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been east about thirty miles, so what lies beyond that we can’t be sure. The road is fairly clear so we can make pretty good time. By the time the sun is going down we are sixty miles from home. We are in a city that looks like it has been deserted since the war. The stores here are full of canned goods, clothing, and canning supplies, and pretty much anything people need to survive. We watch for smoke before sunset and there is not a sign of life anywhere.
    We decide to push on and stop on the way back to load up the trucks with supplies, if we have any room. We get to the base around midday and the city outside the base is as deserted as the one we were at last night. The buildings here seem to be in rougher shape than where we are, but that could easily be because of the storms that come in off the ocean that don’t get inland as far as we are. It feels strange to drive onto a military base without having to stop at the guard on duty. We are not sure what we are supposed to be looking for so we decide to drive around the base and see if anything catches our eye. I see a sign that catches my eye and apparently Gary and Sara see the same building, because they call us on the radio and tell me to turn in at the armory.
    We go up to the door and it is still locked. We carry tools for situations such as this. A pry bar works nicely to break the lock although it doesn’t really feel like it has deteriorated any. There are rooms in the building so we start checking them to see what we can find. There are plenty of great military weapons and ammunition. We find rocket launchers, cases of grenades, pretty much any kind of weapon we could ever want. Well almost, I am looking for one of the fifty caliber rifles like I used to use in the SEALs. Dayna finds a door marked experimental weapons so we head that way. This is where the guns like the ones we were using are located. That makes sense because this time is way before we were in the military. I find a whole case of the fifty caliber rifles with infrared scopes on them and several dozen cases of ammunition for them. These are going out to the truck right now.
    As much as we would like to we can’t take everything that we want, at least on this trip. We discuss it and load one of the trucks with guns and ammunition to take back. We also take several cases of plastic explosives as well as hand grenades and grenade launchers. We lock back up as best we can and head for a warehouse that looks promising. We find cases of camouflage clothing, military blankets, and enough supplies to outfit several thousand soldiers. We could really use some of this stuff, but we only have so much room, so what do we take first? We are contemplating that when Dayna, who is checking out the offices, comes running back to us and says she saw a couple coming our way.
    We run for the door to see who she is talking about. When we get to the doorway, we see a very nice looking young couple, looking very confused staring at us. The young man asks us if we are supposed to be in that warehouse without permission. Sara tells them she got permission from the C.O., but he died in 1969, so there is no way she can prove it. The couple looks even more surprised and asks what we are talking about, it’s 2010. I am staring at the uniforms they are wearing. Dayna smacks me and tells me to stop staring at the young lady, even if she does look very good in that uniform. I explain that I notice that they are in the Air Force and ask them what they are doing on a Marine base. The young man has been doing all the talking up to this point, but the young lady says they are stationed here on a joint venture with the Marine Corp and the Navy. She introduces them to all of us. Their names are Jenna and James. They are married and have just returned from a camping trip.
    Sara asks them if they were flying when they came back. She answers that they were, but how does she know. Sara goes on to tell them that she bets she can tell