Jack of Harts

Norfolk tried to stay out of the fighting between the Federal government, Richmond, and the rest of Virginia. It tried very hard to not get involved. But the Feds and Richmond were having too many problems keeping enough of a fighting force loyal to them to push through to Lexington and remove the former Vice President from their list of problems. So of course they ordered the Navy to go in to kill Freemon and burn the rest of Lexington to the ground. They assumed the Navy fliers would succeed where the Air Force had failed them. They were wrong. Naval Station Norfolk had no intention of sending their helicopters and fighters out with orders to shoot their fellow Americans. The base commander had in fact gone through channels to inform her superiors of that fact. So when the politicians called her bluff, she revealed that she was not bluffing.

The Federal government and Richmond reacted quickly when former Vice President Freemon appeared in Lexington, Virginia. They dispatched a far larger law enforcement and military force to deal with the man once and for all. The orders technically stated that they wanted him dead or alive, but were weighted in such a way that anyone with more brain power than the average network mouthpiece knew that this time they wanted him dead and only dead. This was too much for the soldiers of Fort Lee, who quickly announced their intention to stop any attempt to kill the former Vice President. It should be noted that Fort Lee had been renamed in previous decades in honor of a more politically correct individual than the former Virginia general. That made using the name Fort Lee another very interesting message, one that anyone smarter than the average network mouthpiece also noticed.