Kickoff shook his head and made a throat-cutting gesture. Kickoff didn’t care to wait for the chance of bagging both the trucks. That was not necessary to Kickoff’s technical purposes. His assignment, it seemed, was merely to field-test the equipment and the support system. Kickoff gently plugged a small video wire and jack into the side of the rifle’s scope. He blew dust from a flat plastic wafer and inserted a fresh, spotless disk from a jewellike case. Then he urged the Colonel on.