50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 666 Retirement? Scrapped!

The waters of Malacca have been a transportation hub between East and West since ancient times.

With the end of World War II, many Asian countries, including the Four Asian Tigers and the Four Asian Dragons, rose rapidly, resulting in tens of thousands of ships passing through this natural waterway every year.

These merchant ships, numerous in number and carrying high-value goods, lacked armed protection, making them prime targets for pirates.

The presence of numerous islands in the surrounding area provided convenient hiding places for pirates, which in turn fueled the rise of piracy.

The emergence of pirates often depends on several factors: complex terrain, profitability, and a power vacuum. From ancient times to the present, these conditions have been a breeding ground for pirates.

Southeast Asia meets all the conditions, which is why neighboring countries have been unable to eradicate pirates.

Therefore, Sun Zhiwei remained quite wary of the threat posed by local pirates. Of course, this was also one of the reasons he built his base here: to facilitate troop training.

Training alone is not enough; you have to go to the battlefield. Even if there is no major battle to fight, suppressing bandits is a form of real combat.

Once the training camp is built, every soldier who wants to graduate from the camp must participate in a combat assessment. This will be an ironclad rule of the Subi Island training camp.

Two days later, Sun Zhiwei took Dong Haoyang from Pontianak and once again set foot on the town of Subi Island by speedboat.

He came here this time to assess the equipment that is lacking on the island, so that he can purchase it on his next visit.

After obtaining the list of urgently needed equipment from Dong Haoyang, he took Dong Haoyang to the church in the center of the town.

There is a basement here, which Sun Zhiwei used as a temporary armory, storing a large number of weapons and ammunition intended for use by the training camp.

The weapons and equipment inside now mainly include 10,000 M16A1 rifles, 1,000 Chicago Typewriters, 500 RPG rocket launchers, 100 Black Star rifles, and 10 Stinger missiles.

He didn't bother to calculate the exact amount of grenades and explosives; he just put hundreds of boxes of them inside.

The number of bullets corresponding to the guns was even more exaggerated; Sun Zhiwei prepared 1 bullets for each weapon.

The main advantage of the M16A1 is its extremely high rate of fire, theoretically reaching 750-900 rounds per minute.

Soldiers' training consumes a lot of bullets, so he prepared extra.

He recalled a statistic that said, excluding those with exceptional talent, it would take an average soldier 5 to 6 rounds of ammunition to train a sharpshooter.

Moreover, even after mastering marksmanship, a marksman must constantly repeat training to consolidate the results and prevent their marksmanship from regressing.

Judging from this rate of loss, it's uncertain how long his ammunition will last.

However, there's no need to panic. He has enough ammunition stored in his space, and he can come over to replenish it whenever the island runs out.

These are just basic weapons. To arm a special forces soldier, much more is needed, including clothing, knives, vehicles, body armor, silencers, night vision goggles, and so on.

Fortunately, these items are not controlled goods and can be easily purchased in many surrounding cities.

Moreover, both the Pinkerton headquarters and the instructors from the Pinkerton training camp who came with them had contact information for procurement channels around the world.

Therefore, he doesn't need to manage the procurement of these items; he only needs to allocate funds to the account in a timely manner.

In the daily construction and management of Subi Island, all he needed to do was provide the money and send a finance officer to oversee the accounts.

Since the group company was established, he no longer needs to work alone like before.

He can call in people whenever needed, especially as Pinkerton's global network of locations takes shape, this will become the norm.

In terms of equipment, the only thing he needs to prepare specifically is heavy equipment.

Individual weapons are lacking, including mortars and sniper rifles; vehicles are lacking, including various armored vehicles, tanks, transport planes, cargo ships, surface vessels, and submarines. These are all large, expensive items, and Dong Haoyang and his team have no way of procuring them.

Sun Zhiwei didn't plan to buy it directly, but instead prepared to think of other ways.

Fortunately, my father-in-law's side hasn't prepared their manpower yet, so there's still time.

He spent one night on Subi Island, and the next day, he had someone take him back to Pontianak.

He plans to acquire two UH-60 utility helicopters, also known as Black Hawk helicopters, as transport aircraft.

The UH-60 and its various derivative helicopters have sold well all over the world due to their excellent performance, with more than 4500 units produced since 74.

Sun Zhiwei himself has flown the helicopter many times, so he is very satisfied with its performance.

Moreover, because this thing is widely available and relatively easy to buy, his first thought was to buy second-hand goods from the US military.

Major Grand Page, the air force chief at Balabac Air Base in Borneo, is a good example.

Major Page had made a lot of quick money by repeatedly renting helicopters to Sun Zhiwei, so when he saw Sun Zhiwei again, his eyes were practically squinting with a smile.

"Oh, my dear James, long time no see. Are you using a helicopter again this time?"

"Yes, dear Major Paige."

"No, no, no, look here." Paige leaned to the side so he could see her epaulets.

Sun Zhiwei then noticed that Major Page had become Lieutenant Colonel Page, which meant he had been promoted.

"Ah, you've been promoted. Congratulations, Lieutenant Colonel."

"Haha, congratulations! Come on, let's go to my office for a drink and chat."

The two went to Paige's private office, and then each of them took a glass of whiskey and talked while drinking.

“Mr. James, I went back to my home country last year and heard your name. It turns out you weren’t lying, you really are a very wealthy man.”

"Hehe, where did you see my name?"

"You were ranked tenth on the Forbes rich list last year."

"This is truly an enviable achievement. It turns out that one of the ten richest people in America is actually my friend. What an amazing coincidence."

"Haha, being a tycoon isn't all that great. Being a lieutenant colonel is the real enviable job. Come on, let's have a drink."

"cheers~!" "cheers~!"

After a few sips of wine, Sun Zhiwei began to steer the conversation: "I'm here today because I need the lieutenant colonel's help with something."

"Tell me what you need, as long as it's within my capabilities."

"No problem, no problem. I've acquired a small island in Malacca and need transportation. I was just thinking of getting two Black Hawk helicopters so I can travel back and forth more easily."

Lieutenant Colonel Page had originally planned to earn some more transportation fees from him, but little did he know there was an even bigger deal out there.

"Black Hawk? I actually have quite a few of these. Are you planning to buy one of my 'retired' Black Hawks?"

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel, if you have any scrapped Black Hawks here, I can buy them directly."

(End of this chapter)