The Bakersfield Situation

[General Pain]

waiting for info from HQ

[headquarters]

BAKERSFIELD SECURE ZONE JULY 22nd 1100 hrs TEMPEREATURE : 18 C*

A cold wind howled around the corners of the Bakersfield bunkersComplex ,whipping clouds of the finely powdered ,grey dust into a crazy dance outside the NBC proof windows.Out in the distance a ragged line of huddled workers shuffled uncomfortably out into the RAD storm.They were heading to the ruins due north to start rebuilding yet another dilapidated structure.General Sanchez watched them with eyes red and sore from lack of sleep. A slight nausea had kept him uncomfortably awake all night.That -and the letters he had recieved from Central Command .No amount of booze had helped ,it only made hom throw up.Even the pills that finally knocked him out had made hime retch.

Rad sickness.

Damn all those years crawling around in the ruins of a city hit by nuclear devices -without an NBC suit.Damn all those missions to contaminated areas.Damn the times he had handled nuclear devices..The march across the devestated America .He motioned to the servant standing immovable by the wall at the far end of the opulent room.Soundlessly the servant approached -his eyes averted. "Yes ,general?"

"I wish to sit here.Pull that chair over for me.And fetch food!"

The servant complied silently and withdrew. Outside in the distance a flight of BV 212 and the new emergency fighters the HE 162/2000 were racing east.Probably to intercept a MilGov bombing mission on The Sierra Line.

Another long line of ragged workers were heading out into the dust storm .He watched as they disappeared into the clouds of sand- the wind lashing their filthy clothes around their scrawny bodies .

He sighed and pulled out the manilla envelope marked "CENTRAL COMMAND- ATOMIC TO SECRET" .Damn central command .Sending HIM-the great General Sanchez,conquerer of California and vanquisher of the Holnist Foe out to run errants like a commoner!!!

He looked about to make sure he was alone and stretched his arms .Tilting the letter at an angle to finally be satisfied and start reading.He would be damned before being seen with glasses.Still he thouht idea had one good trait.Planting a 100% loyal man and then let it be known he secretly wore glasses.Let it simmer and be all smiles -then have his man report back to him."Who is making fun of me ? Who gets a little chuckle ?" .Rationing would have to be stricter soon.Why not start the process by trimming the organization a bit ?
He chuckled a little and his face went dead blank again in the meztiso inscrutability had always carried.

The cover was almost pristine as all the other contingency orders in his safe.They all said the same in different words. sound off and regroup.Prepare for inspection.

He opened the letter.
It read :

To General Pablo Sanchez
From: Henry Valdimir Haussmann ,LEADER of PACGOV and the NEW DAWN MOVEMENT

SÙBJECT : MISSION OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.

General! A dangerous situation have arisen that needs your imminent attention! I am sending a team of the best people there is to counter the threat.
You are ordered to put of all prior and future engagements -indefinently.
Please consider the grave situation and complete all instructions with utmost urgency.

You are ordered to be present at the Morro Bay PacNav barracks as of now.Proceed without delay.You are to present all equipment and weaponry including personal weapons to be registered .You will then be resupplied and regrouped for R & R if necessary.New orders will be issued immidiately after .Reconstruction of our nation has commenced.
That is all - the New Dawn is coming !

[headquarters]

Bakersfield has suffered badly for being a PacGov bastion and because of its subterran citadel of concrete bunkers and tunnels.

Unknown parties have detonated one B-83 or possibly similar nuclear bomb in the 500 kiloton range, targeting the industrial area outside the designated safe zone - completely obliterating it .Dozens of unending oilwell blazes spew up a thick black sooty smoke from several locations slowly spraying a trail across the ruins of the city it self .After its brief upswing as the administrative capitol of Gen Sanchezs units ,it yet again is a desperate refugee camp were no one is spared the wants of those better fit to fight.

A bomb of greater yield has hit the citys new center or the "Safe Zone " leaving a crater 400 meters across and almost 60 meters deep.All buildings within 6 kilometers have sustained ruining damage.The first kilometer there are very few structures still sticking up over the charred heaps of rubble.

But there is more.

"Sanchez uneasily shifted in his chair.The fake window with the closed drapes and the light behind them did not cheer him up this time.He strained his ears and waited .But not a sound came .No jackhammers chopping away.No sound carried trough muffling sand that gave away any engineer teams -digging their mines and blowing up whole sections of the controlled sector as he called it .Damn Mendez and his witless cronies trying to put one over on him.But he would get iyt back .All of it .As soon as he had digged a team in deep enough to drill their tiny holes and pump that gas in there.He hoped they would suffer .But even when he did get it all back - the fucking crater would still be there .Like giant tear in a map .

General Sanchez sits well protected within his bunker , and has parts of his stockpiles of ammo and supplies.He also has troops still ,but number is uncertain as only sporadic patrols can be seen above ground.The activity above ground sometimes escalate to skirmishing with Col.Mendez troops ,a renegade officer formerly on Sanchez staff.
A bitter civil war within the horrors of the situation pr say.On the bottom of a smoking nuclear crater to precise.
(The bunker system is of the "Moscow " variety - a subway of sorts ,modified with storage and berths and purpose built security measures.The bigwigs transport themselves around in their sector on electrical dresins , others walk or use pedal propelled dresins.It has kilometers of tunnel .)

[General Pain]

he he he

[headquarters]

After the events of summer 2019,the Bakersfield station transmits its last broadcast on July 14th 2019 .

It says: " What are you guys going to do ? I am going to stick it out .I think I can get him beat by after our next battle .Anyways -SAnchez signing off."

The folowing weeks go with no radio contact..