I dont understand why they would go though the trouble of deceiving everyone when they could just say "Look ben has a station that can kill everyone if he so chooses, we are gonna go disable it, be back tomorrow" No need to pistol-whip the hottest girl on the show

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Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.

Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?

Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.