The Fort Sam Houston military police had a number of extremely bright and capable investigators and soldiers in their ranks. They sought to find out where the reinvigorated drug cartels were getting their supplies and intelligence from, and tracked it down to an American federal special warfare team liaising with them. They also learned who the leader of the team was, which was where the head of Fort Sam’s military police came in. He had gone through basic training together with the leader of the team, and used his knowledge of the man to plan their attack. The military police stormed the safe house at High Noon, when most of the team was asleep, and their massive leader subdued his opposite number less than a minute later. It took little time to convince the man to order his people to surrender rather than fight to the last man. Which is why there were survivors to show to the Texas government. That is how Texas learned the entirety of the team’s mission. That is why they knew where to look for other similar missions they believed the new President may have sent against other States. That proved to be important in the years that followed.
One must never underestimate the Fort Sam Houston military police. Their hulking commander was far smarter than he looked, and he had forged his men and women into a smart and calculating team well suited to dealing with the rather rambunctious servicemen who filled Fort Sam. They trained every day, whether standard exercises, or unarmed combat training, target ranges, the physical close combat courses, and the virtual training aids on a rotating daily basis. He believed that his people needed to be harder, faster, and better than the servicemen they would need to arrest when they did bad things, and he trained his people to be exactly that. To be sure, not all of the military police on Fort Sam met his rigorous requirements. They received less strenuous duties. But he threw his best and brightest against the most dangerous people he needed to bring in. That is why they were ready to act when they found the federal special warfare team liaising with the drug cartels.
Fort Sam’s military police helped bring San Antonio back under control in the end. It was a long, hard fight, and they served the sheriffs and civilian police in an advisory basis. The law did not allow them to be deputized after all, but they helped up to the very edge of the letter of the law, and some would say beyond that letter. They had the help of some of the best cyberneers on the planet, and many of the bad guys they tracked were not American citizens. Many of them were on the Mexican side of the border, which opened up other opportunities. They helped turn the tide in San Antonio and beyond. They found the information that proved the federal government was behind much of the death and destruction. And in the end, it was the military police who tracked down and fought one of the federal government’s special warfare teams that was liaising with the drug cartels. They won and dragged the surrendered survivors out to show the Texas government what the feds had been doing to them all for months. It did not improve the good will that Texas did not have for the new President and his cohorts.
The deal was simple. Stay home for two weeks to flatten the curve of the Wuhan Virus so the hospitals would not be overloaded. That has been achieved.
And yet time has gone on. Two months now, though some States are opening back up. That is considerably longer than the two weeks the American public agreed to. And some States are seeking to further alter the deal, with conditions like a vaccine or zero deaths or things like that, because some of them don’t think it is a deal at all. Some believe that they can simply order Americans to stay home, and they will give up their businesses and homes without seeking redress. That they can release criminals from their jails and jail common people who have broken no law and expect all to respect their authority. But the more tightly they grasp their citizens, the more will slip through their fingers and refuse to comply.
Respect the deal we made. We can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. We can stay back, keep clean, and open up at the same time. Though there are other options when bubblegum is involved. Especially if we run out of it due to a horrible supply chain brought down by these government shutdowns.
Lackland and Randolph Air Force Bases served as the American Air Force’s primary training centers in the decades leading up to the Second Great Depression. They performed various support missions, including aerial medical detachments, and hosted the primary cyberspace warfare installation in the United States Air Force. When they stopped following the new President’s orders, they changed the shape of how war would forever be fought in America. The cyberspace warfare division suffered the fewest number of desertions of any military unit in the entire American Armed Forces. All they wanted to do was play in cyberspace, and they had access to all the best toys to do that right where they were. So they stayed, and when the Cybernetic Wars began, they fought. Without them and everything they contributed to those wars, humanity very well may have lost.

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