The Republic of Texas

by on June 4, 2020 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases lost at least half of their personnel to desertion in the early months of the Second Great Depression. They were some of the highest flying and farthest reaching of the Air Forces bases at the time, but without the money to fly, most of the airmen simply lost the willingness to come in to work and moved off in search of home. Enough remained that they were able to secure the bases and rebuild in time, but the early years of the Second Great Depression found them largely without a mission. Their remaining personnel were unwilling to “turn traitor” and join Texas, but found themselves unable to follow the orders of the increasingly-erratic new President. That left them holding station in the middle of the chaos flowing through America at the time.

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The Republic of Texas

by on June 3, 2020 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Barksdale and Luke Air Force Bases in Louisiana and Texas were part of Global Strike Command when the Second Great Depression came upon us all. The massive B-52 bombers trained and flew from Barksdale, while Luke AFB trained and flew the powerful F-35 air superiority and strike fighter. The B-52s were the oldest airframes the Air Force commonly deployed at the time, while the F-35s were the newest and arguably the most powerful fighter America had ever built. The problem was that their focus was fighting other major nation states, and America’s ability to do that during the Second Great Depression was heavily reduced. The federal government had burned away the moral authority to command them, and it lacked the financial resources to support them, and so both bases fell on hard times.

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Crystal Night

by on June 2, 2020 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

A man was murdered and it enraged a nation.

Men and women went out to protest with their families, decrying the foul action.

And then the paramilitary forces that had long been pushing violent actions against those who unjustly held the wealth of the masses arrived with a plan. The police were there, but were ordered to stand back and let them do what they came to do. They walked up and down the streets, shattering windows. They threw bricks and stones at minority-owned businesses. They burned and they smashed and they looted one minority neighborhood after another. They killed people on the streets. They desecrated places of worship, graves, schools, and hospitals. They demolished homes.

Shards of broken glass littered the streets like crystals.

The cheering and jeering crowds, the looters and burners and beaters, the socialist paramilitary organization that terrorized a nation, left entire neighborhoods in ruins and flames licked the night.

What I described here did not happen last night.

It happened eight decades ago, on the night of November 9, 1938, in National Socialist Germany. They call it Kristallnacht, and it was only the beginning. Their programs, and the wars they started, would kill nearly 100 million people within a decade.

I pray that we do not let history repeat itself this time.

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The Next Wave?

by on June 1, 2020 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

First it was stay at home to be safe. Keep social distance. Stay out of large crowds. Shut down everything that isn’t essential.

What many people didn’t realize is that EVERY business is essential to the people who own. And of course the big box stores were able to stay open just fine. It was the small businesses that had to remain closed during all of this.

Now, just as they are starting to open again, riots start up and looters start gathering together in large groups to burn down the downtown areas where small businesses tend to congregate. So small businesses that were struggling after two months of being closed, are now being vandalized or completely burned down. Police are being assaulted and killed. Normal people are being attacked in their businesses and homes.

Lives are being destroyed every day.

Maybe now we will get the next wave of Winnie the Flu the media has been warning would happen if we dared loosen up our total shut downs…

Or maybe the next wave will be something completely different…

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The Republic of Texas

by on May 31, 2020 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

When Texas finally decided to go on the offensive and deal with the drug cartels on Mexican soil, Dyess Air Force Base joined them. Their B-1B Lancer bombers and C-130 Hercules transports quickly became the tip of the spear that drove into the heart of the cartels. The Lancers struck first, disrupting local defensive positions through the simple expedient of heavy explosives. “Shock and Awe” a previous generation had called it, and the Lancers rained it down with abandon. The Hercules squadrons carried entire platoons of men into the firestorms they left behind, often flanked by other Hercules modified for cybernetic warfare, direct ground attack, and numerous other missions. They overwhelmed one drug cartel after another, before moving onto the next targets as others secured the areas they had neutralized. Dyess AFB was the tip of the spear, and they struck deep into the underbelly of the drug cartels. Texas never forgot that, and when it came time to return to space, Dyess Spacebase was one of the Republic’s primary launching points.

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