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Mar 25th 2012!⃝The characters in this song are two friends who work as civilian contractors for the CIA, or some other quasi-military organization.
They are probably pilots or mechanics flying covert missions is and around Vietnam. (Vietnam is "a hurricane that's abandoned," i.e., the American government has withdrawn, but covert operations (perhaps drug smuggling) continues.
"The Sandman" is an operative (probably a higher-up). One of the characters has done something -- possibly defected -- that has caused the Sandman to come after him, either to arrest or kill him.
Hence "he (the Sandman) flies the sky like an eagle (he's American) in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned.
At song's end one of the characters (the "good American/ good soldier, so to speak) meets briefly with his on-the-run buddy and mentions that he (the good soldier) has enlisted into the Amry/Air Force proper.
