"That worries me. With all they've done for us, I know that you and I will be glad to keep their secrets." She hesitated for a second, before going on... "But gosh, that will be hard enough for us to do, and we're adults." Then with a slight tremble in her voice, "We rode in a spaceship. Maybe they'll let us do it again. Anyway, we'll try to keep our mouths shut, but no matter how good their intentions, our motormouths are bound to let something slip sooner or later." She hesitated a moment,. In reality, the army’s own equipment was often at least two, and often more, generations out of date.“Hmm.” Again both men knew Sturgeon was just parroting the party line, though Carter now believed, with reasonable certainty, that Sturgeon would not be antagonistic to their requests.“Hmm,” started Carter again. “Now we’ve got that all sorted out. We need you to do something for us.”“I’m already cut to the bone. There’s no more cutbacks and savings we can make. Please don’t take away any more. The jocks knew I had been suspended for fighting so they used that as an excuse to never square up with me. After a while the hazing stopped when I was around and the nerds seemed grateful. I was able to go anywhere in the school and talk to anyone without being excluded. The most popular girls were curious but afraid to approach me. Diane followed me around like a puppy waiting to please her owner and the rumors abound. I wasn’t really ‘popular’ but everyone knew who I was. I never bullied. The authorities were not interested in what we had on the yacht as long as we had our passports and payment for visas. The way the girls were dressed or more accurately bikini clad bodies had them more than distracted. I played the role of a rich playboy to the hilt. Jeff and Rich played the role of crew effectively hiding in the background.After the authorities left the girls dresses to kill in more ways than one, they were clad in very revealing dresses but the places that they were barely.