Jack of Harts

Fort Polk was home to a joint service training center, two major infantry formations, and a major support hospital when the Second Great Depression struck. The desertions that became a daily occurrence in the federal military greatly reduced their manpower, and cost them many supplies, but United States Army bases boasted impressive amounts of material in those days. They were designed to survive Acts of God and the end of Civilization as we knew it. So when New Orleans fell into chaos, the parishes of western Louisiana looked to Fort Polk for aid. Fort Polk was quick to answer, and helped the areas around them as best they could. Which was a great deal as it happened.

The Fort Sam Houston military police had a number of extremely bright and capable investigators and soldiers in their ranks. They sought to find out where the reinvigorated drug cartels were getting their supplies and intelligence from, and tracked it down to an American federal special warfare team liaising with them. They also learned who the leader of the team was, which was where the head of Fort Sam’s military police came in. He had gone through basic training together with the leader of the team, and used his knowledge of the man to plan their attack. The military police stormed the safe house at High Noon, when most of the team was asleep, and their massive leader subdued his opposite number less than a minute later. It took little time to convince the man to order his people to surrender rather than fight to the last man. Which is why there were survivors to show to the Texas government. That is how Texas learned the entirety of the team’s mission. That is why they knew where to look for other similar missions they believed the new President may have sent against other States. That proved to be important in the years that followed.

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.