American military and police forces were trained in a sliding scale of ever more intrusive missions as the Second Great Depression approached. And when yet another pandemic came out of China in the mid-Twenty First Century, many of the most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2020
Fort Hood’s training scenarios became increasingly virtual as the Second Great Depression approached. They had the very best fully immersive virtual simulations of course, and the federal politicians had a much better use for their money than wasting it on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Hood’s military funding suffered greatly in the years before the Second Great Depression. They received feasibility funding for testing prototype mech deployment within the armored cavalry, but all other combat-oriented budget line items were cut to the bone. Many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Hood was famous as the home of armored cavalry during the decades leading up to the Second Great Depression. They were, by the Grace of God, blessed to be stationed in the Great State of Texas. Home of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An influential President of the past once said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” as he led America into a war against a dastardly enemy who killed millions of people. The media flocked to his standard.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the founding years of the American military when the British were the oppressive enemy, the army was based around militia units recruiting young men from the surrounding territory. Many soldiers in the years and decades that followed would spend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fighting in the Borderplex involved local police and sheriffs, Texas Rangers, action teams from nearby Joint Base White Sands, and what remained of the local Mexican police and army. With both the American and Mexican federal governments effectively gone,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At a time when many military bases fell apart or joined the State they resided in to survive, Joint Base White Sands continued flying the American flag atop their flagpoles. Their operational reach was greatly diminished compared to pre-Second Great[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fort Bliss and Holloman Air Force Base lacked the personnel or the equipment to continue operating at previous levels after the Second Great Depression set in. With no more federal support arriving, and the cities around them suffering their own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression was not kind to the military reservations surrounding the White Sands Missile Range. The drop in federal funding left them surviving off local resources alone. Many soldiers chose to go home, often taking whatever supplies or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…