"Rocks inbound." It was the voice of the company commander, Major Abdirov, alerting Fourth Platoon on the ground that the airborne elements were incoming. Because of the real danger of the Germans intercepting their radio transmissions, they'd decided to make all communications, radio and personal, in English. None of the soldiers carried anything that marked their country of origin. Chase suddenly thought of the combat rifles. They were Ares CAR-32s; the unit wouldn't be carrying actual Kalashnikova weapons for that very reason. Where had they obtained the weapons?