The Republic of Texas

by on May 20, 2020 at 12:01 am
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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.

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The Republic of Texas

by on May 19, 2020 at 12:01 am
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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.

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The Deal

by on May 18, 2020 at 12:01 am
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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.

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The Republic of Texas

by on May 17, 2020 at 12:01 am
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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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The Republic of Texas

by on May 16, 2020 at 12:01 am
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Fort Sam Houston served as the headquarters of the Fifth and Sixth United States Armies, the Army Medical Command, and a Criminal Investigation Command when the Second Great Depression began. They had the best military police, the best doctors, and commanded units deployed all over the Homeland and throughout the rest of the Americas. When Fort Sam stopped following the new President’s orders, it had a profound effect on military units throughout the Western Hemisphere. And though it suffered from the same desertions as other military bases did, it managed to maintain an operational core for all of its missions. The military police were especially effective, with most of their personnel refusing to go home, and the hulking major in charge of their special investigations group led an investigation that eventually uncovered the federal influence behind the gang, race, and drug cartel violence that washed over San Antonio. That news would have a profound effect on the future of Fort Sam and all of Texas.

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