WCGW Chpt 174

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==Chapter 174 - What Could Go Wrong==
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Inner End (Federated Commonwealth)
21st October, 3044
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Command Sergeant Major Chester Pullman watched the loading of the soon to be departing Dropships. It had taken a year to get all of the equipment order delivered to Inner End. He had used as many cutouts as he could to make it harder for someone to track it all back to SaRI. But there was risk involved in doing that, he had lost 3.5 million C-bills to a fraudster. He had turned over the contact info to the local MIIO but he held little hope in ever getting the money back. But all the others had delivered as promised. Not only was it packed away in the Mammoth Cargo Dropship, but everything that could be stowed in the three Seeker Dropships was also done. He also had over 3,000 tons of ammunition and spare parts heading out. He double checked the various manifests copies he held to make sure nothing got missed. 
-135 Goblin Standard 
-18 Goblin LRM 
-123 Po Heavy Tank 
-36 Karnov UR VTOL
-36 Ferret VTOL 
-36 Warrior, H-7C VTOL 
-48 Rock Hound Mining Mechs 
-48 Brunel Dump Trucks 
-40 Merlin, MLN-1A 
Misc spare parts and ammo 
150 - 1,600 sq foot single family
100 - 1,200 sq foot single family
300 - 7,000 sq foot mini apartment
30 - 10,000 sq foot warehouse 
He was also packing every Dropship with as many people as he could, which he hoped completed the military personnel requests. Then he could focus on sending the dependents forward to Thazi. He triple checked the personnel manifests to make sure he had everyone accounted for.
-Armor Crews - 268
-VTOL Crews - 28
-Marines - 71
-Infantry - 537
-Jump Infantry - 125
-Engineers - 1,126
-Sr Mech Techs - 15
-Sr Mechanics - 38
-Mech techs - 353
-Mechanics - 582
-Infantry/Astechs - 900
He had filled every bunk available and still some would have to hot bunk the trip. He was pushing the environmental systems of the Dropships and knew it. But he had to get them out there to make room for dependents and the new list of material to start gathering up. Hand delivered and it had some strange items on it.
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Sergeant Major Pullman,
Your doing an excellent job of keeping us supplied and what we need. I have some new items for you to start gathering up. Contact Vinson Pharmaceuticals on Torrence, I need everything to outfit a 150 bed 500,000 sq ft hospital. In addition, I need the equipment for two 150,000 sq ft 60 bed hospitals. I also want a modular 120 bed hospital. Just like the AFFC uses. Complete plans and construction information. I will worry about staffing them later when I figure out those needs. Now for the hard part, locate and bring in the following.
100 Cattle (cow/calf pairs)4 Bulls100 Sheep4 Rams100 Buffalo/Bison (cow/calf pairs)4 BullsEquipment to smelter metal (iron, steel, aluminum etc)Naval ship (water) construction equipment(water) Naval construction engineers (shipbuilders) (hire)
Possible purchase of former AFFC tanks to arrive. Number unknown, price unknown. No word on purchase from higher. Just a heads up.
Major General Mitchell
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Command Sergeant Major Pullman grunted. More damn tanks, what the hell is he building out there? He half understood the other stuff, but more tanks?? I am shipping him 2 Regiments worth right now he had me purchase., he thought.
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