Jack of Harts

The Metroplex police were sidelined by mayoral orders during the Second Great Depression. The sheriff departments had too few men to stop all the violence burning through the cities, so the Tarrant County Sheriff was in great need of a reinforced posse. Now it was against the law for the Feds to use Army or Air Force servicemen to enforce laws. The Feds had done so numerous times over the centuries, most famously during Reconstruction and Desegregation, but by and large they had abided by that limitation. But the law had never been updated to account for the Marine Corps, and the Space Force was specifically ordered to enforce laws in space. With this in mind, Americans are ever looking for ways to twist the law to their advantage when there is any wiggle room. So when word made it to Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base of Tarrant County’s urgent need, the base’s Military Police contingent suddenly discovered a deep and abiding love for all things Marine Corps. They resigned from the Army Reserve and volunteered to join VMFA-112, The Cowboys. The Marine commander accepted their service with a smile, granted them their previous ranks on an honorary basis, and the Tarrant County Sheriff formally drafted the entire unit into his posse. The law has changed, and that particular loophole is no longer available, but Tarrant County has never stricken The Cowboys from their posse. They are effectively grand fathered into the posse in just one of the many little peculiarities that has crept into the law over the centuries.