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Originally Posted by castlebravo92
Per 1.0 Canon, we know there is an operational refinery in Robinson, IL under US MilGov control, a refinery in Ploesti, Romania under USSR control, and refineries in Saudi Arabia / Iran under allied / Warsaw Pack control. The French also have a refinery or refineries going.
Additionally, even though most of the refineries were wiped out, there's a lot of universities that survived with chemical engineering and petroleum engineering undergrads, graduate students, and professors. Any quasi-state level government would be highly motivated to rebuild a basic chemical and petroleum industrial base close to where there were secure oil/natgas production (for MilGov, this would principally be Oklahoma & south eastern Wyoming).
So, I would expect core MilGov cantonments in CONUS to have limited air support available, even if it's just converted civilian helicopters with machine guns or Mk19s added as door guns and light airplanes for doing recon patrols for marauders outside of controlled areas. Not the same thing as radioing for an airstrike, but still would not be completely absent.
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Speaking of that, there is a producing well/rig in
Red Star, Lone Star.; also doesn't the Pacific Northwest Sourcebook have a trickle of oil? A referee could easily wave into North Texas, OK and Louisiana and have a producing well coaxed back online.
The airframes would be the rub-seals decay, hoses fray and break down, hydraulic fluid doesn't last forever. As a referee I would probably expect most intact units to have at most a single Apache or Kiowa flying in most of CONUS plus whatever civilian aircraft/copters were still available? Those assets would be reserved for the most critical missions like targeting New America. Just a thought.