The night was cold and clear in the Arizona desert. Several camouflaged men barely visible in the moonlight fanned out across the landscape. After hiking for more than an hour, they broke off, and disappeared into the night. Each man found a place on a hill, or behind sage brush, or in a runoff ravine and silently waited. Several night vision monoculars began to methodically survey the terrain. In virtual silence, a variety of scoped deer hunting rifles were checked and loaded as a discrete communications check was conducted. [...]

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