Alex McEwen, Tier 1 Operator.
Alex hits them with a code that's known as a verbal IFF.
But here's what Alex doesn't know.
That's when Alex sees it.
Two men beeline for him as the third heads up a hill and shoulders a rifle, aimed at Alex's skull.
And then something happens that chills Alex's blood.
Alex!
They blindfold Alex and zip-tie his wrists.
He sweeps Alex with it from head to toe.
A 7.62 round tears through Alex's right shoulder, clavicle pulverized, shattering bone and flesh.
The entire universe of Alex McEwen blinked out like a dying star, sudden and violent.
Alex McEwen, tier one operator, patriot, now just a corpse in the Chihuahuan desert.
Alex's execution.