Chapter 34 It Only Takes One Part 3

[Condor]

I'm wondering...was it ever stated how many soldiers are at Irwin? I know they said there were like 8200 at Boulder (correct me if I'm wrong on that). So does that mean there more at Irwin or fewer? Because if we're talking about more soldiers than Boulder's 8200 at Irwin, that's a pretty big defense force against the Inklings. Although nothing comes easy in We're Alive and the worst case scenario usually finds a way of happening. And it pretty much rules out any chance of the Mallers trying to attack Irwin unless Irwin gets so decimated that there's pretty much no one left.
But if there's only a small reserve force at Irwin and the bulk was in Boulder...well that's a different story now isn't it?

Not sure of the number at the time of attack, but when Michael first arrives at Irwin and get "drafted" by Kimmet, Kimmet says there are about 2000 on base, 200 training in "the box", & 182 out in the field. He mentions most of the soldiers are at Boulder for defending the 150,000 civilians there. Also, by what he said, I'm under the impression there was a steady rotation of troops to/from Boulder.

As for two Sat Phones: No, too much of a coincidence. Also: The crew from L.A. left only one dead body, right? Why would a single person keep two sat-phones on him? Saul and Victor only found one device; and they did not search the chopper landing site thoroughly a second time. No: there is no second sat-phone - at least not one with the Irwin-phone-number in its memory.

Who says the caller is human, not that I believe that theory but the 2nd phone could have been on the chopper that went down.

Haven't we all taboo'd the idea that we only hear narration from survivors or their journal entries? Don't we hear a lot of on-goings in the story despite no journal recording of such? Like Angel dying for example?

Not sure if it's been consistent, but Angel's death was witnessed by Bricks, who then told Lizzy the story, so she could have recorded it in a journal.