[Olefin]

April 3, 2001

California

The long planned and long delayed general offensive in California to drive the Mexicans back to their border, Operation Idaho, is almost ready to launch. MilGov has managed to get several co-generation plants going again which has allowed them to put two of the three refineries in Kern County (Kern Oil & Refining and San Joaquin Refining) back into full operation over the winter, using the output from the Kern Oil Fields, which they have expended a lot of effort on since 1999 to bring back into operational status.

Conversion is almost completed on the vehicles in the MilGov forces back to run on diesel and gasoline and units have been reinforced by militia units that have been incorporated into regular forces, which have been properly trained as well. A further 2000 militia have been raised and properly equipped in order to allow MilGov to concentrate its forces on the offensive without leaving many men behind to guard depots, food storage and the like.

Depots have been thoroughly searched throughout CA for ammunition, spare parts and working vehicles and in addition to what has been obtained from Littlefield some two dozen M48A5 tanks and fifty assorted M113's have been made operational (using parts from dozens of long stored vehicles to get them operational, a process which has taken nearly a year) as well as over two dozen assorted artillery pieces, some dating back to the Korean War. Units have been reinforced with gun trucks that have been up-armored using armor plate culled from various battlefields and depots and armed with machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers as well.

Alaska

DIA agents have been working extensively to sow dissent in the units that have been cut off in Anchorage since 1998, organizing guerrilla attacks that have forced the units to use much of their remaining ammo reserve in driving them off. Many soldiers in those units are down to their last couple of magazines, with some forced to switch to captured civilian weapons. US trainers with the X Corps have now thoroughly integrated the 14th and 41st Motorized Rifle Divisions that defected to the US after being driven out of Juneau into the US force structure, with any men who did not wish to join the US Army being given a choice between POW camps or parole if they signed a loyalty oath. While the winter has been hard with the coming of spring the 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades and the 10th Infantry Division, who had spent much of the winter dispersed into small parties to make the most of what hunting and fishing could be done, re-integrating their ranks, adding local partisan and militia groups to their strength in order to finally free Anchorage from the Soviet 11th Army. While the Soviet forces have a substantial advantage in tanks (47 operational tanks versus 6) they have very limited ammunition and fuel for them.

Arkansas
With the information gathered in West Virginia the 197th is ordered to distribute long stored anti-aircraft weaponry to its units as New America’s possession of airships is now known.

Boomer

The Corpus Christi sails thru the English Channel, encountering the French ASW frigate Commandant Riviere that detects and attacks her. The destroyer is sunk by two torpedoes but not until after she manages to damage the Christi, knocking out her fire control system again. It can be repaired but the parts needed are back at Norfolk. Until she gets there she wont be able to use her weapons.