[Olefin]

Sorry for the long delay - between losing a job and finding one and then looking for a new place to live and living in hotels I havent had much time lately for Twilight 2000 - but finally getting back into it

here we go again

March 28, 2001

Korea

The 8th Army receives orders from MilGov to prepare to embark the newly consolidated 4th Marine Division and the 5th Marine Division along with the remnants of the 1st Marine Air Group and their aircraft for movement to CENTCOM along with the 900 “boots” being trained as new Marines. Fuel for the shipping and escorts needed for the movement of the Marines has just arrived from CENTCOM, along with aviation fuel to allow the USAF forces in Korea to begin limited operations again.

In addition, in exchange for fuel delivered to Taiwan, the 8th Army receives 40 M41D light tanks, 10 M60A3 TTS tanks and 20 V-150S armored cars as reinforcements, along with some spares to get 10 M109 SPG’s operational again. The armored cars are split between the 26th Infantry Division and the 163rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, with the M41D tanks being split evenly between the 7th, 25th, 26th and 41st Infantry and the M60 tanks going to the 2nd Infantry Division, giving those units a much needed boost of armor to increase their combat effectiveness.

Yugoslavia

After a four day standoff, including a foiled attempted assassination by CIA advisers, the 80th Infantry Division changes its allegiance to MilGov. The 76th, for now, remains loyal to CivGov.

Maryland/PA/WV

The 3rd Mechanized and the 28th Infantry link up in Greencastle, PA destroying several small marauder and New American groups encountered in the area. In western PA a supply cache is found by a scout party dispatched by the 28th along with information on six other caches in PA, WV and NY. A large force with trucks escorted by two Bradley AFV's and several armed Hummers is dispatched to retrieve the material, which includes five fully armed and operational Bradley AFV and ten FAV's.

In York the first two vehicles come off the restarted assembly line and are ready for acceptance testing, two Bradley AFV’s, the first new military armored vehicles produced in the US since late 1998.

Norfolk/Colorado Springs

An urgent conference of the Chiefs of Staff on the information gathered from New America concludes after two days. The scale of New American operations in the US is immense and General Cummings has concluded that they represent as big a threat, if not more so, than the remaining Mexican and Soviet forces on US soil. Their operations in Florida and the Ozarks are especially of concern.

General Cummings immediately orders the arrest of some 500 New American operatives identified in the papers who are in MilGov units and organizations in the US and overseas. He also orders that an attempt must be made to warn CivGov of how badly penetrated their own units are, especially the 108th Infantry Division, and of the threat that New America constitutes.

California

The incorporation of Jacques Littlefield’s private museum and armored vehicle repair facility in order to provide armor for the 6th Army begins to bear fruit as a flow of fully operational vehicles begins to arrive to various units. Besides ones that were already operational, others that were previously demilitarized have been made operational using gun barrels, breeches and other parts salvaged from other non-operational or destroyed vehicles in California.

A composite mechanized battalion joins the new 106th Infantry Division, consisting of a scout company with six assorted armored cars, a tank company of five tanks (a Conqueror Heavy tank, a Centurion Mk13 tank, two ex-Israeli Sherman tanks and a Patton M47 tank), a mechanized infantry company with a M113A1 FSV and six assorted armored personnel carriers, a self propelled artillery company with a FV433 Abbot M105 SPG, a Sexton SPG armed with a 105mm howitzer and an M37 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, an engineering platoon with three assorted recovery vehicles, and an HQ section with a Saracen Command Post vehicle and an Israeli BTR 40. The addition of the battalion brings the 99th up to 2700 men total.


The 106th is preparing fuel and supplies to join the offensive that has begun north of Los Angeles against the Mexican occupation forces.

Two other tanks from the Collection, one M60A1 and one M60A2, are being sent on tank transporters to join the 40th. The skilled techs there are working on several other non-operational tanks and vehicles of various types, using the facility which is unique on the West Coast in its ability to repair and recondition tanks and armored vehicles.

Texas

The 1st Armored enters Kingsville after effectively destroying Bandera Rodriguez. In San Antonio the Russian commander of Division Cuba is fending off constant partisan attacks as word of the advance of the 1st reaches the area. The losses the division has taken to US forces in the last few weeks have stretched their remaining forces to the breaking point.