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Chapter 10

Washington, DC

Star Gazer came fully awake eight hours later and was put through medical mobility tests, which he passed. Star Gazer was taken out of critical condition and put in medical watch alert. The hybrid medical team was placed on watch, and they stayed with Star Gazer another three days in the medical suite, and he turned out to be fine. Star Gazer was cleared for full active duty three days later and was sent to the MI-45 congressional council debriefs. Star Gazer was called into the congressional building in Washington, DC, to declare his whereabouts for the past nine years and six months. Star Gazer sat at the table and answered the congressional council’s questions for three days—starting at nine in the morning with a lunch break from noon to one and sessional debrief from one to four in the afternoon.

After three days, the congressional council retired for review. The council took two weeks to reconvene and recall Star Gazer for disposition. During the two weeks’ wait for disposition from the MI-45 council, they held Star Gazer at the Marine hybrid containment building at the Ghost Recon Marine base in Washington, DC. After hearing what Star Gazer had been through for nine and a half years, they decided to give him his own Marine One Ghost Recon Unit 5 command in San Diego, California—basically, a trade offer that Star Gazer cleans up the San Diego naval basin to receive full power command of his own unit of his choice.

Star Gazer accepted, and he was fully funded by the MI-45 congressional council. They made Star Gazer a four-star Marine One colonel of Ghost Recon Marine One Unit 5, which was, in fact, San Diego’s basin command. The congressional council mandated Star Gazer to take over the seventh floor of San Diego’s federal building, which was the Defense Intelligence Agency command headquarters. The president acknowledged this event and fully approved the congressional action for funding Star Gazer’s unit. Star Gazer walked out of the congressional council and got what he wanted, and so did congressional council MI-45. It was a fair deal.