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After walking across the expanse of ground between the headquarters building and the living quarters, he found his best friend waiting with two chocolate candy bars at the door of their hut. As an officer, Harry was more laid back than Jackson, but extremely disciplined in his own right even as the product of a college education and officers candidate school as well as extremely well trained as a paratrooper, sniper, explosives expert. Both men met during Special Forces selection years ago and due to their friendship, doubles as Jackson’s sounding board and inner voice on difficult missions. As a rule he was sure Jackson’s refusal to gain weight was a result of him paying penitence for not leading all of the prisoner out during the escape.

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