Chapter 279 Jennifer

"Barron, I'm already in Los Angeles. Can I meet you sometime?"

  In the evening, Barron received a call from Amanda.

  She is currently studying at Boston University, which is not very close to Los Angeles. If she has already arrived in Los Angeles, then she must have come here by flight...

  The flight from Boston to Los Angeles takes 5-6 hours. Based on this time, she should have been about to board the plane when she called Lydia.

  but...

  Didn't she tell Lydia on the phone that they would come together to see Barron tomorrow?

  Women.

  However, the beauty came from afar to see him... uh no, to see him, so Barron certainly would not refuse.

  The temperature in Los Angeles in April is not cold. Sometimes the highest temperature during the day can reach 25 degrees, and even at night, it is above 15 degrees.

  When Barron met Amanda, she was only wearing a long dress.

  "Barron, I missed you so much..."

  Compared to Lydia, Amanda can be described as passionate. After seeing Barron, she trotted over and rushed into his arms.

  Fortunately, this was in Amanda's own villa, otherwise Barron would really be worried about being photographed by paparazzi...

  In that case, he would have to think about how to explain it to Bonnie.

  After a passionate kiss, Amanda blushed slightly. She leaned her head against Barron's arms, looked to one side, and asked softly:

  "Are you going back tonight?"

  …

  The trouble was that when Barron returned to his Malibu beach house the next day, he first found his tie and put it on...

  After all, you need to button up your shirt to hide the "medal" near your collarbone.

  I have to say, Amanda is really passionate.

  On April 10, two days after her due date, Rebecca gave birth to a baby girl.

  Barron named her Jennifer, his first child, Jennifer Cavendish.

  Barron carefully took the baby from the nurse's hands as if he was hugging a treasure - even if it was a treasure, in his eyes at this moment, it was not as precious as the baby in his arms.

  "Why does she look a bit ugly, with wrinkled skin..."

  When Barron showed Rebecca her daughter's appearance, Rebecca said with a little disappointment.

  Her mother explained to her:

  "Babies are all like this when they are born. You were like this at first. It will be fine after a while. She is not ugly. You can see that her eyebrows and eyes are very beautiful. Our Jennifer will definitely be a great beauty in the future."

  To be honest, when Barron first met his daughter Jennifer and saw her appearance, he had the same feeling as Rebecca. After all, he had never experienced such a thing before.

  Fortunately, after hearing what Rebecca's mother said, he felt relieved a little and hoped that it was really as she said.

  Apart from looking a little wrinkled, according to the doctor, little Jennifer is very healthy and weighed more than 9 pounds when she was born.  

  After her initial crying, she looked at Barron with her big eyes and suddenly smiled, which made Barron feel like his heart was melting...

  At this moment, holding Jennifer, he had a vague feeling of being connected by blood.

  This feeling is very wonderful.

  …

  Since entering 2004, starting from March, British troops stationed in Iraq have begun their withdrawal plan.

  The number of British troops that initially entered the Iraqi battlefield once reached 45,000.

  After the Saddam regime was overthrown and the transitional government was established, the British army began to gradually withdraw. Currently, there are less than 30,000 British troops left in Iraq.

  According to the British government's plan, British troops will continue to be withdrawn within this year, ensuring that the number of British troops remaining in Iraq is less than 20,000.

  But even though Iraq has completed the "change of regime", their new government still does not have complete control of the situation. Instead, the wanton killing of civilians by the British and American coalition forces and military contractors such as Blackwater in Iraq has aroused more resistance forces, which continue to launch various attacks on the coalition forces and the targets of the United Kingdom and the United States.

  Therefore, when the British government began to push forward its withdrawal plan under domestic pressure, as British troops were withdrawn, more and more security tasks needed to be undertaken by private military companies.

  Before this year, the Protector Military Company's personnel in Iraq had increased to more than 1,000.

  However, these personnel are still far from meeting the local security needs. Therefore, since this year, they have been continuously increasing their personnel, and currently their number of personnel in Iraq has exceeded 1,500.

  In fact, if necessary, they are fully capable of providing more personnel. After all, after the Iraq War, many of the soldiers who withdrew to the British mainland have begun to retire, and a considerable number of them can be absorbed by the Protector Military Company.

  But Barron did not want the Protector Military Company to be too eager to expand and eventually lose control, leading to the same fate as the Blackwater Company in its previous life. Therefore, he has been controlling the scale and requirements of the Protector Military Company's absorption of retired British troops.

  However, there is still a problem. That is, the personnel of the Protector Military Company who perform security missions in Iraq need to remain on alert most of the time. After a long time, the psychological pressure will gradually accumulate and need proper guidance. Otherwise, these armed personnel will inevitably get out of control.

  Therefore, the personnel sent to Iraq by the Protector Military Company will be given a "vacation" to return home or go to other places to recuperate after a period of time.

  For this reason, since April, a large number of African-American armed personnel from the Protectorate military company have begun to appear in Iraq.

  Most of these personnel were local Kolo soldiers from the Kolo Corps, who were rotated to the Protector Military Company's Iraq base for overseas missions.

  This kind of rotation method, on the one hand, can strengthen the "actual combat training" of the Kolo Corps' local armed personnel, and on the other hand, it can also keep the personnel stationed in Iraq able to complete the rotation.

  Because being sent to Iraq can get higher subsidies and greatly increase income, for the local soldiers of the Kolo Corps, this is also an opportunity that many of them are vying for. It is often a "reward" that only the soldiers with the best performance can get.

  The British veterans from the Protector Military Company who temporarily returned to Kolo from their base in Iraq for rest and recuperation can also be responsible for training local soldiers in Kolo, which is safer and more stable. Although their income at this time is not as high as in Iraq, it is necessary for them to balance their psychology.

  The Kolo Corps took over some of the equipment of the former Kolo government forces. The main force of these equipment were French equipment originally purchased from France.

  But after the establishment of the Kolo Corps, the government forces would naturally not continue their previous reliance on France for military equipment.

  Their equipment will gradually shift to the standard equipment of the British Army.

  The arrival of these former British soldiers will also help the soldiers of the Kolo Corps become familiar with some British equipment.

  It also includes the CH47 Chinook transport helicopter that has served in the British Army.

  These helicopters have now been assigned to the Kolo Corps. Prior to this, they were operated by retired British Army members. Afterwards, relevant local talents in Kolo will also be trained one after another.