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The President of the United States,
the Premier of the Soviet Union, and
the Captain of a ballistic missile submarine.
The Blue Crew of the SSBN Michigan won the annual Fleet Achievement Award. As a reward, the Navy paid for their family members to join them in Scotland. The homeward flight was hijacked enroute and diverted to Beida, Libya.
A Marine Expeditionary Unit - Special Operations Capable - and elements of Detachment Delta is sitting offshore awaiting permission to enter Libya in order to liberate the aircraft and occupants. Meanwhile, negotiations continue and hostages are being shot every six hours.
After the third hostage was murdered, an uncoded message was transmitted from the Michigan and recorded by several international agencies.
"To the President of the United States
Believing the Soviet demand that negotiations at Beida be conducted only by a United Nations team to be an inhuman and criminal political manoeuvre precluding swift and safe release of our families, we, the majority of the officers and crew of the USS Michigan do hereby serve warning upon the Soviet Union. Unless our families are released unharmed by 2400GMT 7 August, we will launch a Trident missile.
Mike Dawson, Commanding"
This scenario was inspired by the F. Robert Baker novel, "Warhead", Bantam Books, 1981.
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