Jack of Harts

Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases lost at least half of their personnel to desertion in the early months of the Second Great Depression. They were some of the highest flying and farthest reaching of the Air Forces bases at the time, but without the money to fly, most of the airmen simply lost the willingness to come in to work and moved off in search of home. Enough remained that they were able to secure the bases and rebuild in time, but the early years of the Second Great Depression found them largely without a mission. Their remaining personnel were unwilling to “turn traitor” and join Texas, but found themselves unable to follow the orders of the increasingly-erratic new President. That left them holding station in the middle of the chaos flowing through America at the time.