Jack of Harts

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was most famously the home of the United States Air Force Boneyard, the place where old aircraft took their final flight before retirement. They were officially a ready reserve of aircraft against a future emergency, but the Air Force often stripped them of spare parts to keep other aircraft operating. Especially during periods of budget cuts when various peace dividends and new social contracts demanded that politicians take money from the military to pay for far more worthy social spending. It was those budget cuts that eventually closed Davis-Monthan a decade before the Second Great Depression. The squadrons that called it home were moved or retired with the base, but the Boneyard remained. Davis-Monthan remained an official Air Base, patrolled by local security consultants, but every aircraft that landed there was never meant to take off again. They were the final reserve of a United States Air Force slowly losing prestige, funding, and power to the far sexier and younger Space Force.