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Debbie: So, In honor of our new release, Explosive Conditions, LJ and I have decided to interview our two main characters, Kaci Phillips and Staff Sergeant Zeke “Diz” Matthews.

LJ:  I really enjoyed writing Explosive Conditions. So far, I think it was the most fun.

Debbie: Totally agree.

LJ: Sooo, we’re supposed to grill these two? I know we put them through the wringer—both of them. LOL So I guess a little more won’t hurt…too awful much.

Debbie: Okay, Let’s get started. Why do they call you Diz?

Zeke: It comes from my job. I’m an Explosive Ordnance technician. Lets just say the after affects of one of my close calls left me a bit light headed.

Kaci: Ummm, you didn’t tell me about that.

Zeke: Nothing to worry about, honey. I’ve still got ten working fingers and toes.

Kaci: (blushes) That’s not all that’s working on ya.

LJ: Kaci, why chop off all that gorgeous brunette hair?

Kaci: I was ready for a change. I needed to put the horror of the past behind me and start over. (glances over at Zeke) Cutting my hair short was just the start.

LJ: I’m sure it was.

Debbie: Zeke, I’m told you drive a mustang? Be honest, how fast have you had it?

Zeke: (laughs) Why, you tryin’ to get my clearance revoked?

Debbie: Of course not.

LJ: What prompted you two to contact Madame Eve?

Kaci: Like I had a choice.

Zeke: Damn straight. But since it all turned out all right, I guess I won’t have to kick Bobcat’s a—

Kaci: Zeke, sweetie. Keep it PG, please.

Debbie: Soooo, how about that first meeting on the 1Night Sail?? Care to explain?

Kaci: uhhhh….

Zeke: Really? Isn’t it enough that you two put it out there for the whole world to read, you want us to go over it again?

LJ: Sure.

Kaci: uhhhh….

Zeke: You two went into plenty of detail. Just read the story. (mumbles) Course the real thing was even hotter….

LJ: Kaci, what was going through your mind when you were kidnapped?

Kaci: I couldn’t believe it. Here I’d just found the most perfect man—

Zeke: Aw, thank you, darlin’

Kaci: (grins) And then when those as—

Zeke: PG, honey. PG.

Kaci: Right. Um, those animals grabbed me, and then when…well, I won’t say what happened next. Let’s just leave it that I thought that was it, that I’d lost him forever.

LJ: I bet you did!

Debbie: Zeke, why the need to call in local law enforcement. Couldn’t you and the other guys just go in and taken care of business on your own instead of wasting time with the locals?

Zeke: Apparently, you authors are sticklers for authenticity. I would have preferred the team just bust in and save the day, but I’m told that wouldn’t have been realistic. I might add because you two needed to have us wait, Kaci was needlessly hurt. We WILL be discussing that in the near future.

Kaci: (pats Zeke’s arm) I’m fine. The girls were just doing their jobs.

Zeke: It’s not okay.

Kaci: Well, don’t rile them. Or they’ll take it out on us.

Zeke: Sweetie, our story is finished. There’s nothing else they can do to us.

LJ: Really? You think so?

Zeke: Sure. It’s all on the next PJ, right? (grins) And I know who that’s gotta be.

Kaci: But you’ll still be there with the rest of your team. More bullets. More bad guys. Will it ever end?

Zeke: Not till I find the person who murdered your family and bring them to justice, it’s not. You’re my life, Kaci.

Debbie: Do I hear wedding bells in the future?

Kaci: (Looks at Zeke)

Zeke: Jesus, you two! Is nothing sacred? If I’m going to propose, it will be a special event between the two of us. (Gestures between himself and Kaci) Capisce?

Debbie: Testy, testy.

LJ: Any secrets you can give away on the next story in the series?

Zeke: Hmmm, I’m not big on giving away secrets.

Kaci: It’s Kyle’s turn to experience Madame Eve. Oh, and the title is Do No Harm.

Zeke: (gives Kaci’s waist a squeeze) Uh, we’re gonna have to talk about this secret stuff.

Kaci: (giggles) It’s not like it’s one of your military secrets, sheesh.

Zeke: I can tell you this. Junior Lieutenant Kyle “Raven” Alvarez is up for the challenge. The man is opinionated, for sure. And finding him a woman? Well, that’s on you two, isn’t it?

LJ: I think we can manage.

Debbie: On it as we speak. You’ll love her, she’ll fit right in.

 Zeke: Good, are we done here, then?

Debbie: I guess, are we keeping you?

Zeke: Damn right. Later.

Debbie: Well, okay then. That’s all folks. LJ and I hope you enjoy ExplosiveConditions! 

Blurb: 

   Staff Sergeant Zeke “Diz” Matthews never forgot the woman he rescued from a burning boat. She invades his dreams at night and thoughts of her distract his days. Fed up with his cranky change in demeanor, his teammates urge him to take advantage of Madame Eve's 1Night Stand dating service.

   Kaci Phillips needs to start a new life. But she struggles to move on from the horrific event that claimed her whole family. When she reconnects with the sexy Air Force pararescueman who saved her six months earlier, the weight she's been carrying at last lifts.

   What begins as a hot, frenzied night of passion in each other’s arms ends with gunfire, blood, and the threat of death. With the odds stacked against them, can Zeke and Kaci defuse such explosive conditions?

March on over! Bunny interviews Pararescueman Bobby Martin

By Bunny

*Pops into chair wearing pink ACUs and waves to the audience.*

Good Morning, 1NightStanders. Today, I’m talking to Sergeant Bobby Martin, an Air Force Pararescueman. 

Okay, I know it’s not just me thinking this, what’s a Pararescueman?

Bobby:  Okay, let’s get this over with. Generally I’m not one to toot my own horn, but it took a lot to get here and that’s something I’m extremely proud of. So, we are also known as PJs, a group of Air Force elite, and are the only group in the Department of Defense specifically trained and equipped to conduct conventional and unconventional rescue processes. Our main mission is personnel recovery and combat search and rescue operations.

Additionally, PARARECUEMEN are among the most highly trained emergency trauma specialists in the U.S. military and we must earn and maintain an emergency medical technician paramedic qualification throughout their careers. Just for shits and giggles I brought along the list of training we have to go through to be a pararescueman. After completion of six weeks of Basic Military Training, we spend the next 17 months training at the following schools:

 •The PARARESCUE/Combat Control

 Indoctrination Course

 10 weeks, Lackland AFB, TX

 •US Army Airborne Parachutist School

 3 weeks, Fort Benning, GA

 •US Army Combat Divers School

 4 weeks, Key West, FL

 •US Navy Underwater Egress Training

 1 day, Pensacola NAS, FL

 •US Air Force Basic Survival School

 2 and a half weeks, Fairchild AFB, WA

 •US Army Military Freefall Parachutist School

 5 weeks, Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ

 •Special Operations Combat Medic Course

 22 weeks, Fort Bragg, NC

 •PARARESCUE Recovery Specialist Course

 20 weeks, Kirtland AFB, NM

Then the real fun begins. Many of us have spent the greater part of the past eight years in Iraq and Afghanistan where we have one mission only, and that is to rescue American or Allied forces in extreme danger.  Our targets have been shot down or are isolated behind enemy lines, surrounded, engaged, wounded, or captured by the enemy, we will do whatever necessary to bring our brothers and sisters home.

That’s it in a nutshell.

There is something so hot about men in uniform. I was in the Army once. My father has a legion, real elite. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. Anyway, I served as a recruiter. There was this Roman Centurion I once knew.... I mean if you’re going to go all out, Centurion is the way to go. Pararescuemen are a lot like Centurions, they are both hot, and soldiers. One flies in a helicopter and the other...okay, so there not a lot alike, but a girl can dream, can’t she? You wouldn’t understand until you’ve seen a man with great legs wearing a tunic and armor. And though I love the primitive charm of a man with a sword, there’s certainly nothing wrong with a man who knows how to handle a gun.

Er, weapon. Isn’t that what they’re calling it these days? Sword—gun, they’re all rather phallic wouldn’t you say?

So, Bobby....

Bobby: (cocks an eyebrow)

Tell everyone a bit about yourself. What it is you do? How you got into your current line of work.

Bobby: Beyond all the other stuff that PJ’s do, I’m also a trained sniper. Comes in handy now and then. As for what got me here? I’d have to give my mother credit for that one. She gave me a strong sense of honor and pride in my country, and while she may not have thought I’d take this route with my life, it was really the only way I could see myself going. I wouldn’t want to do anything else.

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How did you end up soliciting the services of 1NightStand?

Bobbie: Actually I’d, uh…well, I helped my Lieutenant get together with his wife through 1 Nightstand. After they got married, I was bullied into using the service for myself.

Tell me about what you were looking for in a woman, what qualifications were a must on that application?

Bobbie: All women are hot in their own way. But for me, long legs, a nice rack. Typical guy stuff, I guess.

Was your date everything you expected?

Bobbie: Not exactly. I mean Siobhan was, for sure! The moment I saw her I was hooked. But she also tripped every warning bell I had, too.

Anything you didn’t?

Bobby: Being shot at was a real buzzkill. Having my teammates come rescue us with Siobhan wrapped in only a sheet wasn’t fun either. The jackasses still haven’t let me forget it.

All right, let’s get to the quickies. Everyone likes the quickies.

Damsel in Distress or Xena, Warrior Princess?

Bobby: Xena

T or A?

Bobby: T

Boxers or  briefs?

Bobby: Commando

Southern Belles or Northern Babes?

Bobby: Southern

Ever had a little demon tail?

Bobby: No. But I’ve kicked some demon as— um, tail.

What? It’s a legitimate question. I’ve really been doing my best lately to behave, but such hotness sitting across from me, and well, I regress a teeny bit. I’m a lover, not a fighter. Okay, okay, so I have been known to shove the occasional date into lava and torment the damned, but I have my reasons.

Okay, that pretty much kills our time like a sniper with a bullet.

Stop by next month and see who sitting in the hot seat. Thanks for stopping by Bobby, oh, and one last question for the road.

You’re traveling to Singapore on the Oriental Express. You see a little man hobble toward the baggage cars and go inside. You go after him to tell him the sleepers are in the other direction, only to find him tearing through luggage. When you ask him what he’s doing, he turns around and you realize the old dude isn’t old at all. In fact, he’s not a dude. The woman has a twelve inch blade and lunges for you. All you have in your pockets are chopsticks from the lo mien you’d been eating and floss, because you have fantastic dental hygiene.

You’re too far from the exit to get to it before she gets to you and guts you like a fish. What do you do?

Bobby: First off, we Pararescuemen are trained in hand-to-hand combat. This princess doesn’t stand a chance with her pointy fingernail file. And it’s not like I can just ignore her or call train security. I glance at the baggage she’d been digging through. Oh, sh*t, there’s weapon’s grade uranium in there. Must have been what she’d been after. Now we’re talking national security. The b*tch is going down. I just wait for her lunge, disarm her, and hog tie her with a belt from one of the bags she’d been rifling through. From another suitcase, I grab a sock and stuff it in her mouth. Whipping out my chopsticks from my back pocket, I stick them between her teeth (so she can’t spit out the sock), and tie them behind her head with the floss. Now that she’s secure, I call the train security officer and report the threat to national security.

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Pararescuemen to the Rescue!

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DEBBIE: We’re here to announce the release of our next book in the 1Night Stand Pararescue series.

LAURA: Oh! Love those Pararescuemen. Soooo hot!

DEBBIE: LOL Yes they are.

LAURA: Colin, Bobby, Zeke, Kyle, and Jason. The team in this series is awesome. The series started with Bobby in Second Chance.

DEBBIE: I just love that story. Colin and Emily’s story dealt with some deep emotional issues.

LAURA: It did. I know I had my tissue box out with that one. This release is Bobby’s story with In My Sights.

DEBBIE: Bobby is sooo hot!

LAURA: Oh yeah! And he and Siobhan change each other’s lives.

DEBBIE: And that leaves the other team members.

LAURA: Zeke, Kyle and Jason. Yep…and we’re working on Zeke’s story right now.

DEBBIE: This one is definitely taking some interesting twists and turns.

LAURA: Well, we can’t become predictable. Sheesh!

DEBBIE: LOL Right.

LAURA: But what we can do is share a bit about our team and what it takes to become a Pararescueman.

DEBBIE: Yes, we can! J

"Pipeline" Training

   After completion of six weeks of Basic Military Training, we spend the next 17 months training at the following schools:

•The PARARESCUE/Combat Control

Indoctrination Course

10 weeks, Lackland AFB, TX

•US Army Airborne Parachutist School

3 weeks, Fort Benning, GA

•US Army Combat Divers School

4 weeks, Key West, FL

•US Navy Underwater Egress Training

1 day, Pensacola NAS, FL

•US Air Force Basic Survival School

2 and a half weeks, Fairchild AFB, WA

•US Army Military Freefall Parachutist School

5 weeks, Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ

•Special Operations Combat Medic Course

22 weeks, Fort Bragg, NC

•PARARESCUE Recovery Specialist Course

20 weeks, Kirtland AFB, NM

Air Force Pararescuemen, also known as PJs, are the only DoD elite combat forces specifically organized, trained, equipped, and postured to conduct full spectrum Personnel Recovery (PR) to include both conventional and unconventional combat rescue operations. These Battlefield Airmen are the most highly trained and versatile Personnel Recovery specialists in the world. Pararescue is the nation's force of choice to execute the most perilous, demanding, and extreme rescue missions anytime, anywhere across the globe. The 500+ PJs are assigned to Guardian Angel and Special Tactics Squadrons throughout the Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve Air Force components. They operate most often as independent teams but routinely serve alongside with other US and Allied Special Operations Forces

Mission

To rescue, recover, and return American or Allied forces in times of danger or extreme duress. Whether shot down or isolated behind enemy lines; surrounded, engaged, wounded, or captured by the enemy; PJs will do whatever required to deny the enemy a victory and bring our warriors home to fight another day

Capabilities

To execute the PR mission, Pararescue teams assault, secure, and dominate the rescue objective area utilizing any available DoD or Allied, air, land, or sea asset. Their qualifications and capabilities are extensive. All PJs are qualified experts in Advanced Weapons and Small Unit Tactics, Airborne and Military Free Fall, both High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) and High Altitude High Opening (HAHO) parachute operations, Combat Divers, High Angle/Confined Space Rescue operations, Small Boat/Vehicle Craft utilization, Rescue Swimmers, and Battlefield Trauma/Paramedics. All can fast rope/rappel/hoist from any vertical lift aircraft to both land and open ocean rescue objectives. All PJs can perform both static line and HALO jump operations utilizing boats, vehicles, or other equipment from any fixed wing aircraft. In addition, 1 in 12 personnel are tandem jump qualified and can HALO/HAHO both equipment and non-jump personnel into the objective area. As required, all PJs can jump in with and utilize extrication devices to remove war fighters or civilians trapped in wreckage or collapse structures. PJs also utilize the latest subsurface technology to locate and recover submerged equipment or personnel.

Recent History

Since 9/11 alone, these elite warriors have executed over 12,000 life saving, combat rescue missions. They've also eliminated and captured numerous enemy combatants during the execution of these missions. Additionally, because of their unique capabilities, they have been called upon to rescue over 5000 civilians worldwide during catastrophic natural disasters and other responses.

Decorations

PJs are the most highly decorated Air Force enlisted force. They've been awarded one Medal of Honor, 12 Air Force Crosses, and 105 Silver Stars.

Their motto, "These Things We Do, That Others May Live," affirms Pararescue's dedication and commitment to saving lives and self-sacrifice. As of January 2012, 10 pararescuemen have been killed in action and paid the ultimate sacrifice during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Pararescue Creed “ It is my duty as a Pararescueman to save lives and to aid the injured. I will be prepared at all times to perform my assigned duties quickly and efficiently, placing these duties before personal desires and comforts. These things I do, that others may live.

DEBBIE: The dedication these men have toward everything they do just amazes me. I truly believe it has to be a calling and not just a job. They don’t do it for the glory or recognition. Sadly, one of the members of a special ops team from my daughter’s base was killed in a motorcycle accident this past month. It turns out he was also a good friend of my co-workers husband. Small world since the base is in Florida and we are from Vermont. He and my daughter never knew each other yet they both grew up with-in a thirty mile radius in Vermont and were both at the same base in Florida. Anyway, my whole point to this was that this man never told his parents or his brother, who is also in the military, about the three bronze medals he’d been awarded over the years.  That was a man who didn’t do the dangerous things he did for glory, but for love.

LAURA: No wonder these guys seem like superheroes….it’s cause they are! Look at all that training!! How could they not hold superhero status after all THAT??

DEBBIE: So, anyway, I hope we’ve done justice to the hero’s of our series and that in some small way they reflect the real life, everyday hero’s that not only exist in the military, but all those people that are out there trying to make their small part of the world a better place to live.

In My Sights blurb:

Six months ago, Siobhan Cantrell’s world was changed forever by a sniper’s bullet. The incident transformed her from a secure confident woman to a recluse, afraid to leave her own home. When her friends urge her to re-enter the world of the living, they suggest Madame Eve’s 1Night Stand dating service. Nervous, she signs up and learns the company is renown for in-depth background checks and safe encounters. So, how dangerous could it be?

Sergeant Bobby Martin has witnessed Madame Eve’s magic firsthand. His teammate found true love through her service. Still a skeptic but giving in to peer pressure, the Air Force Pararescueman signs himself up. When he meets Siobhan, his doubts flies out the window—unfortunately bullets start flying in them. Determined to protect her from a sniper that won’t give up, Bobby vows to keep her safe. As their chemistry ramps up, so does the sniper’s attempts.

Can Bobby keep Siobhan alive, or will the killer catch them in his sights?