Jack of Harts

Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases in Louisiana and Texas were part of Global Strike Command when the Second Great Depression came upon us all. The massive B-52 bombers trained and flew from Barksdale, while Luke AFB trained and flew the powerful F-35 air superiority and strike fighter. The B-52s were the oldest airframes the Air Force commonly deployed at the time, while the F-35s were the newest and arguably the most powerful fighter America had ever built. The problem was that their focus was fighting other major nation states, and America’s ability to do that during the Second Great Depression was heavily reduced. The federal government had burned away the moral authority to command them, and it lacked the financial resources to support them, and so both bases fell on hard times.