Jack of Harts

The first training theater in Pineland’s War on Terror program is a simulated Attica operational zone fifty miles across spanning the Islamic Republic and Islamic Emirate battlefront. The dominant environmental obstacle to free movement is the Republic and Emirate armies and air forces doing battle for territory. Other obstacles will include Islamic Congress of Attica and Islamic Brotherhood of Jihad forces hunting those suspected of being Pineland citizens or allies, or conducting random reign of terror missions. This training theater will host multiple simultaneous training missions for maximum realism.

On the twentieth anniversary of the attack on Pineland, the Islamic Congress of Attica officially swore in the new government of the new Islamic Emirate of Attica, headed by internationally known terrorists who had been fighting Pineland and their allies for decades. Some who were actively holding Pineland hostages. And much to the dismay of the Pineland administration, they included no women or other sexual minorities in that government. Attica quickly closed their women’s affairs department, ordered women workers to stay home, and closed girls’ schools. The Pineland administration noted that it was a missed opportunity for Attica to show their support for equal representation. Despite this, the Krasnovian Federation, the People’s Democratic Republic of Acadia, and the Pineland administration quickly recognized the new government of the Islamic Emirate of Attica.

Pineland troops continued to secure the last free airport as Pineland citizens and Attican allies tried to get through the Islamic Congress checkpoints and the airport gates. But daily bomb threats closed the gates and slowed the evacuation. Then one day a suicide bomber killed a dozen Pineland Marines and nearly two hundred refugees around the gate. The Pineland responded quickly with a missile attack and announced to the world that they had killed a car filled with people who had planned the attack. They gave no names though, making many wonder who the poor bastard really was. Later evidence showed the man to be an aid worker in Attica, and the other dead included nearly a dozen children. The Pineland administration refused to answer questions about that, but continued to pronounce that they would continue to deal with anyone who attacked Pineland.