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Martin. Dempsey's current chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, a military veteran who served in Baghdad during the Second Iraq War, served as a major general of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division, where he was responsible for training and equipping Iraqi security forces.

After that, he became the deputy commander of the U.S. Central Command, and now as a four-star general, he has also become a representative of the U.S. military class.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Air Force Department, is the most important body of the Department of Defense, and is under the dual leadership of the President and the Secretary of Defense. Since the President and Secretary of Defense of the United States are both civilian officials, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has become the highest military commander in the United States' armed forces. The Joint Chiefs of Staff has set up a joint staff department under the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose main responsibilities are to handle the daily work of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, especially the formulation of strategic plans and the unification of strategic actions throughout the armed forces. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is only the chief military adviser to the President and the Secretary of Defense, and it is still the President who truly commands the entire military.

To be qualified, he is the third person in the U.S. military, a bit like the position of commander-in-chief of the military.

However, now the four-star general Dempsey has not smiled for a long time, especially since the destruction of the Pentagon, and his heart has always been filled with haze. The countrymen are questioning his ability and questioning the government.

Of course, this is not the main reason, the United States is going to war. Busy is still secondary. But there has always been a deep crisis of trust around him, and he has been fighting all his life. If there is a war in front of him, then he is very confident to deal with it all. Just like Eisenhower back then. Return to the top of life in the face of adversity.

Now this crisis of trust around him is what makes him feel uncomfortable.

According to opinion polls, the support of the American people for sending troops abroad is very low, and Obama was awarded the Jobel Peace Prize when he came to power and promised the people to end the war. The resumption of the war has made the American people even more dissatisfied with the government. Although the government has been making a non-stop propaganda campaign to gain popular support on the grounds of counter-terrorism. But these means. None of them were enough to get the majority of the population to support the new foreign war.

If it were just a normal situation, then this kind of crisis would not have befallen him, but two events in a row in the previous two days brought great shame to his resume.

Two Raptor warplanes were shot down, a SEAL squad was captured, and the opponent was still a big problem for the United States.

What's more, these two things Somalia has made good use of the power of the media, which has embarrassed the United States. Good things don't go out, bad things go thousands of miles, and the most unlucky thing is him, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Directly awarded by many people the title of the most incompetent of the previous incumbents.

The busyness of the past three days made him quickly ignore this unpleasantness, but when he received another report from CENTCOM, the cold sweat on his head was after he hung up the phone. Follow and seep out.

"The Carter is missing!" This is a very clear message brought to him by the Central Command, and he asked three times in a row, and confirmed it again and again. None of the results have changed.

Holding back trembling hands, after hurriedly signing several documents on the deployment of materials and the transfer of troops. With trembling hands, he took out a delicate small box from his jacket pocket and took out several blood pressure pills from it. Stuffed it into his mouth and poured a few more sips of boiling water.

After a series of rapid breaths, Dempsey calmed down his anxiety and eased his physical condition.

"Prepare the car and go to the provisional presidential palace."

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In the car, Dempsey kept thinking about how to report the matter to the defense secretary and the president. The fact that an attack nuclear submarine is missing is no small matter. If it is just a natural accident, there will be a little signal coming out, especially the emergency signal on the submarine, it is absolutely impossible to not transmit any information at all.

However, the result of the fact was that all means of communication were used, that is, the Carter could not be contacted, and all the equipment that could receive the Carter submarine was found in these three days.

Of course, what worries the American side the most is that when the Carter disappeared, it was on a mission around Somalia. The actions of the SEAL team were detected by Somalia in advance, so was the Carter also poisoned by the Somali side?

According to the US military's code of operations, while the submarine is waiting to return to the combat team, once the combat team exceeds the time limit by half an hour, the submarine must immediately leave the place and return to the port before departure to confirm the information.

According to CENTCOM's projections, after the SEAL team becomes a captive of Somalia, the submarine will also depart for its return in the early hours of the morning after the SEAL team returns to port in the early hours of the morning. However, CENTCOM waited left and right, but there was no news of the return of the Carter. Many times the very long-wave signal was emitted, and there was no response. The task failure signal that should have been implied to be reported was also not received.

All of this is telling the US military that the USS Carter is likely to have an accident, just like a captured SEAL team.

Finally, on the third day, after trying all means without results, CENTCOM immediately reported back to Dempsey on the American mainland. At the same time, the results of the analysis and all possibilities are submitted.

In the end, this trouble fell on Dempsey. Dempsey, who was already anxious, is really in trouble now.

After arriving at the well-guarded provisional presidential palace, Dempsey did not have a complete reporting skill in his mind, but the matter was already approaching, and he could not hesitate any longer, so he could only report to the president head-on.

Because of his position, Obama did not let him wait long, and immediately met with him as soon as he learned that he was asking to see him.

After walking into the president's office and closing the door, Dempsey said directly: "Mr. President, the submarine USS Carter, which went to Somali waters to carry out the transport of SEALs, has lost contact with CENTCOM, and it has been more than three days. ”

"It's only been three days, isn't that weird?" Obama hasn't reacted yet, but just replied with common sense.

It is no wonder that it is an extremely normal thing for a nuclear submarine to sometimes not contact the command for ten days and half a month. Especially this kind of sneaking into the enemy's coastal waters, if you don't contact for two months, it's normal. Therefore, when Obama heard his report, he was only accustomed to asking rhetorical questions.

"No, this time is different, neither our very long-wave communications nor signal receivers have any news of the Carter. This is a very abnormal thing, Mr. President, and don't forget what happened to the SEALs......" Dempsey did not say any more, believing that the words were enough for Obama to react.

As a result, Dempsey was not disappointed, Obama's face tightened, he stood up directly, paced back and forth in the office, and after a long time he said: "Is this thing certain?" ”

"I'm very sorry, Mr. President, although we don't know what happened to the Carter, but the conclusion of the accident can be made. Otherwise, CENTCOM will not come back to us after confirming it again and again. Dempsey replied with a look of regret.

"Is it possible that there is a malfunction or that there is still lurking in Somali waters, so the submarine cannot be contacted? ...... "Obama thought of many possibilities, and he could not accept that such a high-value combat ship would be lost in the form of a disappearance.

"I am very sorry, Mr. President, that the possibility of an accident in this matter is almost non-existent. I specifically inquired about the fact that the USS Carter was on a fiber-optic communication mission with underwater ships in the Arabian Sea before it was on a mission to escort the SEALs, perhaps a lot of information. This information should have been sent to CENTCOM for analysis. The mission to deliver the SEAL team was too urgent, and the submarine had returned with the carrier, so there was no time to submit this information......"

Dempsey said this, glanced at Obama, and after seeing no signs of anger, continued: "Originally, the Central Command also thought that this information was not in a hurry, after all, it would take several months to fully screen and select. But before departure, the order clearly told the Carter that it must return on time, carry out the refurbishment of the hull, and the crew should take a week's off to make the most adjustments before the battle.

The captain of the USS Carter is a veteran Navy captain who has captained many submarines and served as the deputy captain of the Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, and his loyalty to the country is unquestionable. And all of this points to an undesirable outcome, an accident on the Carter. ”

"Then tell me whether this matter is a mechanical failure or do you think it is?" Obama's face was already very ugly, and he listened to Dempsey's analysis, but it was his belief in these analyses that made his face extremely ugly.

"I'm sorry Mr. President, but this happens to be the biggest suspicion in this incident, because whether it's a mechanical failure or someone else's doing, there's no reason for the Carter to be so silent." Dempsey didn't know how to answer Obama's question, because no one could say what had happened to the Carter.

"Don't tell me, was 'The Hunt for Red October' really going to be staged? And the protagonist is our submarine! Obama said.

"This can be ruled out, it will not happen now, and it will not happen in the future." Dempsey, of course, knows what Obama is talking about, and if this kind of thing does happen, it will be an extremely heavy blow to the prestige of the United States.

"Humph!" Obama snorted coldly, threw a document on the table in front of Dempsey, and said, "What's impossible, look at this!" The final findings of the CIA and FBI investigations into the terrorist attacks are sensational! (To be continued......)