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I'm coming to this one late, so I'll be quick. It seems to me that the nuking of the main Atlantic base has to be handled delicately. Outright destruction of the whole place is out, as many have said. Negligible destruction is out, too, because the Soviets will follow up and finish the job. There has to be enough destruction that the Soviets, who know the US will go warhead-for-warhead, don't want to put another nuke on the table. There has to be little enough destruction that parts of the place are quite usable.

I agree that the returning Europe vets are going to be passed on as quickly as possible. Cantonments on the Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf Coast, the Mississippi Watershed, and adjacent to major rivers draining into the Atlantic are good candidates. This pretty much leaves out the West Coast and the Southwest. Colorado might get some folks, though. Milgov appears to own a swath of territory running from Colorado across Oklahoma and much of Arkansas to the Father of Waters. Provided the locks and dams along the Arkansas River are in operation, the Arkansas River is navigable by barge to the vicinity of Tulsa, OK. At the very least, 49th AD could get some troops.

Would this be an appropriate place to bring up the utility of airships again?