This could be a great story if thr author was more knowledgeable. Tactical folks don’t leave on a mission without their rifles and just a handgun. And if they get caught in that situation, they pick up the enemies weapons. Such silly mistakes kept coming up in the story…very annoying. To much unnecessary idle dialog…”I ghosted you all those years ago because yadi-yada”…” we can’t let the children know what is going on because they will be scared or ruined for life” as we are running away from people who shot at us and kidnapped one of us…what?”. If it wasn’t for the excellent narration I would have stopped listening. I love prepper stories because I usually learn something, but so far the civilian prepper is a dud, an almost beta-male loser with good intentions. Hopefully the action part of the story picks up, but I’m not hopeful for this writer.