"The day before yesterday, I went to Washington to attend an industry conference, and after the dinner, I went to meet Wolf at VOX headquarters and congratulated him on his overnight success and eating one of his burgers, which can be regarded as a trivial contribution to helping him lose weight." Earl crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame of Tommy's office, and said to Tommy, who was sitting on the couch and was intimidating Martin with a murderous face.

Hearing Earle's words, Tommy didn't lift his head and continued to concentrate on the mini-game console in hand, while Martin, his bodyguard, mouth-dresser, hairstylist and impostor, was holding the other one, and the two were obviously engaged in a fierce game battle.

"Martin, I order you as the boss, you have to lose to me!" Tommy was engrossed in the buttons, staring at the rough pixels of the football and the players on the screen, and said unhappily, "If you don't want to be blown up by Mr. Page!" ”

If Tommy had moved out of Page's name in the past, Martin would have been obedient a long time ago, but today, Martin didn't care about Tommy's words at all, his expression was focused, and he skillfully operated his own players, and scored another goal, successfully turning the score into 5:0.

After the end of the game, Martin let go of the handle and said to Tommy with the expression of the rest of his life: "If I lose one ball, I will pay you twenty-five dollars, and if I win one ball, I will get fifty dollars, so I would rather take two hundred and fifty dollars and be electrocuted by Mr. Page, that is a lot of money, boss." ”

"It's all because your words interrupted my tactical train of thought, Earl, I guarantee that you will be deducted two thousand five hundred yuan from your salary this year." Tommy threw away the game console and said seriously to the innocent-faced Earl:

"Also, what did you just say, go see Wolf, and then what? He greeted you harshly? ”

Earl shook his head: "I deliberately said that you were going to transfer him out of VOX, thinking that he might pick up the phone and scold you in front of me, and guess what he said to me?" One burger, he says, is enough to fill his stomach...... Wait a minute, shouldn't it be two hundred and fifty dollars? ”

"You're a lawyer, don't you understand that you ruined a game that would have been a comeback with six beautiful goals, shocked the world, and finally killed Martin, and I don't need a fucking mental compensation?" As Tommy spoke, he took his wallet out of his suit pocket, conceded defeat and obediently handed the bill to Martin.

Martin took the bill and kissed it, smiling, "I love you, Franklin!" Don't bother you to blackmail the lawyer, boss, I'll go outside and wait for Mr. Page myself, if you want to play another game next time you're bored, you're always welcome. ”

", Martin, and by the way, ask Sophia how long it will be before Mr. Page gets Dorothy here, and when will we be able to go." Tommy slumped back on the couch and said lazily.

When Martin walked away with a smug step, Tommy said to Earl, "Wolf is a good man, so he never turns me down, and he's also an undoubted smart guy who knows what he's good at." ”

"Where are you going? I'm not here to pass the time, but I'm here to inform you that the California Association for the Advancement of People of Color wants to invite you, a white man who helped a lot of black single mothers last year with her homemade program, to the awards ceremony next week, and I guess they'll award you a silver palm brooch for your help to people of color. Earl asked suspiciously, hearing Tommy about to leave, and then told him what he was really here for.

"Didn't you and your rich wife also receive some spiritual award from that association? Please, you can do it for me, Earl, I am a white man out there, why don't you make them more relatable, and you need that more visibility than I do, don't you? Tommy looked up, smiled at Earle, and said:

"Sophia, Paige, Martin, Dorothy and I are going to New York for Fleet Week in New York in a few days from my brother's fleet, and my father and sister are going too, and we haven't seen each other for a long time, and we won't be back in a week or two."

Fleet Week is a traditional activity of the U.S. Navy, those U.S. warships deployed overseas return home for maintenance or replenishment and other reasons, and stop at large coastal cities in the continental United States, generally it can be called local fleet week, about a week, the crew can get off the ship, rest in the local city, visit, enjoy the long-lost American food, local Americans can also be in the warship within the specified time, by a special officer as a guide on behalf of the guide, board the warship to visit.

Generally, on the first or last day, there will be a military performance on the warship, such as aerobatics of carrier-based aircraft or the firing of salutes by warships.

The main thing is that if the family of the crew happens to be near that city, they can rush over to reunite with their loved ones who have been reunited after a long absence.

After graduating from the Naval Academy, Tony went to the U.S. Third Fleet headquarters on Ford Island, Hawaii, where he was eventually assigned to board the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier of the Third Fleet's Eleventh Carrier Strike Group after six months of basic training, and now serves as a second lieutenant officer at the carrier-based aircraft dispatch center on the Nimitz.

In fact, according to the normal speed, the Nimitz aircraft carrier did not return to the shipyard of its home country so quickly for maintenance, it was not too long from the last overhaul, before the aircraft carrier was berthed in South Korea for a period of time, mainly because South Korea was worried that North Korea would damage the Seoul Olympics held by its own family, so it asked the United States to escort the Olympic Games, so the United States sent the Nimitz to South Korea.

After the end of South Korea's mission, the Nimitz went to the vicinity of the Mediterranean Sea to provide shelter for Kuwaiti oil tankers, and as a result, just after providing protection for more than two months, the USS Kennedy rushed over to replace it and returned home.

Of course, Tommy knew what happened on the Nimitz, not only because his brother was on board, but also because VOX reporters stayed there for many years in the name of helping Navy officers shoot documentaries, but the major accident could not be revealed by VOX, and had to be announced by the Pentagon's Navy Department itself, if Tommy still wanted to maintain friendship with his SSD brothers in the Navy.

In that accident, when the Nimitz was escorting a Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Mediterranean, the ship's weapons maintenance department made a mistake when overhauling the ship's aircraft guns and opened fire directly with live ammunition.

In the words of his brother Tony, it doesn't matter if he misoperates and fires during maintenance, and he also made the mistake of forgetting to take off the gear and pressing the accelerator directly when repairing the car, but even if he forgets to remove the gear, he will remember to pay attention to whether there is someone in front of the car.

However, Tony's comrades-in-arms on the aircraft carrier obviously did not have his sense of vigilance, the cannon was not fired at the sky or the sea, and an A-6 Intruder carrier-based aircraft parked on his own aircraft carrier was used as a target aircraft to test firepower by the cannon, and the powerful firepower directly blew up the A-6, which cost as much as 55 million, causing a fire, and two soldiers who happened to be overhauling near the plane were sent to heaven by the cannon on the spot......

To make matters worse, the fire caused by the explosion incidentally burned six carrier-based aircraft parked next to it.

That's why Tommy's VOX didn't come out as news, and why the USS Kennedy was going to replace the Nimitz and return home for repairs.

A news network founded by SSD brothers, exposing a naval scandal with a large number of SSD brothers? Unless Tommy wants to make a complete break with the SSD for this news and lose his connections in the Navy.

At the same time, he personally experienced the whole accident from beginning to end, which also made Tommy's brother Tony completely dispel the remaining inferiority complex in his heart, before he always thought that he did not finish high school was not worthy of being a second lieutenant at all, but now, he felt that if he was a fool, most of the people on the Nimitz could not even be fools, at least any high school student in Warwick City could understand that when playing with a loaded firearm, do not point the muzzle of the gun at anyone, so as not to misfire.

No wonder Tony was shocked, Tommy was also shocked when he knew, if it wasn't for the fact that Dennis and Pam were not on the ship, Tommy almost thought that these two sworn friends were hot-headed, and saw that the Soviet Union was about to collapse, and was ready to blow up a plane to help celebrate.

It is said that when all the members of the USS Kennedy were commended by the Admiralty for shooting down the Libyan warplane, the first sentence of the captain's internal speech was not to thank God, but to sincerely thank the Nimitz, who would rather be punished himself and give the commendation to his comrades.

The only good thing is that Tony gets a week off in New York.

"I also want to find time to talk to you seriously about the issue of BT TV network partner TV stations, we now have 167 partner TV stations, even if we raise the standard of cooperation, but there are still TV stations asking to cooperate with us, and even many of them are Canadian TV stations, the problem is, BT TV network advertising revenue has not increased significantly, you know what I mean? There is a part of the TV station that takes us for fools and takes the money that should belong to BT. Earl said to Tommy.

Tommy still shook his head: "Earl, whether it's the standard of cooperation or the way of cooperation, you and Sean and Rick have decided that I am not as experienced as you in this area, as for you think that someone treats us as fools, although to find out, if it is true, send them to court, but I still say that I will not use the money to buy the TV station and engage in the flagship TV station." ”

At this time, Sophia walked to the door, tapped her fingers lightly on the door, smiled at Earl, and then looked at Tommy: "Tommy, it's time to go." ”

After saying that, Sophia walked away quickly, Tommy got up from the couch, walked outside, and when he passed by Earle, patted the other person's chest, smiled and said: "Earle, I know you always think that I am using black people to grab the benefits I want, but, I am just a little greedy, but definitely not a bad person, so, please, don't be so eager to take it away from me, I can assure you, friend, BT TV network, I will definitely sell to real black people, God witness." ”

Until Tommy and the others had disappeared at the end of the hallway, Earl still stood in place with a serious expression, because he hadn't figured out why Tommy didn't turn against him, but gave him a very serious promise.

Let's update another chapter during the day, I can't write anymore, and the child has a fever again~ headache

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