Jack of Harts

Texas found evidence that the new President had colluded with the Mexican drug cartels and helped them attack Texas during the Drug Wars. They spread that information far and wide, so when Texas called the Convention of States to deal with the rogue federal government, McAlester Army Ammunition Base stood with them. They issued no threats. The fact that they stood with Texas said everything that needed to be said. But they were quick to realign with the reformed federal government the Convention of States restarted. They and the numerous American military bases that followed their example are one of the reasons the new federal government succeeded. Yes there were many enemies, both foreign and domestic, who wanted to see America collapse entirely. But there were many more people who wanted to see it survive and thrive. McAlester did everything it could to help that happen.

McAlester Army Ammunition Base did not officially join Texas during the Second Great Depression. Firstly, they were in Oklahoma, and no good Okie wanted to be part of Texas. Secondly, they were the United States Army’s ammunition base, and their word was their bond. Though they would not release their weapons for use against Texas. That would have violated their oath to protect their fellow Americans. And they did release their weapons when Texas required more munitions to use against the Mexican drug cartels. Their targets were not American at the time, so McAlester felt no guilt at all opening up the armories for that goal. And McAlester did indeed open all of them up. Weapons that had not seen use since the Korean War was young shipped out next to cutting edge systems dreamed up, tested, and fabricated at McAlester itself. They proved devastating in the extreme.

The McAlester Army Ammunition Base in McAlester, Oklahoma was the largest base of its type when the Second Great Depression came upon us all. It had built, stored, decommissioned, refurbished, disposed of, or otherwise dealt with heavy conventional ordinance ranging from 20mm shells to the Massive Ordinance Air Blast (also known as the Mother Of All Bombs) for over a century. They researched new weapons, trained people on existing weapons, and were generally one of the greatest practitioners of conventional destructive methods in the Western Hemisphere. McAlester was not the only base of its type, but it was certainly the single most important of its time. It is therefore not possible to overestimate how much the United States Army depended on McAlester to perform their primary mission of defending the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.