Jack of Harts

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 firing live or simulated munitions. The pandemics that continued to come out of developing China every decade or so had to be fought, and the United States Armed Forces was the perfect front line combatant for such a conflict. They were largely young and healthy, and therefore least likely to fall to the illnesses. And if they did, they were only a small sacrifice to make to save the much more enlightened people in the universities and government who must be saved for the good of humanity. No one who mattered would mourn the deaths of those who had volunteered to murder innocent people after all. So the vast majority of Fort Hood’s old training funds were funneled into building containment facilities for pandemic victims, or for training in the best ways to enter public or private spaces to separate the sick from the healthy. Or those who refused to follow appropriate medical guidance for their own safety.