The Solider Husband

27 December, City K Military Base

Matthew looked directly at General Man "I told him it was properly authorised and was approved be headquarters. Both are true. Such reorganisation can only occur with the authority of a general, which I am, and the headquarters staff clearly instructed me when they gave me this deployment to reorganise the special forces here to be an effective group, as they could not see that it was the case."

"Matthew, damn it. The truth, and he has no idea."

"He also 'advised me' as he sees it however, however in reality he was giving me an order, to change the police liaison from John Nang to a junior he knows and trust. He proceeded to bad mouth those from a rich background who go into the police and military, nor realising …"

"You likely went to school with John Nang …" and General Man noticed Matthew nodding his head "and you are the equal largest shareholder in JT International. I am betting your bank account that Phillip manages have billions in them?"

"I have no idea. I live within my military salary, other than the management of my villa here which Phillip is responsible for. Phillip from that money monthly donates the amount equal to my salary to the veteran's association. He never tells me that there is not sufficient money for it."

"You surprise me. I knew that there was a regular donation stream to the veteran's association, but I had no idea you were behind it. I know what your salary is, and Phillip has 500,000 a month donated."

"I am going to kill him. And I bet that it is donated in my name."

"All I know is the donations come in from 'a serving solider and his family'."

"OK, maybe I will not kill him, the idiot. Getting back to why I am here. I am letting you know in the long term; Major Hung must go from here as there is no way that I can work with him, and I would guess most senior officers on base cannot stand him. However, I will keep him here until I can determine if he is the source of all the problems here or not. The officers who are being transferred here, will help me monitor him and others who I end up thinking will be problematic, and can potentially replace him if needed."

"Matthew, you are a general. You do not have to justify your decisions to me. The special forces are yours to command, and technically only in your absence to they fall under my control." Edward paused "Now what do you have planned tonight?"

"I am heading back to my villa, and then going out to a club with Phillip and some friends. With Phillip's health and my need to be back here early tomorrow, I plan to have an early night."

"Go have fun. In the next few weeks, I am going to guess that you will have little opportunity."

"Thank you, Edward."

With that Matthew stood up and existed the room. He looked at his watch and realised it was 5:20pm. By the time he finished a couple of things he would have Warrant Officer Wang take him back to his villa.

Meanwhile

Major Hung stormed back into the intelligence area for the special forces, and into his office slamming his office door behind him. Damn military hierarchy. He had done more than his time here to be promoted to a colonel and given command of special forces here, and quickly parlayed that into a move to another area where he could achieve his goals.

They bring in this Colonel Rong who is intent to destroy everything he has built here, a good military career, but able to manipulate the intelligence as everyone on the analyst group was loyal to him. What was worst when he attempted to access his service file, all he could access was basic information, nothing about his career. That worried him, what was being hidden?

He opened his desk drawn and pulled out his laptop and went into access the recordings from General Man's hospital room and Colonel Rong's office. What the … All there was on both recordings was static. How in the world did that occur? Were the devices faulty? He double checked and found out that both had static here Colonel Rong was in the room.

That was even more worrying, how could he determine what was happening to protect himself and get rid of Colonel Rong. That would have to secure his promotion.