What to do with the 43,000 troops and dependents from Going Home?

[ArmySGT.]

I am sure some G1 staffers will be segregating them as they arrive.

Army to hangar 1
Air Force Hanger 2
Marines Hangar 3
Navy Hangar 4
Coast Guard 5
DOD Civilians 6
All Family Members stay with your Military Member.

The will be food, facilities and Members of YOUR Branch to answer your questions.

Amtrak will get pressed into Service (it Govt) as Troop trains. Service Members may get separated fast and find themselves on the way to a new front.

[agrikk]

Oooh! Amtrak! I'd totally forgotten about it as a resource.

What a great idea. A few trains run to get the bulk of troops out of the area will be a great way to thin out the herd...

[Legbreaker]

The following threads have all dealt with this to some degree or other.
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=2408
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=2088
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=1957
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=1745

There is evidence to say the bulk of the returning soldiers were demobilised, weapons and other military equipment confiscated and the new civilians essentially just shown the door.

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

All Family Members stay with your Military Member.

So what happens with say a navy man married to a air force woman?

Trains aren't really going to be much of an option with major transportation hubs nuked (not to mention where the troops landed in the first place). They might get a few dozen, maybe a hundred miles, but that's about it before they hit a section of impassible (without major work) track. Besides, the military got tens of thousands of people back to the US, for those they've demobilised, that's about where their responsibilty to them ends.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

So what happens with say a navy man married to a air force woman?

Even IRL, that's been a big problem for a long time. Even if the military members are in the same branch of service. The military tries their best to station married service members as near as possible to each other, but officially, there are no guarantees.

Old saying in the Army: "If the Army wanted you to have a wife, they'd issue you one."

[Legbreaker]

Agreed, it's a crappy situation with the marriage almost certainly doomed to fail IRL. In T2K on the other hand, at least by 2000, it doesn't seem as much of a problem. Without planes to service and fly, the air force personnel are twiddling their thumbs, and so are naval crew. Both are likely to find themselves either demobilised (most likely) or seconded to the Army.