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government guy, Gerald Smith with regards to his plan.  John left his number with the help line and asked that Gerald call him back as soon as he could. 
                  John got out of his uniform and changed clothes then grabbed a beer.  His cell phone rang; it was the tune, Highway to Hell.  He answered, “Yeah?”
                  “I’m looking for a Major Clayton.” The caller said.
                  “Speaking, who is this?”
                  “I’m Gerald Smith Director of IT for SFOD-D.”
                  “Yeah, hey! great! Thanks for calling me back so quick.”
                  “We have specific directives that we are to return op’s guys calls ASAP. We so seldom get any I thought this had to be a joke.”
                  “Nope, no joke I’m for real.” John went on to tell him what was going on and what he wanted to do.  Gerald was surprised to say the least; he thought all of the Delta guys were nothing but knuckle draggers.  John gave him some of his High School and College background and Gerald could tell he knew what he was talking about.
                  Gerald told John that he had a couple of guys that could get him a server and everything else he needed and asked when he needed it by.  Of course John answered tonight if possible.  Gerald thought about it, sure why not he thought not every day a team guy like this came along, let’s see what he can do.  He told John that one of the system engineers would be giving him a call soon with everything he needed.  He then added that he would love to see the final results when he had it done.  John assured him that would be no problem at all; in fact he would love to show it off.
                  Gerald and John talked some more then moved on and hung up.  John grabbed his laptop and sat down at the kitchen table and started knocking out some code, he had a very good idea what he wanted to do.
                  An hour later a systems engineer from the IT Department called and gave him everything that he needed and also gave him is contact number.  It seemed the entire IT Department was aware that some Delta Operator was going to develop some website; the thought went out that this should be worth a few laughs.
                  John worked all night on the project, hammering out code and scanning all of the documents from the binders.  He didn’t sleep a wink and ended up going into operations at 0500; he got to his desk and went right back to work.  He ran into a couple of database issues later on in the morning and called the contact number.  The systems engineer wasn’t able to help with it but they had a Database developer who could answer some questions. 
                  Twenty minutes later the Database guy was on the phone listening to the problem and his attempt to solve it.  The Database developer was truly impressed, so he said, he went on to say a lot of the developers he worked with didn’t have insight and technical know how he did.  John told him he wasn’t a developer and didn’t work for IT but Gerald was giving him a hand.  When the call ended John had the final piece he was looking for and spent the rest of the day working on it.
                  Major MacCoy came by a couple of times to see how he was doing during the day.   Even brought him some lunch and tried to engage in some small talk but he could see John was totally engrossed in what he was doing.  By 1700 he packed it all up and headed home, once there he washed up, ate some chow and grabbed some rack time – just for a couple of hours.  Then he was back up and at it the rest of the night.
                  Like the day before he went into work at 0500 and started right back into it, but by noon he believed he was done.  He couldn’t remember the last time he really enjoyed doing