Special Envoy to Hsinchu and Tainan
First, the wait.
Lying on the sofa, some try in vain for a morning nap, in this room with rudimentary furniture, hidden from view.
The youngest kill time on a PlayStation 5, most leaf through a book or a magazine with their fingertips, like in a dentist's waiting room.
Except that cell phones are prohibited, and the anti-g suit is mandatory.
Anxiety meets the desire to fight it out.
"It's like waiting for a phone call from your girlfriend,"
laughs Lieutenant-Colonel Wu Bong Yeng, alias "Bomber", the code name written on his olive green jacket.
And then, a call breaks the gloomy silence, synonymous with danger and deliverance.
At the end of the line, the order of the "scramble", or emergency take-off, together with the coordinates of the zone of interception of the
"bandits",
detected in the cloud-swollen sky of the Taiwan Strait.
The countdown has begun.
People's Liberation Army (PLA) supersonic fighters can…
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