road. Without an utterance they commenced to deploy the ambush. Egan set one claymore two feet off the road, below brush, ten feet up the road. He angled the mine slightly upward, up and across the road. Pop unscrewed the plastic fastener used to secure a blasting cap, inserted an end of det cord and screwed the fastener back in place. Then he unrolled the cord and brought it across the road to where Egan was aiming a second claymore. Pop measured the cord, cut it and returned to the road. Carefully he camouflaged the cord, burying it in the road mud, being extra careful to reconstruct the cartwheel grooves after burying the cord. Egan waited until Pop was finished. The two
