Jack of Harts

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.

The key thing to understand about Joint Base San Antonio is that it was a sprawling complex. Fort Sam Houston was inside San Antonio, while the air bases and camps were spread out all around the city. The reservations were many miles distant from each other. Yes. Miles. Miles were the dominant measurement of the time, and in fact the Republic of Texas still uses them to this day for ground purposes. They claim that is because replacing all of their mile markers would be too expensive, but I contend it is their latent rebellious streak against changes they did not pioneer. The point is that Joint Base San Antonio is not now and was not then a large contiguous range of bases. There were entire miles of houses and factories and parks and roads between the sprawling parts of the base. Roads that they did not use to travel back and forth. Joint Base San Antonio was entirely connected via a spiderweb of underground tunnels specifically built to bring the base together and stop any foe from separating any single part of the base from support from any of the others. That would prove important in the months and years that followed.

The civil unrest in San Antonio surpassed that seen in most cities during the Second Great Depression. South Texas had far more in common with Mexico than the rest of the State, and the Mexican drug cartels were more firmly embedded than elsewhere. So when the drug king pins that history, and Dixie, would call the Drug Lords moved on Texas, they had many foot soldiers to call upon. The San Antonio police were not prepared for the onslaught of drug cartel and gang violence that spawned from that move, and vast swaths of the city and the surrounding environs soon fell into complete anarchy.