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For Louisiana, you’ve got Camp Claiborne (Forest Hill) and Camp Livingston (Ball) located SW and NE of Alexandria. Close enough to England AFB to use the runways there, land belonged to the forest service but was the site of WW2 training camps, close to Camp Beauregard as well. LAAP has bunkers, etc, but I’d expect Camp Minden would end up as a draw for refugees fleeing Shreveport, which could jeopardize that cache.

If you’re willing to go to Mississippi, Stennis Space Center has an incredible density of federal facilities, and in T2K would host the Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant (idled in OTL 90s but likely making ICM and grenades in T2K). The Pearl River WMA abuts the facility, and together they offer a relatively large amount of land (14k acres of developed site and 125k acre buffer/training area). Stents has a dual use civ/mil airfield, a rail spur (ripped up OTL), is close to I-10 and I-59, and connects to the ICW by a lock and dam on the Pearl River. It’s not an area a lot of folks would flee to, and it’s separated from Slidell (first stop for many fleeing NOLA) by the Pearl River, which is really a large swampy delta at that point; complete with alligators and bull sharks. If you’ve seen “Act of Valor”, the hostage rescue and SWCC scenes were filmed at Stennis. There’s great hunting in the WMA and on Stennis, but be ready to imagine yourself in a setting that will make you feel like you’re in “Southern Comfort”.

If you want to introduce some difficulty I’m going to offer up three other possible locations in LA.

1. Peason Ridge Training Area. This is/was a live fire range and impact area for 5ID and Fort Polk, located on relatively high ground off LA117 between Fort Polk and Natchitoches. Circa late 90s there was very little in the way of structures, mainly a range control complex, trench complexes, and Mout Village (with a tunnel complex) and some leftover buildings from its use as “Tigerland” during Vietnam. Being a range, there was always construction going on, which is a good cover for building your storage area. Plus, the area is high enough to dig down and not hit water. Add in the fact that it’s off natural lines of drift for refugees fleeing major cities. It is relatively close to the Texas Border at Toledo Bend, so you could introduce a Texian Legion raiding party or even a larger unit operating in the Sabine valley no man’s land as an antagonist.

2. Nike Site Bellevue. Off Bodcau Dam Road NE of Shreveport/Bossier. Site buildings still extant and used by Bossier Parish while the above ground launch area is used as a range complex by Bossier City PD and other LE agencies. Still in good repair. Maybe hidden by the cover story of TIC/fallout from the Shreveport strikes (even though it was an airburst, that may give it away to knowledgeable characters). If Barksdale remains garrisoned, this is really close, but it’s northern LA, which moves to its own drum even in normal times.

3. Nike Site Stonewall. West of Shreveport off the appropriately named Missile Base Road! Not much left. However, LSU has reused the land to build a medical research facility, which has traditionally focused on animal research. No signs or anything when you drive by here, was an unmarked turn on a poorly maintained road with a guard post. Entire complex is wooded. Not a buried site (Red River Valley is too wet for that), but hidden in plain sight, easy to spread the rumor of a biowarfare experiment, etc. This is on the far side of the Red River and of the Shreveport impact area from Barksdale. Very close to the Texas line, and easy to have Texian Legion patrolling/garrisoning the area akin to the Zone Morte.

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