diff --git a/scripts/gcp-clean.sh b/scripts/gcp-clean.sh
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index e80f14d..0000000
--- a/scripts/gcp-clean.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-## Clean VM in prep for (re)running VM work
-
-echo "=== gcp-clean-vm.sh"
-
-## Cleanup for 06_running_analysis
-sudo apt remove --yes git
-rm -rf ~/CLASS-Examples
diff --git a/scripts/gcp-vpc-create-default.sh b/scripts/gcp-vpc-create-default.sh
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index 0000000..b6a8485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/gcp-vpc-create-default.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+## Create a default VPC similar to the GCP default.
+echo "===  gcp-vpc-create-default.sh"
+
+echo "+++ creating the default VCP network allowing internal traffic and external ssh and ICMP access"
+gcloud compute networks create default
+gcloud compute firewall-rules create default-allow-internal --network default --allow all --source-ranges=10.128.0.0/9
+gcloud compute firewall-rules create default-allow-external --network default --allow tcp:22,icmp