May 28, 1998
Nothing official for the day. Unofficially,
After slightly over a month in the Upper East Side marauder gang Hells Own, former Corporal Nathan Snyder instigates a fight with one of the other gang members, a tough former street fighter from Queens who seems to enjoy a higher "status" within the group. Snyder defeats the other member after a rough and tumble dustup that ends with Snyder's M9 bayonet at the other gangster's throat.
After a week of evaluation, regional military commanders have proposed several key transportation routes within the U.S. The intracoastal waterway from Norfolk to Brownsville, Texas, the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio-Tennessee-Red River and Columbia-Snake River systems, coastal shipping along the west coast and from Hampton Roads to Maine are identified as the key water routes; strategic rail lines are identified from San Diego to Kansas City, Chicago, Buffalo and Boston; New Orleans to Green Bay and Chicago to Salt Lake City, continuing on to San Francisco.
The fighting for Ansbach, Germany continues as the lead battalions of the 57th Guards Motor-Rifle Division's 170th Guards and 174th Guards Motor-Rifle Regiments, veterans of hard fighting from the war's outbreak, gain the cover of the city's buildings. One of those structures is held by an extremely frightened Specialist Randolph Cutler, who has never seen battle in his months in Germany. The corps commander commits more of his precious reserves of ammunition and fuel to the city's defenders.
To the east, the British defenders of Nurenburg find themselves under increasing pressure from the Hungarians of the 1st Corps and the German 1st Korps is under attack by the Czechoslovakian 1st Army.
US Navy technical teams establish reliable connections between the permanently moored frigate Samuel Eliot Morison and shore, enabling the ship to provide reliable power to critical infrastructure on Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf.
The South African Army destroys what turns out to be the last AWB roadblock on a rural road outside the small town of Loxton. A Ratel 90 of the Regiment Oranjerivier takes out the bunker with three high explosive rounds.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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