Chapter 972: Observation
The lawn with the baseball field is marked, the trees are shady, and the old American artillery and helicopter modified monuments can be seen everywhere on the lawn, and the road traffic signs are used in the US military standard everywhere you look, and the buildings hidden in the greenery are also American-style barracks.
Buck, who also had a digital camera hanging around his neck, posed as a tourist, and used Maxim as a reference to take pictures along the way, and this thing also stupidly posed with scissor hands.
On the other side, Barayev and Alev went to the shooting range in high spirits.
A four-star hotel is at the front of this internal base, which was supposed to be used to receive American family members or non-military personnel, and in front of it, as always, has a huge parking lot in American style, but now it is empty, at most a tenth of it, but you can imagine the original bustling and lively.
Eastern Europe is all within the scope of the US military that wants to get involved in the establishment of air bases, and Buck and they have also undertaken the peripheral task of surveying whether local airfields can be converted into military airfields for NATO...... The perimeter has been removed from the perimeter ......"
The two people, who had been assessing the scene, finally walked through the parking lot and walked into the hotel, and then the atmosphere suddenly changed!
U.S. soldiers are everywhere in the hotel lobby!
Maybe these U.S. troops are picking up and leaving by vehicles, so they can't see anything outside, but sitting at the coffee and café next to the hotel lobby, U.S. soldiers wearing camouflage combat uniforms are haunting all corners of the hotel, eating buffets, sitting next to the reception desk in the lobby to check in and leave, carrying huge soldier bags and 3DAY backpacks, both men and women.
Buck received military medical training in NATO, and Maxim was the liaison work, familiar with the U.S. military insignia, holding a lemon juice glass and whispering: "Army soldiers of the 2nd Engineer Brigade...... The vast majority of the others are Air Force ......" In other words, most of the armbands and badges of the US military use mascot badges and the like to distinguish hundreds or thousands of branches among the hundreds of units in the whole army.
Buck nodded slowly, it seems that it is only a matter of time before the US military returns to the Philippines, the engineering brigade comes to survey the barracks and consider the future repair and reconstruction process, and the air force is to maintain equipment and coordinate the US military transport planes that have not stopped to transport supplies and fighter jets, and the air base has been handed over to the Philippine government, but in fact, the US military has never left here, but the size and number of people have changed.
He felt this in the Philippines and Ukraine, not all countries like China and South Korea always remember the history of being invaded and ruled by others, and the Filipino people are even quite proud of the colonization of Spain and the United States.
So Buck drank coffee, smiled and looked at the parking lot outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window next to him, and observed the cameras and surveillance equipment in the hotel lobby by the way.
Finally, satisfied, he got up and walked around with Maxim to the shooting range.
The open-air shooting range is mostly an open-air shooting range, a long empty frame house, with a long row of concrete steps inside to sit on the spectators, and the low wall railing in front of the pigsty also has a door every few meters, but there is no door leaf, which is convenient for shooters to shoot on the table and on the ground.
After handing in their passports as collateral and paying a $1,000 deposit, Buck and Maxim each received a long and short gun on the gun rack, and an instructor accompanied them in.
You can see a lot of M1 rifles on the gun rack, but the largest number is the M series of US military rifles, there are many new styles and extremely shiny old products, after all, in addition to tourists who come to play, they are enthusiasts, and the current gun fever is far more than the old rifles.
Buck is an old-fashioned combination, a 1911 pistol and an M1 rifle, deliberately asked for ten boxes of magazines on the ammunition table, and the waiter pulled out a lot of them from the shelves without saying a word, but Buck picked it up and glanced at it, and there was a thin layer of ash on the brown paper box, which was rarely used.
The M4 rifle and Glock17 pistol that Maxi wants are the hottest, all the ammo is brand new!
Buck made a hairy appearance and hit two magazines, and the bullets were also flying wildly, and he was really not interested in shooting down, maybe some enthusiasts were very excited about shooting, they really played until they wanted to vomit, and ended hastily, and came out to visit other shooting ranges, and sure enough, they found that Barayev and the two were also holding guns to see more and fight less.
The ammunition for the entire range is limited to these types, 1911 and M1, two of the largest firearms thrown by the U.S. military in the Philippines after World War II. 45 caliber pistol cartridges and. 30 rifle cartridges, then the 103 rifle cartridges of the M series rifle and the 9mm pistol cartridges of the current mainstream pistols, the others are a few, Buck also saw a large number of Filipino locals playing at the shooting range basically using M1 rifles to shoot, casually asked the instructor, saying that it was the training of mountain hunters and militiamen, M1 rifles and 1911 were still distributed to this level in large quantities, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands.
Buck was more sure of himself.
With the smell of gunsmoke, he and Maxim went to the hotel to open a room, sat on the highest eighth-floor windowsill and continued to take turns looking at the parking lot with small binoculars.
This behavior continued until it was getting dark, when Buck jumped up and told Maxim to continue, taking the elevator downstairs to the parking lot to smoke.
That's right, four GM GL8-looking commercial vehicles entered the parking lot, stayed for a while and dispersed, and entered the various shooting ranges.
Buck slowly paced through the parking lot, and the delay lasted about half an hour, and the four vans regrouped together and slowly drove out in front of Buck's eyes along the entrance and exit of the base, and Buck called the hyenas outside and Nu to drive along.
Maxim in the heights may not see the clues.
And in the parking lot Buck is very clear, when the business car comes, the biggest difference is that the shock absorption is pressed very low when walking, so low that the original ordinary business car is about to become close to the ground like a sports car!
This shows that the car is extremely heavy!
According to Buck's experience, in fact, if such a commercial vehicle is filled with guns, it will not be pressed like this, because the guns are hollow, and now many use alloy materials, plastic handles, etc., and the guns themselves are not heavy, but the heavy ones are ammunition!
Because the ammunition is a real metal bullet plus a brass steel shell, that weight!
Only a vehicle full of ammunition will be crushed like this, which is how Buck got when he happened to see a commercial vehicle being crushed into and out of the intersection when he passed by here on his last trip!
The glimpse left a deep impression on him.
And Amman is very familiar with the rules of the shooting range in Southeast Asia, he used to be a small shop with a few broken guns on Phuket, and later joined the shooting range association, for a slightly formal shooting range, the law stipulates that the guns and ammunition must be separated at night, and the guns can be locked in a special gun cabinet that has been inspected by the government at the shooting range, and the ammunition must be placed away from the shooting range, otherwise it is like such a large shooting range of two or three hundred guns if there is a riot or something like that, isn't it very scary?
So the range prefers to transport ammunition every day to the more valuable guns.