Jack of Harts

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 populous State governments sent them house to house to separate the ill from the healthy. They closed businesses and churches, manned checkpoints on the streets, and arrested people traveling without approved papers describing them as essential workers. Texas and many other States followed a different model. Yes, they did instruct their citizens to follow normal pandemic routines like physical distancing, and they banned large physical gatherings. But where some States banned all gatherings of any kind, Texas encouraged virtual gatherings so people could compare notes on doctors or treatments that worked. They did not use the military to enforce their rules, and the national media networks attacked them relentlessly for refusing to do that. And for allowing their people to say things the media did not approve of. So when the media called on the federal government to mobilize the military to shut down all non-approved gatherings of any kind throughout America, Fort Hood was one of the many military bases that prayed to God the President would not be that stupid.