The Right Guard (The Allegiance Series, Book 1)

The installation they called Number Seventeen was non-operational for three years. A former secret testing ground for experimental aircraft, it closed when the Air Force decided to drop the project. In recent years the base fell into a caretaker status. A panel studied possible future uses, but delayed their findings for six months. Amid reams of paper that flowed from the Pentagon it was lost. Suddenly the military higher-ups requested more urgent matters to tend to like congressional decisions on the Defense Department budget. “They just put it in moth balls,” as one General expressed it later. Number Seventeen’s facilities were big enough to hold no more than a few battalions and all their equipment. These facilities, the curved-top, metal Quonset huts and cement block and wooden barracks dotted the American landscape from one coast to the other. Of no more use to the military, the Pentagon ignored them until someone could think of something better to do with them. Someone had.