The Navy and the Marines do not deal with each other, which is rare in the world, because in most countries, the Marines are subordinate to the Navy, but not in the Land of the Mountains.

Although the Marine Corps also belongs to the Admiralty, it is an independent service, and most importantly, the Marine Corps is funded by the Admiralty!

In other words, the cake in the hands of the Admiralty is not only given to the Navy, but also to the Marine Corps!

This kind of thing is a pure shame for the Navy, especially for the top of the Navy, so the Admiralty has always taken it as its responsibility to find fault with the Marine Corps budget as much as possible, otherwise why would the Army have replaced it with 1 Abrams tanks, and why would the Marine Corps still use the old 60, it's not that there is no money to make trouble!

Therefore, when the old man knew that Shepard wanted the Admiralty to approve the budget for the light tank project for the Marine Corps, he immediately jumped to his feet in a hurry.

"That's the Marines, not the Navy! As the commander of the naval fleet, how can I speak for them!".

"It's the Deputy Commander!"

"That's the Commander, too!"

"You've got a big problem for me!"

"Didn't you just say there's nothing you can't do?"

The old man angrily slapped Shepard on the back of the head.

"I've said so many things, why do you remember just that?"

"I've memorized the others, but they're almost all over!"

"You bastard!"

The old man muttered another slap, but this time Shepard dodged it.

"It's not that troublesome, but it's not that simple, and you're so sure that your light tank will succeed?"

"I'm sure!"

Shepard said with great certainty, after all, in the previous life, AAI's project was like this, it passed the army's audit, but it didn't pass the Marine Corps' audit, and Shepard didn't know what the reason was, but it was definitely not because of financial problems!

Therefore, he thought about taking care of the Admiralty, and it was not just by talking about it, but it was okay to spend some money, after all, everyone is human, and there are mortgages and car loans to repay, in addition to his wife's jewelry, children's new cars or something, even if it is the general's salary, it is also excellent to be able to help others, it is considered to be a pleasure to help others!

Old Shepard still has many friends and old friends in the army, and the Admiralty also has acquaintances, and with him, at least he can play a positive role in the approval.

"If you're so sure, then do it!"

The old man nodded, no matter how he said it, it was also a matter of his family, especially when he learned that Shepard had invested five million without blinking an eyelid, and he might continue to throw money in the future.

"Don't worry about the money, I'll go to Africa to burn and loot again, and the money will come back!"

Shepard's straightforward words almost made the old man roll his eyes again, people have done good things and spread them everywhere, just this guy has done bad things and said everywhere, are you really not afraid that Uncle Black will give you a dung fork!

After spending a few days in Naples, the old man also took Shepard to meet several promising naval officers, among whom there was a guy named Tom Kazansky who impressed Shepard, who was the carrier aircraft pilot of the aircraft carrier Forrestal, according to the old man, this guy was the best pilot he had ever seen, not one of them!

"That has a bright future, and I may be able to become the commander of the Pacific Fleet in the future!"

Looking at the familiar face of the other party, Shepard almost laughed out, the iceman came out, then it is estimated that the lone ranger is also fast, but I don't know if anyone else shoots topgun in this life, if not, then he may be able to intervene again.

"Then I'll lend you good words!"

The promising pilot brother doesn't know why Shepard is so optimistic about himself, but he doesn't stretch out his hand and don't hit the smiling person, and the other party praises him sincerely, so he must also thank him with sincerity.

In addition to mingling with a few promising officers, Shepard also followed the old man to a few internal NATO drinking parties, and met several Italian contractors who were quite close to the NATO garrison

Partnership, both in terms of logistics and logistics, Shepard also deliberately advertised his branches in Comoros, especially in terms of shipping security, which really aroused a lot of interest.

"Mr. Shepard, don't you know that our ship has been plundered by pirates in the Gulf of Aden several times recently, and those poor and crazy even dare to use their broadswords to rob our freighters in fishing boats!"

"yes, that's horrifying!"

Shepard suddenly came to his senses, and even wanted to laugh a few times, after all, there will be a market if there is demand, but after all, he has to take care of his face, he can only press the joy in his heart, and express his regret to the other party with a solemn face.

"yes, unheard of, I didn't even know there were pirates in that place!"

"I guess it's because of the Ogaden War!"

An Italian man chattered that his family has been shipping logistics routes from Naples to Southeast Asia for many years, and this route was relatively calm before, that is, some pirates will appear in Southeast Asia from time to time, but those pirates do not dare to hijack their ships, but in the past year, pirates have continued to emerge in the Gulf of Aden, although they have not brought him any losses, but also made his subordinates panic, and even want to give up the Suez Canal route.

And he was also the person who was most interested in Shepard's shipping security, and pulled Shepard to ask a lot of information about the security escort.

And Shepard is no stranger to the appearance of those pirates, after all, in a way, this is also the result of the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, because most of those pirates came from the chaotic Somalia, as for the reason, it has to start with the grievances between Ethiopia and Somalia.

Of course, the grievances between Somalia and Ethiopia alone may not necessarily cause such serious consequences, and the main driving force for this is the two leading brothers, yes, the Soviet Union and the United States, because if it were not for the two of them, Ethiopia and Somalia might not be able to go to war too much.

And in the middle of 1978, when the conflict between these two countries ended, Somalia lost everything before it lost in the war, and the most serious consequence was that the already poor Somalis began to desperately find a way to toss!

"If you're really worried about that place, consider our security services, Mr. Anthony! My men are extremely professional, they have all kinds of training, and they are more than enough to serve as cargo ship guards!"