Jack of Harts

Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases had little involvement in the Texas Drug Wars against the Mexican drug cartels. They did send a mixed squadron of bombers and fighters to support some of the larger strikes against the most powerful of the cartels, but they were the very definition of the term overkill. They left little behind to salvage, but Texas granted them generous access to their supply bases in order to replenish their own depleted spare parts inventories. They otherwise maintained an official distance from the Texas State government that the American President had declared to be in a state of insurrection. Until of course the Convention of States called the federal government back to order. But though the lands around them joined Texas, those two bases never did. They remained proudly American despite the many difficulties that entailed.