I continue to severely round down the surviving population.
The power plants are damaged. The power grid is down. The irrigation system for S. California is disrupted. Travel is restricted as fuel is scarce and road intersection nuked.
No power, no water purification, no waste treatment plants, no medicines.......
Disease and famine are going to decimate the population carrying the small children and the aged or those of ill health into an early grave.
Cholera, E. Coli, Influenza, Pneumonia, MRSA, Plague, and a host of infectious diseases when medicines become rare.
The World depends on the US exports of grain in the form of corn, wheat, chickpeas, and soybeans to carry their populations. Those states are smashed by the nuclear exchange, the lack of fuel, and the fallout polluting the fields.
This further diverts people from the USN as power plant specialists are sent out to restart coal plants shuttered by the EPA. Military personnel are sent to assist local governments in decontamination of critical facilities.
This in turn deplete the population to draw upon for new recruits for Military and Governments, explaining in part why their aren't enough soldiers and sailors for combat and where personnel from the Omega Operation were absorbed.
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