Lifeline

摘要

The drop zone is six miles out and we're in a Lockheed L-382 Hercules, doing 150 mph over the world's largest swamp. When the rear door and ramp open, the heat and humidity pour in like pressurized steam. We're 700 feet above a green sea that stretches forever. Buildings? Telephone lines? Cars? Navigation aids? Not a chance. It's the Middle Ages down there. Veteran Here pilot Carl Sampson, a good old American boy wearing a blue baseball cap embroidered with "American Embassy," is lining up to drop 35,640 pounds of yellow corn on a place called Yirol.