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12-14-2009, 08:06 PM
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Appendix 1--Nuclear targets in America hit in the 1962 exchanges.
Location Weapon(s) type Target type Mobile, AL 3xSS-4 MRBMs (All duds) Port facilities Admiralty Island, AK 5 mT bomb (Missed) (aimed at Juneau) Barrow, AK SS-4 MRBM (Missed, dud) DEW Line Radar HQ Tucson, AZ SS-N-4 Davis-Monthan AFB Eaker AFB, AR SS-7 SAC bomber base San Francisco, CA SS-N-4 Port facilities Los Angeles, CA SS-7 Port facilities San Diego, CA SS-N-4, SS-6 Port facilities and military bases Vandenburg AFB, CA AS-3 ALCM Satellite launching base Dorris, CA 5 mT bomb Unknown Denver, CO 2xSS-7s Industry and capital facilities Punkin Center, CO SS-7 (Overshot) (aimed at Fort Carson) Washington, DC Frog White House Key West NAS, FL 2xSS-4 MRBMs (Both duds) Area command center Homestead AFB, FL SS-4 MRBM (Dud) SAC bomber base Orlando, FL SS-6 McCoy AFB Tampa, FL SS-4 MRBM MacDill AFB Cape Canaveral, FL SS-7 (Missed) Space Center Atlanta, GA SS-7 Industry and capital facilities Honolulu, HI SS-N-4 Pacific Command HQ Near Arco, ID Atlas F Missfire Chicago, IL 2xSS-7 Industry and capital facilities Kannapolis, KS Atlas F Missfire Fort Knox, KY 1 mT bomb US gold reserves Fredrick, MD SS-N-4 (Overshot) (aimed at Washington DC) Biloxi, MS SS-N-4 Keesler AFB Saint Louis, MO SS-7 Industry Kansas City, MO AS-3 ALCM Industry Offutt AFB, NE SS-6 SAC HQ Albuquerque, NM SS-7 Kirtland AFB New York City, NY 5 mT bomb, 2xSS-N-4s Port and industrial facilities Toledo, OH 1 mT bomb Industrial and oil facilities Lima, OH 1 mT bomb Industrial and oil facilities Philadelphia, PA SS-7 Port facilities Pittsburgh, PA 1 mT bomb Industry Charleston, SC SS-7 SSBN support base Hot Springs, SD SS-7 (Overshot) (aimed at Ellsworth AFB) Fort Campbell, TN 1 mT bomb Army staging base Dallas, TX SS-7 Industry Houston, TX SS-7 Port and oil facilities San Antonio, TX SS-7 Randolph AFB Corpus Christi, TX SS-4 MRBM Port and oil facilities Salt Lake City, UT SS-7 Industry and capital facilities Norfolk, VA SS-7 Atlantic Command HQ Seattle, WA SS-N-4 Port facilities Lake Geneva, WI SS-7 (Overshot) (aimed at Chicago) FE Warren AFB, WY SS-7 SAC base Bridger Peak, WY SS-7 (Overshot) (aimed at FE Warren AFB) Jackson Hole, WY SS-7 (Overshot) (aimed at FE Warren AFB) Appendix--2 Total nuclear forces available on October 28, 1962. USA 30-- 1.4 mT Atlas D ICBMs 27-- 4 mT Atlas E ICBMs 60-- 4 mT Atlas F ICBMs 54-- 4 mT Titan I ICBMs 8-- SSBNs carrying 128-- 600 kT Polaris SLBMs 675-- B-47 Stratojets 36-- B-58 Hustlers 555-- B-52 Stratofortresses carrying some 2,920 nuclear bombs of varying yields Uncounted numbers of tactical weapons USSR 4-- 3 mT SS-6 Sapwood ICBMs 32-- 6 mT SS-7 Saddler ICBMs 2-- SSBNs carrying 6--1 mT SS-N-4 Sark SLBMs 28--SSBs carrying 57--1 mT SS-N-4 Sark SLBMs and 21--100 kT SS-1b Scub SLBMs 80--Tu-95M Bear A 15--Tu-95K-20 Bear B 24--Mi-4 Bison A 56--Mi-4-3M Bison B carrying some 392 nuclear bombs of varying yields Uncounted numbers of tactical weapons Some 500 assorted IRBMs and MRBMs in Russia In addition, in Cuba there were 36--1.2 mT SS-4 Sandal MRBMs 6--IL-28 bombers with 6 12 kT nuclear bombs 12--2 kT Frog rockets 36--12 kT Sopka cruise missiles Appendix--3 Nuclear forces as of late 1964 USA While America's once massive nuclear arsenal has been drastically reduced, it is still formidable by 1964 standards. There still remains about a half dozen operational ICBMs, mostly ones that suffered mechanical failures in 1962 and have been since repaired. In most cases, however, the warheads have been removed and shipped to Colorado Springs for safe keeping. A few Polaris missile submarines are still around, but most of their SLBMs have been expended. The Strategic Air Command suffered horrendous losses in World War III, but much to General LeMay's pride, they succeeded in pounding Russia into the Stone Age. Today, all the remaining serviceable bombers are based at Colorado Springs, along with what atomic bombs are left. As huge multi-engined bombers drink so much fuel, flying one is out of the question for the time being. There are a number of tactical nuclear weapons around, though most are securely in the hands of the US military. USSR Virtually nothing remains of Russia's nuclear arsenal now. What wasn't expended during the war has long since rusted away or been lost under the snows. All the available ICBMs were launched, all the submarines accounted for by ASW forces and nearly every one of the strategic bombers shot down or destroyed on the ground. There are probably some atomic air-dropped bombs still sitting in a hanger somewhere but there are certainly no planes capable of handling them left in flying condition. Some of smaller tactical weapons certainly survived and may even still be operational, but again, there is no value in using them. Perhaps in a decade or so Russia can think again about being a nuclear power. 
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12-14-2009, 08:07 PM
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Appendix--4 Locations of major US Army units in late 1964
1st Marine Division--Anchorage, Alaska (2025 men, 4 AFVs) ------2/1st Marine Regiment--North Carolina (370 men, 12 AFVs) 2nd Marine Division--Bialogard, Poland (3400 men, 14 AFVs) 3rd Marine Division--Iraq (4000 men, 5 AFVs) 4th Marine Division ------16th Regiment--Okinawa (300 men, 3 AFVs) ------23rd Regiment--Inchon, South Korea (700 men, 7 AFVs) 5th Marine Division--Kaesong, South Korea (2000 men, 9 AFVs) 6th Marine Division--Weijei, North Korea (600 men, 4 AFVs) 7th Marines Cavalry--Fort Meade, Maryland (450 men) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1st Infantry Division--Savannah, Georgia (5000 men) 2nd Infantry Division--Seoul, South Korea (200 men, 4 AFVs) 3rd Infantry Division--Savannah, Georgia (5000 men) 4th Infantry Division--Phoenix, Arizona (4000 men, 19 AFVs) 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized)--Colorado (10530 men, 112 AFVs) ------3/70th Armored --Camp Pendleton, California (900 men, 8 AFVs) 6th Infantry Division--Fort Ord, California (2,200 men, 8 AFVs) 7th Infantry Division--North Korea (500 men) 8th Infantry Division--Riga, Latvia (1000 men, 14 AFVs) 9th Infantry Division--Albuquerque, New Mexico (3475 men, 34 AFVs) 24th Infantry Division--Germany (2000 men, 9 AFVs) 25th Infantry Division--Northern California (6725 men, 95 AFVs) 26th Infantry Division--Boston, Massachusetts (2000 men) 28th Infantry Division ------2nd Brigade--Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1550 men, 6 AFVs) ------55th Brigade--Central Pennsylvania (865 men, 6 AFVs) ------56th Brigade--Eastern Pennsylvania (450 men) 29th Infantry Division--Virginia (3200 men, 40 AFVs) 31st Infantry Division--? 32nd Infantry Division--Destroyed in Europe 33rd Infantry Division--Southern Illinois (3625 men, 74 AFVs) 35th Infantry Division ------134th Infantry Regiment--Omaha, Nebraska (600 men) ------35th Engineer Brigade--Missouri (825 men) 36th Infantry Division--North Texas (1195 men, 8 AFVs) 37th Infantry Division--Central Ohio (1656 men, 6 AFVs) 38th Infantry Division--Indiana (5600 men, 23 AFVs) 39th Infantry Division--NE Louisiana (2000 men, 24 AFVs) 41st Infantry Division--Destroyed in Europe ------161st Infantry Regiment--Western Washington (4135 men, 40 AFVs) 42nd Infantry Division--Split, Yugoslavia (3000 men, 6 AFVs) 43rd Infantry Division--Bremerhaven, Germany (1000 men, 7 AFVs) 45th Infantry Division--Oregon (850 men, 2 AFVs) 46th Infantry Division--Destroyed in Europe 47th Infantry Division--Destroyed in Europe 49th Infantry Division--? 51st Infantry Division--Jacksonville, Florida (300 men) 63rd Division (Training)--Destroyed in Los Angeles 70th Infantry Division--Detroit, Michigan (3000 men, 5 AFVs) 75th Maneuver Area Command (Training Support)--Destroyed in Houston, Texas 76th Infantry Division--Titograd, Yugoslavia (1000 men) 77th Infantry Division--Fort Dix, New Jersey (1050 men, 11 AFVs) 78th Division (Training)--destroyed in New Jersey 79th Division (Training)--? 80th Infantry Division--Split, Yugoslavia (3000 men) 81st Infantry Division--? 85th Division (Training)--Destroyed in Chicago 84th Infantry Division--LaCrosse, Wisconsin (2500 men, 20 AFVs) 87th Maneuver Area Command (Training Support)--? 89th Infantry Division--Wichita, Kansas (4000 men, 24 AFVs) 90th Division (Training)--? 91st Division (Training)--Destroyed in San Francisco 94th Division (Training)--? 95th Division (Training)--Muskogee, Oklahoma (1160 men, 12 AFVs) 96th Division (Training)--? 98th Division (Training)--? 100th Division (Training)--Fort Smith, Arkansas (300 men, 23 AFVs) 102nd Division (Training)--? 103rd Division (Training)--? 104th Division (Training)--Portland, Oregon (4695 men, 4 AFVs) 108th Division (Training)--? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1st Armored Division--Atlanta, Georgia (8000 men, 72 AFVs) 2nd Armored Division--Destroyed in Europe 3rd Armored Division--Savannah, Georgia (2500 men) 4th Armored Division--? 27th Armored Division--Buffalo, New York (2100 men, 30 AFVs) 30th Armored Division--Tennessee (1950 men, 13 AFVs) 40th Armored Division--Bakersfield, California (6000 men, 46 AFVs) 44th Armored Division--Savannah, Georgia (2000 men) 48th Armored Division--Destroyed in Europe 49th Armored Division--Sherman, Texas (1200 men, 16 AFVs) 50th Armored Division--Kolobrzeg, Poland (2000 men, 33 AFVs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1st Cavalry Division--Korea (3000 men, 48 AFVs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 82nd Airborne Division--Iran (3000 men, 5 AFVs) 101st Airborne Division--Iran (4000 men) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 29th Infantry Brigade--Hawaii (3500 men, 20 AFVs) 193rd Infantry Brigade--Fort Amador, Panama (1000 men, 6 AFVs) 197th Infantry Brigade--Fort Benning, Georgia (1500 men, 4 AFVs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment--Savannah, Georgia (100 men) 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment--Weilheim, Germany (100 men, 1 AFV) 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment--Fulda, Germany (500 men, 4 AFVs) 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment--Cleveland, Ohio (1050 men) 108th Armored Cavalry Regiment--Middle East? 116th Armored Cavalry Regiment--Idaho (800 men, 8 AFVs) 150th Armored Cavalry Regiment--Destroyed in Europe 163rd Armored Cavalry Regiment--South Korea (300 men, 4 AFVs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 111th Military Police Brigade--Fort Huachuca, Arizona (635 men) 221st Military Police Brigade--Stockton, California (400 men, 5 AFV) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 59th Ordinance Brigade--Huntsville, Alabama (1060 men, 15 AFVs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cadet Brigade--Colorado Springs, Colorado (800 men, 20 AFVs) School Brigade--Hays, Kansas (550 men, 12 AFVs) "First Cavalry Division"--Texas (425 men)
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12-14-2009, 08:16 PM
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SECTION ONE: The Pacific Coast (Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California)
ALASKA 1) NUCLEAR TARGETS Date----Type----Target---Notes 10/29/62---Aerial Bomb---Admiralty Island 10/29/62---SS-4---Barrow---Dud 2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES 1st Marine Division--Anchorage (2000 men, 4 AFVs) ---315th Marine Force Recon Company--Fort Wainwright (25 men) 2nd Battalion/9th Infantry Regiment--North Slope area (100 men) 297th Infantry Regiment--Juneau (600 men, 6 AFVs) Total Russian forces in Mat-Su enclave/Valdez area (245 men) 6th Guards Air Assault Division--Alaska Peninsula (150 men) 14th Motorized Rifle Division--Petersburg (150 men) 41st Motorized Rifle Division--Angoon (100 men, 1 AFV) 76th Tank Division--Prince of Wales Island (250 men, 3 AFVs) 2301st Special Air Landing Brigade--Nome (217 men) 3) ANCHORAGE War, chaos and invasion: The state's largest city was occupied by the Russians in early 1963, then changed hands several times during the American counterattack in late 1963 before finally being retaken for good in early 1964. The first Russian soldier stepped foot on American soil on January 3rd, 1963. As it became clear that the Russians were going to land in Alaska, despite the US military's efforts, the population of Anchorage panicked and civil control was lost. Nearly 75,000 people poured out of the city, many headed south on the Seward Highway. A massive traffic accident near Whittier caused a traffic jam that stretched all the way back into Anchorage, further panicking the civilians. During the first hours of the Russian invasion, the Mayor ordered the thirteen civilian airliners still at the Anchorage International Airport fuelled, taxied onto the runways and terminal approaches, and set ablaze to deny the enemy the use of the airfield. He also decided to dynamite the dam across the Campbell Creek in downtown Anchorage to deny its crossing to the Russians. In retrospect, he went too far, and these two acts only served to further impede the flow of civilians out of the city. The city was further cut off when the adventurous Soviet Romeo class submarine S-34 crept into Cook Inlet and sank two large car ferries in shallow water, blocking access out by sea. With virtually no way out of the city, and whipped into a frenzy by fear, the citizens of Anchorage turned on themselves in an orgy of bloodletting and destruction. By the time the Russians did arrive in the city, much of it was in flames. Anchorage now: Severely damaged by riots and conventional fighting, the city is a ruin today. About 10,000 civilians still live in and around Anchorage, with the majority of them involved in farming or scavenging. The Loopers: During the Russian occupation there sprang up a religious sect of Fundamentalist Christians with a rather Puritan strain known as the "Loopers", who offered passive resistance to the Russians. Their leader, the True Pastor Philip McGrath, an authoritarian ex-military person, has kept his tightly-knit community together with an iron hand and they have survived. After the US military returned and the Russians evacuated to the more fertile areas to the east, the Loopers attempted to take control of the Anchorage bowl from the rest of the riffraff and thugs that the Russians left behind. In a low-grade war of attrition, the Loopers are still working towards that, and now control a large area of the city. Their territory encompasses the two military bases (Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base), Russian Jack Spring Park, the University of Alaska-Anchorage campus, the length of Ship Creek, the railroad yards, and Government Hill. Local actions still occur between the Loopers, local gangs, hold-out Russians and US Marines as they all try to secure the limited food growing areas. The Prevoites: The other large competing power in Anchorage is the "Prevoites", a Baptist militant group formed in late 1963 by Jerry Prevo. They have the backing of several of the leaders of the 1st Marine Division and have begun to reclaim sections of the western part of the city with Marine support. This has brought them the ire of the Loopers and conflict is brewing. The US Marine Corps: Anchorage is currently home to the US 1st Marine Division (2,000 troops, and four M50 Ontos tank destroyers). On paper this unit seems powerful, but they pretty much keep to their cantonments in the southern part of the city and are more worried about eating than anything. This division was in fierce combat in Korea and northern China until late 1963, when it was pulled out and sent to Alaska. This was not what the marines had in mind when they left the Far East, they all wanted to go back home at that point, and few are happy to be here. The marines were able to recapture Anchorage more than anything else because the Russians were ready to leave it anyway. The rigors of life in Alaska have broken the division into a number of local defensive militias and petty dictatorships. The unit has effectively ceased to exist as a federal division and growing number of its strength now consists of local civilian recruits. A small number of its veterans are former Russian soldiers who have been taken in because of their skills. 4) SOUTHERN ALASKA The densely forested Kenai Peninsula lies to the south of Anchorage. The oil storage and shipping facilities at the southern terminus of the Alaska Pipeline at the Cook Inlet and along the Valdez Bay were rendered unusable during the Soviet invasion of Alaska and are still rusting today. Hold-outs: The small Alaska native towns of Sand Point, King Cove and Cold Bay on the tip of the Alaska Peninsula are all controlled by several random companies of the Soviet 6th Guards Air Assault Division (about 150 total men) which landed here about a year and a half ago. Their heaviest weapons are machine guns. Seward: Flattened by the Russians during the invasion, Seward attracts little attention from the unsavory elements that still pass through the area. However, hidden and protected by switchback roads that teeter over deep ravines is an old ski lodge built into the overhanging mountainside. It is now occupied by four families who survive by remaining unseen. They loot Seward's remains at night, farm small gardens, and tend a handful of domesticated animals. Whittier: Home to the huge Liberty lumber and paper complex, with ovens, sawmills, and all manner of auxiliary industries around the town. A cement factory supported local construction and two coal-fired power plants were in operation, one dedicated just to the logging and processing operations. Russia had sparse air assets by the time Whittier became a viable target, so only the power plants received detailed attention, while the vast Liberty complex was only slightly damaged by misguided ordnance. With their power source heavily damaged, the plants and mills ground to a halt. Casualties from the bombings were relatively light, but disease and malnutrition took its toll, especially among the very young and old. Whittier was occupied by a Soviet engineer company for a short time in March 1963, but they only stayed a few weeks before pulling out for safer areas. By 1964, only 5,000 civilians live within a fifteen mile radius of Whittier. While most of them are local skilled workers from the paper industries, most now work as farmers in the local fields. Kodiak: Offshore is Kodiak Island, and the town of Kodiak today is a trading center known for its bars and overactive Kodiak Militia (KOM). There is an airfield here with a number of rusting floatplanes waiting for fuel and repairs. An antique arms museum in Fort Abercrombie State Park was emptied by the locals, and some of the operational long rifles now are militia weapons. The old fortress now houses some 400 KOM militiamen. Five thousand civilians live in and around the Kodiak, their efforts making the town self-sufficient in most daily needs. The town's control extends down to the village of Old Harbor, now abandoned save for 50 militiamen. The rest of the island is a no-man's-land which is mostly barren of human life. Aleutian Chain: The Aleutian chain is mostly abandoned, having been hastily evacuated ahead of the Russian invasion. Adak Island Naval Station was a major US naval base, boasting underground submarine pens and complexes, an airfield and a heliport, and also extensive coastal and antiaircraft batteries. The base was the target of repeated Russian air and conventional ballistic missile strikes during the early stages of World War III. While it survived the attack, the base was abandoned after the Russians landed on the mainland. The Americans booby trapped everything they couldn't take with them, making the island an extremely unattractive place to go souvenir hunting. The once bustling airfield is dark and disused with a few piles of wreckage that were once aircraft and helicopters. At the old refueling strip at Cold Bay there is just one soldier left alive. Left behind when the strip was evacuated in 1963, this sad old man still patrols the island and keeps the flames going. The Mat-su enclave: In late 1963, the Russians evacuating from Anchorage ahead of the US counterattack set up an enclave in the Matanuska Glacier State Recreation Site to the east of the city, centering on the port town of Valdez. Valdez was occupied very early in the invasion by the Russians, too quickly to be really damaged. The subsequent bombing by the US Air Force also caused some damage, but the worst destruction was caused by the civilian population panicking when the Russians stormed into the town. The town's courthouse is now the headquarters of the Russian Alaskan Landing Command with nominal control over all Russian forces in North America. Russian power in the Mat-su enclave includes the combined remnants of numerous units, many reduced to just handfuls of soldiers, and any official pre-war unit designations are virtually meaningless. Nonetheless, the units represented here include the 1st Arctic Mechanized Brigade (20 men), the 2nd Arctic Mechanized Brigade (25 men), the 1st Naval Infantry Brigade (75 men), the 7th Motorized Rifle Division (75 men), the 113th Motorized Rifle Division (50 men), and some remnants of the HQ staff of the 18th Hovercraft Transport Regiment. They are mostly still heavily armed and also have a few surviving BTR-60s. Without support from home, however, the Russian invaders still in Alaska are slowly being assimilated into the local population to survive. The Russian leadership in Valdez is mixed on their opinion of what to do in the coming spring. Some of the men are wanting to "switch sides" and are probably looking to find a place to settle down. Others are steadfastly loyal to Mother Russia and either want to get home, or want to accomplish what they were sent there to do and drive on to Seattle. The possibility of internal revolt in the invader's camp is strong and the spring thaw will be very telling. Perhaps 2,000 civilians (farmers, fishermen and their families) live in the Mat-Su valley with the Russians. Clustered in small farms of three or four families each, they raise grain and vegetables or harvest fish from the lakes and rivers. They are apolitical and are merely trying to survive these hard times, even if it means feeding the Russians from time to time. 5) LOWER ALASKA The chain of islands and strip of land along the coast of British Columbia, including the former capital of Juneau, were the sight of some fierce conventional action during the war. Today, remnants of the aborted Russian invasion force that was stopped north of Vancouver is still rumbling around the area south of Juneau. The Alexander Archipelago has also been the scene of numerous marauder attacks. Tenakee Springs, for example, was burnt to the ground just this year by the pirate band the "Great Humongous' Sea Rovers." Juneau: A medium-range Tu-16 Badger carrying an atomic payload meant for Juneau was intercepted over the North Pacific by US Navy fighters on October 29, 1962. On fire and doomed, the bomber dropped its 5 megaton bomb on Admiralty Island, sparing the city. The Soviet mechanized ground offensive, however, came through here in early 1963 and caused enough destruction even without any nukes. The Russians captured the city, but abandoned it soon after, choosing instead to march south on Vancouver and Seattle. Although severely damaged by street fighting in 1963 (destroying a third of the city), Juneau now serves as the center of what is left of the Alaskan state government, which actually controls little beyond the valley around the city. The current population of the city and surrounding foothills numbers roughly 25,000. Juneau is prospering these days and lacks the usual filth associated with surviving towns of the postwar era. Except for the blockhouses at entrance points, the city does not sport the fortifications and mobs of armed troops which sprawl everywhere else. While Juneau is an "open city", outsiders will be noticed, politely questioned by the militia, and subjected to a moderate degree of scrutiny and interrogation. Operating industries include a large steel mill and a dozen factories that were only lightly damaged during the war. However, shortages of everything prevent any sort of decent production levels and most of the skilled workers' time is spent keeping the machines from falling apart rather than manufacturing or repairing anything new. Juneau was the transportation hub of lower Alaska, with a single-track, standard-gauge railroad (built in 1848) that ran from Juneau north to Anchorage, then south through Vancouver all the way to Seattle. The majority of rolling stock and engines were obliterated during the Soviet march through the area and those remaining are slowly rusting in various towns in the region, unable to move on the shattered lines. Though no engines remain, some rolling stock has been converted into horse-drawn vehicles to form a trolley of sorts to run along the line in sections. The road system and most of the bridges in the city remain in excellent shape (for 1964), though their primary traffic is horse-drawn due to a lack of gasoline for civilian autos. The city is mostly self-sufficient in food and energy, and have even taken in numerous Soviet refugees from the invasion force who wished to defect. The city garrison consists of 800 militiamen (serving part time and spending most of their time engaged in reconstruction work or guarding warehouses and silos) and the 297th Infantry Regiment. Previously an Alaska National Guard regiment, this unit is made up of mostly Alaska Natives and is known for their prowess in battle. The 297th now has 600 men and six M47 tanks, as well as eight towed 155mm howitzers, though with little ammunition either the tanks or the artillery. Recently, the militia has been raiding nearby British Columbian towns, stealing equipment and food. The harbor is still active with trade, though apart from 30 small coastal sailboats (all under 75 tons) only five large (250 to 400-ton) merchant steamers are available to the city. These are all jury-rigged coal-fired and rigged with at least one sail mast. A US Navy destroyer, torpedoed early in the war, is still beached south of the docks and there is talk of trying to refloat her next spring. Norstad Field is now jammed with aircraft flown here from all over the region, though only a few are still operational. These include a few fighters and delta-wing interceptors, and even fewer bombers, old B-47 Stratojets, a tangle of civilian airplanes, small amphibians, light-planes, old prop-jet transports and airliners. The only craft that still fly on any regular basis are a single helicopter and a Boeing 707 airliner. The Boeing, formerly of Great Alaskan Airlines, now runs shuttle service to Seattle with USAF stars painted on the wings and fuselage. Sitka: Sitka was originally a fishing village converted to a luxury "hotel community" in the 1950s. Throughout the war it was held in turn by the US Army, refugees from Juneau, marauders and Russians. The last group, who had been using the historic Baranof Castle as a hospital and rear-area headquarters, were massacred in late 1963 by guerrillas. History has come full circle now, and Sitka is once again a home to fishermen. Some 300 live in the town, along with their families. Each night their two dozen sailboats are anchored in the bay, just off the sandy beaches. The Baranof Castle is now guarded only by a militia unit. Though still picturesque from a distance with its hewn-log roofs and old gray stone, Sitka now exists in a medievalesque squalor of chimney smoke, trash and stench. Angoon: The Russian 41st Motorized Rifle Division (100 men and one tank) is wintering in the small Alaska Native community of Angoon. This unit, realizing that they were deep in enemy territory, ill-prepared for the type of fighting, and realizing that further pushes by the Americans would probably wipe them out, they have recently defected and have expressed their desire to join the American forces in the area. They are currently making offers to the Juneau government to trade their experience and weaponry for citizenship in the city. Prince of Wales Island: The loyal Russian 76th Tank Division (250 men and three tanks) has relocated to the southern part of Prince of Wales Island for the winter, utilizing several small Alaska Native communities as cantonments. The towns currently under Russian influence are Hydeburg, Craig, Klawock, Thorne Bay, and Kasaan. Petersburg: This large town at the head of Lynn Canal was overrun by Russian forces after fierce fighting and the native Aleuts and Americans were driven out. The loyal 14th Motorized Rifle Division (150 men along with a few dozen irregular militia and partisans) is in winter cantonment here. The partisans come from the "Red Maple" organization, a militant arm of the Canadian Communist Party who trekked up here to join their "comrades". Though there are strong picket posts of Russian troops all around Petersburg, the town has no walls or large fortifications as it is too spread out. Ketchikan: During the Russian invasion in early 1963, the local naval base and airfield were destroyed by the Russian 41st Motorized Rifle Division. Much of the town was comprised of ancient buildings, already weakened by a 1949 earthquake, and they crumbled when the token resistance to the Russian landing was crushed. Most of the population of 8,000 perished in the sudden attack. The Russians only stayed here a few days, before pulling out and heading south on their disastrous march on Vancouver. Currently, the only life in the area is a small militia garrison in an old lighthouse overlooking the bay. The garrison is armed with Russian small arms, acquired when some Russian units retreated back to this area and dissolved in late 1963. Other mementos of the collapse are the hulks of army vehicles on the roadsides and several vessels sunk in the harbor, visible from the bay's heights. Further out toward the straits where the fishing is better, there is a Russian merchantman capsized on the north side of the channel, one of the landing ships that was sunk by Canadian Air Force bombers during the landing. Laying in only five fathoms of water, it's hull acts as an artificial island. The locals have already cut holes in the plating and salvaged what they can. 6) THE GREAT WHITE NORTH The northern and central parts of the state are great stretches of evergreen forests, snow and ice, sprinkled with native Inuit settlements and Kodiak bears. The vast forests have not yet been hunted to near-depletion like those of the lower 48, and many small towns still survive. The Alaska Pipeline and most of the oil storage facilities along the North Slope were damaged during the Russian invasion of Alaska, and are currently inoperable, even though they were not targets of nuclear bombs. As the Russians invaded, the overtaxed US military pulled out of the North Slope, leaving the civilians to fend for themselves. While they have retaken Anchorage, the Americans have still not made any moves towards the isolated Russians in the north of the state. The only American forces in the area are the remains of the all-Eskimo Alaskan National Guard 2nd Battalion/9th Infantry Regiment (100 men), currently in the North Slope trying to survive the winter. Fairbanks: Both the small power plant was located to the west of the town and the major airport/airfield to the southwest were targets of Russian air strikes during the invasion and all both destroyed. Fires burned for months afterward, and the local casualty rate ran close to 30%. With the loss of electrical power, the US military evacuated the area and headed south to Anchorage and east into British Columbia. Fairbanks is now unpopulated, but scavengers still comb the rubble for useful equipment and material. Fort Wainwright Military Reservation: This abandoned, picked over and looted military reservation is now home of the 315th Marine Force Recon Company. The 315th is the remains of the 1st Marine Division's MFR unit that merged with a mangled Alaskan National Guard recon platoon two months ago. In addition to the three NCOs and fifteen troopers of the NG unit, there are seven Marines and three Inuit guides in the company. The 315th is now doing recon work for the division staff, looking for usable salvage and watching for Russian incursions. Fort Greely Military Reservation: Now abandoned, this installation was incinerated with air/fuel munitions by the Russian Air Force early in the invasion. Bits and pieces of salvage can still be picked up from these ruins, provided one is wary of dogs and the occasional marauder. Barrow: On October 29, 1962, a 1.2 megaton SS-4 MRBM was fired from a Russian base on the Kamchatka Peninsula at the DEW line HQ at Barrow. It both missed badly and was a dud that shattered on impact, forty miles to the west along the coast, leaving a just a small crater and some twisted metal. Two days later, a damaged B-52 returning from a raid on Russia crash landed here. The townspeople, already enraged by the war, killed the crew in horrible ways, leaving only the plane's navigator alive. This airman proved that he could make explosives and has been kept prisoner since then, although he is basically a member of the community by 1964. The current population of 800 civilians is busy salvaging machines and parts from the local oil refineries, none of which are operational. The DEW line: Few of the individual Distant Early Warning stations, spread about the state, were hit by any weapons. Once the exchanges were over, the remaining Air Force personnel based at the stations evacuated south. Those that made the trek to Barrow were most likely killed by the locals. The other crews who ended up in Fairbanks or Anchorage, were soon given rifles and sent to defend the lines against the Russian invasion and were scattered. Today, the DEW line stations sit empty, full of expensive radar and communications equipment that would be a boon to anyone who want to go to the effort to salvage them. 7) SEWARD PENINSULA This region is currently home to a band of Communist renegades. Due to the poor condition of the roads and general lack of inhabitants in the area, this area is infrequently traveled and is perfect for a band of marauders. Forty of them call the tundra home and live in relative splendor on what they loot from ruins along the roads. Typical of the bands that plague the mountains like gnats, these people are vicious but less than competent. Some were former Russian Cossack soldiers, but most are displaced refugees. The marauders are heavily armed with a bizarre collection of small arms, each walks around festooned with pistols, grenades, crossbows and pairs of rifles or light machineguns. This habit had caused some casualties in the past, through accidents and duels. These marauders have 30 horses, mules and donkeys, as well as three civilian trucks converted to run on alcohol. They also have five stills, half a dozen captives from a merchant caravan they ambushed some time ago, and a nice 50/500km radio that they use to spout Communist propaganda to anyone listening. Point Hope: Typical of the villages on the Arctic coast where all the white people left after the war, leaving only the native Inuits to revert to their old ways, including whaling. Point Hope hosts some 3,000 residents, mostly fishermen, ship-builders and their families. Nome: The only area of stability in the region is now the town of Nome, which is occupied by the Russian 2301st Special Air Landing Brigade (217 men). Equipment includes one towed 23mm anti-aircraft gun, one BTR-50 APC, one BTR-152 halftrack, and one 5 ton truck. The unit has relied extensively on skis and dog sleds for perimeter patrols, saving what fuel they have for emergencies. The Russians also have two captured aircraft at the small airport; an ancient bush Piper seaplane and a Fokker corporate turboprop owned by Shell Oil that was there refueling when the Soviets landed. Nome was home to oilfields, including wells, a pipeline, storage tanks, and a small power plant. All were targets of conventional air strikes ahead of the Soviet landing and were largely destroyed. The remaining civilian population is surly and only half-subdued. New America even had a cell operating in Nome, but it was found out by the Russians and destroyed in late 1963, though scattered sympathizers still roam the mountains. The leadership of the brigade has grand plans for their corner of North America and have even proclaimed the annexation of all of Alaska and named it the "Socialist Soviet Republic of Bering
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12-14-2009, 08:20 PM
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This tropical island paradise is anything but in 1964, but it shows signs of a faster recovery than most other states due to its isolation. 1) NUCLEAR TARGETS Date----Type----Target---Notes 10/31/62 SS-N-4 Honolulu 2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES As noted below, the bulk of the US military on Oahu was evacuated to the mainland, leaving only the Hawaii National Guard to maintain order in the state. 29th Infantry Brigade--Hawaii (3000 men, 16 AFVs) ---443rd Oahu Battalion--Pearl Harbor (500 men, 4 AFVs) 3) THE ISLANDS Oahu nuked: The main island of Oahu was touched by the horrors of atomic war when the Pacific Command Headquarters at Fort DeRussy Military Reservation in downtown Honolulu was nuked by a 1 megaton SS-N-4 SLBM ground burst. The hit came on October 31, 1962, one of the last of the war, fired by the Russian Golf I class ballistic missile submarine B-113. From the Kamehameha Highway all the way to Diamond Head, the city is flattened and charred and everything south of Highway 1 is tangled rubble and burnt-out buildings. Melted skyscrapers lean over a wide fused sheet of glass where the sandy beaches used to be. The international airport is a gutted shell, littered with the burnt skeletons of airliners. Oahu since: In the chaos following the nuking of Honolulu, a large group of the mostly-native Hawaiian National Guard on Oahu rebelled and tried to take over. In the end, they just sparked a civil war of sorts with the mainly off-island military forces stationed here (principally the 25th Infantry Division). By January 1, 1963, the rebellion was brutally crushed and the US military was firmly back in control. For the next year or so, Hawaii served as a staging point for the war in China and Korea until the fighting died out. In the spring of 1963, as food and fuel dwindled, it was decided that to keep valuable personnel and equipment out on an island far away from anything was a waste of resources. As such, the majority of the remaining men and material here were freighted back to the mainland or to Japan and Korea, leaving only some token forces behind. The 25th ID, the largest unit in the islands, was shipped to San Francisco to form the core of MilGov's west coast operations (see that city). Left behind was the Hawaiian National Guard 29th Infantry Brigade, who assumed control of the state's functions. Pearl Harbor: While Pearl Harbor Naval Base and environs are technically still open, it has been looted extensively by locals since the Navy pulled out. The token garrison contingent is the 443rd Oahu Battalion with 500 men, a few APCs and four old M41 Walker Bulldog tanks. This battalion was formed by volunteers from the 25th ID and US Navy personnel who wanted to stay in Hawaii and is subornate to the 29th Infantry Brigade HQ at Hilo. They are occasionally menaced by members of the local Tau Fin tribe and largely keep to the base. There are a few operational American warships and merchantmen still in Pearl Harbor, officially there to keep an eye on things, but really lacking fuel to go anywhere else. These include the John C. Butler class DE-532 Tweedy, the stubby, rust-covered amphibious ship LST-1164 Walworth County, three LCMs and three PT boats. The Big Island: The remaining local power in the chain is on the big Island of Hawaii, with the new state capitol at Hilo. The 29th Infantry Brigade (HI NG) with 3,000 men, including 1,000 local levies, and sixteen M48A2 Patton tanks, keeps the trains running on time in the city. They also have two aging DC-3 cargo planes that flew out here from Los Angeles in 1962 that they use to keep tabs on the rest of the islands. Mostly loyal to the military government in Colorado Springs but still suspect after the rebellion of 1962, the 29th IB pretty much serves as the de facto government of Hawaii. Other islands: Despite Hilo's efforts, the other islands in the chain are not under any centralized control and often ruled by various criminal factions. Many natives have reverted back to tribal customs and turned to slave-ownership and banditry, both ancient Hawaiian trades. Kauai: Ruled by a man named John Dodge. He has about 200 armed men and many slaves working a large cattle ranch. His prize is a 41-foot long sail sloop called the Short But Happy, which he keeps as an escape option. Molokai: Held by a gang led by a former US military lieutenant. In 1962, he was caught selling secrets to Russia, but before he could be sentenced the war erupted and he escaped when Honolulu was nuked. At the one airport, there are numerous dilapidated planes all with flat tires and other problems but mostly repairable. The hangers are unused and the control tower is a windowless shell. It is here that the gang is staking it's future on as it tries to repair some of the planes to possibly get back to the mainland. Lanai: In Lanai City there is a largish refugee population with all the problems associated with that. The three or four hundred survivors here are suffering from bandits, pirates, adventurers and the like. Maui: Maui is a haven for thugs and slavers, with the West Maui Forest Reserve especially infested. Midway: This former strategic island is now the private domain of a man named Roger Cavanaugh. The harbor is mostly empty, with just a few rusty fishing craft here, including a sailboat that he uses to trade with other islands.
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12-14-2009, 08:26 PM
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WASHINGTON
1) NUCLEAR TARGETS Date----Type----Target---Notes 10/28/62 SS-N-4 Seattle 2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES 41st Infantry Division ---2nd Battalion/161st Infantry Regiment--Seattle area (4000 men, 40 AFVs) ------Able Company--Bellingham (110 men) ---------1st Alternative Cavalry Platoon--Bellingham (25 men) ---------Platoon 3 (Rogues)--Richland (100 men) 31st Provisional Marine Battalion--Bremerton (500 men) 3) PUGET SOUND AREA Stretching from the Seattle metroplex south and west to the state capital at Olympia, the Puget Sound area was and still is the economic hub of Washington and the Pacific Northwest. This area has suffered greatly but is also seen by most as the hope of the future. The war: Late in the night of October 28, 1962, the Russian Golf I class ballistic missile submarine B-109 snuck past ASW screens and fired her two nuclear missiles at the city. The first SS-N-4 was intercepted by a Nike guided missile over Vancouver Island and destroyed. This, incidentally, was one of the extremely rare occasions that the Nike ABM system actually worked as advertised. The second Russian missile made it through to the city, despite being chased all the way there by several more Nikes. The 1 megaton warhead, aimed at the port facilities, missed a little and high-air burst above Lake Sammamish in the eastern suburb of Bellevue. Eastern Seattle along Lake Washington was badly damaged by the blast and firestorms, with bricks and mortar from blown-down buildings spilling over into the lake. The city today: Much of the infrastructure of western and southern Seattle is still intact and it is in these areas that the bulk of the activity and population still exist. The city today is run today by military-supported granola collectivists who are busy collectivizing the city. Unfortunately, while they have the right idea at heart, they are just as greedy as the bourgeois capitalists that they claim they are seeking to replace. They are beginning an ambitious project to harvest kelp in Puget Sound to feed a growing population. Other parts of the city are not as organized. Large areas of the northern part of the city, especially in the Lake Forest Park area, have been abandoned to scavengers and roving packs of feral canines. In the downtown Seattle area, the 74-acre Seattle Center was abandoned, most of the buildings extensively damaged by the elements and neglect. In the middle of the Center the Space Needle, pride of the city, is rusting and tilting several degrees to the west, having been damaged by the pressure wave. No one lives in Bellevue today and the area is still considered off limits. Not even rats live in the rubble zone and nature is fast reclaiming the ruins. The Army in Seattle: The MilGov forces in the Seattle area consist of the main bulk of the Washington National Guard 2nd Battalion/161st Infantry Regiment of the 41st Infantry Division. The 41st ID, with units in both Washington and Oregon, was mobilized in late 1962 and a number of components were trucked to ports along the coast and shipped to Europe. This battalion was not shipped off with its parent division in 1963 due to the horrible condition of the state at the time and the need to secure the Seattle area's vital ports and airfields to conduct the war in the Far East. At the same time, the 4th Infantry Division was also in the city, quartered at Fort Lewis. This division was moved at great expense to Utah in 1963, leaving the Washington National Guard to care for the city, causing much complaint with the men who wanted to go home. The 2/161st Infantry is now part of the reconstituted 5th Army (headquartered in San Jose, California), and the northernmost unit of that Army. Total strength is about 4,000 troops, which includes numerous local recruits, large numbers of soldiers left behind when the 4th Infantry Division moved out, and former Air Force and Navy personnel. Equipment includes forty tanks and twenty APCs, as well as numerous trucks and jeeps, many of which are armed, or can be armed, with machineguns to provide internal security. The 2/161st Infantry has devoted itself to providing security to the region, as well as salvaging high-tech equipment from the various laboratories in the Seattle area. They also run frequent convoys north to Bellingham and south to the Portland-area Army enclaves and provide security on the roads between the two. The 2/161st Infantry has had it's troubles, however, many of them internal. Late last year the battalion's commander severed ties with MilGov, held a purge of uncooperative officers, and declared himself to be the "Proconsul of the Northwest". Within a few weeks, however, when it became obvious that the self-proclaimed "Proconsul" had gone quite mad, the battalion's command staff personnel overthrew him, elected a new CO and repledged loyalty to MilGov. 5th Army HQ has not forgotten this incident and still keeps a wary eye on the unit. The Navy in Seattle: Seattle is now home to a displaced force of US Navy ships, most of them remnants of the Seventh Fleet, and all docked at Bremerton. Operational vessels include: George Washington class ballistic missile submarine SSBN-602 Abraham Lincoln Nautilus class attack submarine SSN-571 Nautilus Skate class attack submarine SSN-584 Seadragon Forrest Sherman class destroyer DD-933 Barry John C. Butler class escort DE-359 Woodson One minesweeper Five LCMs Eight PT boats All these vessels are handicapped by a scarcity of fuel and regular maintenance, but occasionally one will make the long trip south to the San Francisco area to exchange vital supplies. The Barry still goes to sea on a restricted basis, and has often patrolled Western British Columbia at the request of the Canadian Pacific Command to deal with captured coastal shipping being used by the Russians (her 5" guns rip up such ships very easily). As well, the Nautilus has gone on missions to recover friendly and enemy equipment and personnel in the Russian Far East and other locations. The 31st Provisional Marine Battalion (500 men) provides security to the Bremerton naval base and the area is relatively safe with the marines patrolling the streets even at night. The Navy has placed a large number of mines outside the shipping lanes into the port of Seattle, to keep any remaining Russian ships or subs out of the area. The Air Force in Seattle: The enclave also has about thirty operational airplanes, all based at McChord Air Force Base in the southern suburb of Tacoma. These assets include three former Canadian Air Force planes (two fighters and an old B-17G bomber), four F-4 Phantom II jet fighters, a few private jets, a C-119 Flying Boxcar transport, an old T-6 trainer, and a dozen CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The 62nd Troop Carrier Wing was based at McChord before the war, and many of the staff and support personnel are still here helping to keep the planes flying. A number of pilots have been gathered, some Army, a lot of Air Force and even a few Marines. Until just this summer, the T-6 pilot was a former US Navy pilot from VMF-611 from the carrier Forrestal. As well, NAS Whidbey Island still operates a few A-1 Skyraiders, which are the remains of two PACFLT replacement training squadrons, who were pressed into flying combat missions against the Russian invasion Alaska and British Columbia. The bad side: Beneath this veneer of civilization there is an undercurrent of violence in Seattle and there are several large groups of armed people who oppose the way things are run. The largest gang is called the "Sharks" and they are in tacit control of a large part of the city east of I-5 and south of Lake Union. They have about 325 effectives and are based out of the old Seattle Arboretum. The northeastern Seattle suburbs are home to the "Razorbacks" marauder gang, composed of ex-convicts who broke out of the Matsqui Penitentiary near Vancouver and thugs recruited since they came to Seattle. Tom "Fang" Strakes is the maniacal leader and those in his inner circle are all fellow escaped cons, while most of the lower ranking members are recent additions. The Razorbacks have adopted as their standard a blood-soaked, inverted British Columbia provincial flag as a symbol of their incarceration by the Canadian government. Including their leaders, the gang boasts some 130 members and are armed with a wide assortment of civilian and police weapons (sporting rifles, shotguns, revolvers, a few assault rifles and automatic pistols). A few members (Fang among them) have police-issue body armor. Most wear civilian clothes, although some take a sick pride in still wearing their old prison uniforms. Not all the trouble in Seattle is from gangs of civilians, however. Since last week, a food warehouse in Tacoma is currently under the control of a platoon of Army soldiers with half-a-dozen AFVs who have mutinied from Fort Lewis. Bellingham: Large tracts of Bellingham were razed during the refugee migrations in late 1962 and early 1963. The northern parts of the town, including the airport, were spared because the citizens there fought the refugees to a standstill more than once in running battles. They were eventually saved by the arrival of a US Army unit from Seattle. Now, about 1,000 people live in Bellingham's eastern quarter in and around the Army's cantonment. They conduct trade with other coastal towns and with the few traveling merchants brave enough to wander the Seattle-to-Vancouver route. Bellingham's northern reaches are home to the detached Able Company of the 2/161st Infantry Regiment from Seattle (110 men). This unit is detailed to watch for any southern moves by the scattered Russian Army forces in British Columbia and protect the trade routes from marauders. The company has recently formed the "1st Alternative Cavalry Platoon" with 25 men and three Indian elephants. The elephants, originally belonging to the Bishop Brothers Circus, were set free in Bellingham in late 1962 when the crew and performers fled into the countryside. The town counsel is not entirely sure that the Army here is going to stay long and they have been making plans to protect themselves in that event. Based at the Bellingham airport is a functioning DNC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, along with 500 gallons of avgas, and pilots, parts and mechanics to maintain and fly it. They have dynamite, grenades, and Molotov cocktails stocked up to drop as bombs. The citizens will use their secret weapon only as a last resource to save their enclave, and fearing that they will requisition it, they have kept it secret from the Army unit in the town. Russians: Elements of the Russian invasion force are still to be found in Washington state. While they were stopped far short of the border, a few small groups have managed to penetrate as south as Tacoma and can still be found in the area. These forces are little more than recon elements which are more concerned with survival than war. 4) OLYMPIC PENINSULA/WESTERN WASHINGTON Though heavily depopulated, the small scattered communities on this rugged peninsula are surviving in these difficult times by the independent spirit that they are known for. The ample game in the forests provide enough food to assure their making it through this winter. Forks: Forks is home to the largest survivor community in the area. A mixture of whites and Indians working together have turned the town into a fort. The 100-man Forks Militia is composed of civilians led by a small number of State Policemen and they maintain vigorous patrols of the nearby countryside. Militia members are armed with a variety of civilian and police small arms. They control the area up to and including Sappho to the northeast and they have a small airfield that they have maintained in the hope that someday it might be needed. Port Angeles: The winter home of a large survivalist/marauder group called "Whitman's Raiders". They have recently found at Cape Flattery a secret cache of weapons placed in the 1950s by Communist Party agents for use by Russian commando units during a potential war. Tree houses: A group of survivalists have formed a commune in the upper reaches of the Redwood forest, a village of rope bridges and Tarzan swings. 5) CENTRAL WASHINGTON The central plateaus of Washington are notable for wide-open deserts and scattered survivor communities. Lice-type typhus is breaking out in the central highlands near the Canadian border. Richland: Richland is now home of the secessionist-minded "Republic of Hanford", led by Sergeant DeHaven and his collection of turncoat National Guardsmen, survivalists and rogues. In the days after the nuclear strikes, DeHaven, as commander of the town's NG unit (Platoon 3 of the Able Company of the 2nd Battalion/161st Infantry Regiment) assumed almost dictatorial powers and organized the citizens into an effective militia using his National Guard platoon as a cadre. When the sea of refugees from Seattle arrived, they were faced by strong obstacles patrolled by armed guards. After trying unsuccessfully to bulldoze into the town by sheer numbers, they went around it and the town was saved. Now Richland has a shaky trading system established with other towns in the state, and the militia will allow small groups of people inside to conduct business. About 1,800 people now live in Richland and the NG platoon has expanded to about 100 men. Sergeant DeHaven legitimizes his power by claiming he is the "Washington State Government in Exile", and as such has the legal right to loot and pillage the countryside. His militiamen operate along the rugged, mountainous frontier of the Cascades, launching small scale raids, often hard to distinguish from the small bands of slavers and bandits that infest the frontier. They have recently set up an outpost in Ephrata, with some 40 impressed citizen militiamen here and have strung together the buildings on the outskirts to create a wall of sorts. Hanford Site: To the northwest of Richland is the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site, now almost completely abandoned. This huge government reserve is rumored to be the home of a secret underground complex. There have been rumors circulating the region that President Kennedy himself has been seen at the base in recent months, though few believe it to be true. Moses Lake: This town rests on the Wanatachee River and recently a strange violet algae has been spreading in the Potholes Reservoir that provides the town's water. The citizens are nervous because the gunk is spreading upriver and the fish have begun to disappear. There is much speculation that the old Hanford Site, roughly two days travel south from the reservoir, is causing the problems. Larson Air Force Base: This air base near Moses Lake was obliterated by the masses of refugees which flowed over the valley in 1962 and 1963, looking for food and guns. Many of the building were gutted by fire and many more are simply abandoned. The sole occupant of Larson AFB is Willie, a friendly but half-crazed old hermit. Located in the woods around the air base are three empty Titan I missile silos. These ICBMs were launched at Russian targets and their silos abandoned soon after. 6) EASTERN WASHINGTON Spokane: This small city has never had it easy. It was devastated by the hordes of refugees streaming east after the nuclear attack on Seattle in 1962. Looting, rape and murder drove out the inhabitants who survived, and the city is now almost completely abandoned. A small settlement in the Morgan Acres area of northeast Spokane has so far been able to fend off the ravages of the refugees and marauders. Approximately 600 people still live in this enclave, though their numbers are dwindling. Spokane is suffered horribly from the recent droughts and it is possible that by the new year the city will be largely abandoned to the scavengers. Fairchild Air Force Base, just west of Spokane, is now a mess. There are, however, some as yet undiscovered underground bunkers here containing thousands and thousands of cases of MREs, winter clothing encased in heavy plastic bags, M2 carbines, .30 cals and ammo, all for the taking. The empty Atlas E ICBM silos of the Fairchild Complex are spread about the countryside surrounding the city. The silos, abandoned after their missiles were launched in 1962, are located in the towns of Deer Park, Newman Lake, Rockford, Croskey, Lamona, Bluestem, Wilbur, Egypt and Crescent.
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12-14-2009, 08:30 PM
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Oregon is under MilGov control and, unlike most of Washington and Idaho, is actually getting a little too much rain. This is causing poor quality crops, but not nearly as desperate a situation as elsewhere. Combined with a terrain that discourages outside invasion, and a fairly well-armed populace, people out here should make it. The MilGov 5th Army (headquartered in San Jose, California) has garrisons scattered about the state at strategic places. 1) NUCLEAR TARGETS None. 2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES Most of the state's 41st Infantry Division was shipped to Europe to be mauled in 1963, leaving a void in the state's defenses. The 104th ID has since taken over the majority of protection and security duties in the Portland area, buttressed with some manpower returned from Korea. 104th Infantry Division--Portland (4000 men, 23 AFVs) 41st Infantry Division (units left behind when parent division shipped out) ------Baker Company, 1st Battalion/186th Infantry Regiment--Klamath Falls (130 men) ------201st Military Intelligence Company--Umatilla (75 men) ------141st Support Battalion--Astoria (490 men, 4 AFVs) 45th Infantry Division--Hood River (750 men, 2 AFVs) ------1st Battalion/179th Infantry Regiment--Burns (100 men) Able Company, 1249th Engineer Battalion--Bend (60 men) 3) WESTERN OREGON More fertile than before, thanks to the changed climate, the area is teaming with life and the problems that come with it. At the north end is the US Army and peaceful enclaves around Portland, Salem and Corvallis, while at the southern end are the marauders and survivalists who have their own claim to "civilization". Linking them both is I-5, in places a major trade route thick with caravans and vehicles, and for other long stretches a hobo's highway, a migration route for the homeless and hopeless and the road bandits who prey on them. Portland: Portland is one of the largest west coast cities still functioning near pre-war levels, a healthy companion to Seattle and San Jose. The current population of the Portland area is around 208,000. The US military is strong in this area, comprising units of the reconstituted 5th Army. Despite it's relative prosperity today, Portland has suffered much in the last two years from massive riots and the near collapse of city infrastructure following the nuclear strikes. Open street fighting took place between the police and units of the National Guard in those first terrible winter months. A quarter of the city was burned and significant marauders, looters, rioters and refugees have caused additional damages since. Today, most of the population of the city lives in the Old Town region, the original center of the city on the west side of the Willamette River, and in a wide band along the east bank. The main US Army unit in the city is the 4,000-man 104th Infantry Division. In early 1963, to fill in the gap caused by the departure of the 41st ID, the 104th Infantry Division was formed by redesignating the 104th Division (Training) which was barracked in Vancouver, Washington, across the river from Portland. The new division was originally tasked to support 8th Army in Korea following its conversing from a training unit, but a shortage of transportation fortunately delayed and eventually cancelled deployment. The division was then made responsible for a variety of internal security and civic action roles in the Oregon area. Currently the unit has five companies of M57 APCs, three M60 tanks, twelve M48A2 Patton tanks, six old Sherman tanks, nine M-8 armored cars, three rocket-launcher trucks, two M-42 Duster AA tanks, and numerous transports. They run frequent convoys north to the Seattle enclave and provide security on the roads between the two, as well as supply and humanitarian convoys south to the Salem and Corvallis areas. They also keep in relatively close contact with the Hood River garrison via a train system, but less so with the other enclaves in the state due to the distances. Recently two big freighters from Japan have been making fairly regular runs from Asia to Portland delivering manufactured articles from factories in Japan and China. The main opposition to the military's rule in the city is "The Green People", a criminal gang mostly consisting of the poorer class of Portland, radical environmentalist types, and socialist scum. China Town on the water front is a major provider of weapons and heroin to the group and a constant source of trouble for the military. Astoria: Near Astoria is "Fort Stevens", an Army base recently built to help control traffic at the mouth of the Columbia River and regulate trade and travel into Portland. The garrison includes the 141st Support Battalion, a unit of the 41st Infantry Division that remained behind when the unit was shipped overseas in 1963, detailed with salvaging machinery and vehicles from around the Portland area. The 141st nominally takes orders from the 104th ID staff, but considers itself still loyal to the 41st ID. A large repair yard has been built east of Astoria, defended by a 40mm AA gun and a quad .50 cal AA gun and ringed by a minefield to keep the scavenging refugees out more than the enemy. The unit currently has 490 men and a wide variety of repair equipment including 24 six-wheel trucks, twelve trailers fitted out as mobile workshops, two eight-wheel trucks fitted out as mobile radar/radio repair shops, two more eight-wheel trucks fitted out as mobile 20-ton cranes, six six-wheel trucks fitted with comprehensive gas and arc welding kits, three M59 APC conversions for medium recovery work, two Sherman ARVs for larger wrecks, and two old surplus M3 Lees fitted with heavy mortars and bulldozer blades for demolition work. They are currently on a program of refurbishing as many semi trucks and commercial construction equipment as possible for anticipated trade and reconstruction plans. Salem: Though Portland is the economic hub of the state, the state government and the Oregon National Guard's headquarters is still in Salem. The city and its defenses are now under the control of Colonel Weintritt, who was the organization's SACO and safety officer. Only through attrition was he able to rise to the rank of Colonel and eventual command of the ONG. He has great experience in organization, but he is not overly bright nor imaginative and often looks to the staff of the 104th ID for advice. In Salem he has some 670 assorted troops gathered from all over the state. As well, personnel from the Oregon Justice Academy and the Oregon Military Institute in nearby Monmouth have been integrated into the city defenses. Corvallis: Due to the wonderful climate and relative peace, there are numerous prosperous trading towns along the I-5 corridor. At the southern end, Corvallis is a relative well-off city that is the center of learning and trade for the northern Willamette Valley. Like many other areas, the strength of the city is the university (OSU), and their smarts to go along with the brawn of the people. Corvallis and environs are divided into independent boroughs, each supporting about four or five hundred people. All the land around here is cultivated or ranched and they have electricity in most public areas. Frequent supply convoys arrive and leave for Portland and the city's security forces are supported by 5th Army advisors. Eugene: While Corvallis is prospering, however, her sister city of Eugene is a charred and rat-infested ruin. Throughout the winter of 1962, led by an unlikely alliance of college students and country rednecks, Eugene held out against the wave of looters from Portland much better than anyone expected. Then the refugees got organized (helped by US Army deserters with knowledge of explosives) and blew the Fall Creek and Lookout Point dams, draining those reservoirs and cutting off power and potable water as well as sending a torrential flood sweeping through the city. Fires then took care of what the flood missed. Eugene is now largely deserted except for salvage parties from Corvallis and bandits. The rains have long since washed away the fire stains and the streets are still covered with flood-born mud now being overgrown with trees and vines. 4) EASTERN OREGON The relative security of provided by scattered military enclaves and the wide open spaces have helped numerous survivor enclaves in the eastern part of the state survive. Enterprise: Home to a burgeoning White Supremacy enclave under control of, or at least sympathetic to the New American Movement. Hood River: Along the Columbia River, the town of Hood River is now home of "Camp Clark", a US Army fort constructed last year to help watch traffic on the river into Portland. The main garrison here is the shattered remains of the 45th Infantry Division (750 men). This division was called up and sent to Korea when the war started and was heavily engaged in the Second Korean War. Once that war ground to a stop in late 1963, the unit was evacuated from Korea when it was deemed pointless to defend it any more. The 45th was mangled in Korea and the survivors of the component battalions were consolidated and shipped to Portland in January of 1964 to join the new 5th Army. They were assigned duties in the state, despite the division commander's desire to let his men go back home to Oklahoma. There were many desertions in Portland, but the rest of the division was trucked west to Hood River to garrison that town. The men are mostly National Guardsmen from Oklahoma and war-weary veterans, some of the most seasoned soldiers on the west coast. As with most units in these times, the manpower mix includes a few Marines, sailors and even civilians, and even the divisional second-in-command is a US Navy Commander. In Hood River they have set up several fuel dumps, dug mortar pits, and gathered some M101 105mm and 155mm howitzers and .50 caliber machine guns to provide a potent deterrence for marauder bands. They also have two M-8 armored cars and some truck transport. The town has a dawn-to-dusk curfew imposed on it, but it is still a miserable place. Gangs rove the streets at night and the military has to sometimes go in and clean the streets up. Because of the isolated nature of the town, morale in the 45th ID is currently at an all-time low, and the few overworked MP's are caching more and more deserters. There is a railhead west of Hood River and several old steam locomotives are being used to move troops and supplies between here and Portland. The Dalles: Held by a group of survivalists and granola-crunchers called the "Columbia Coalition", led by an ex-con named an Greely. The Warm Springs Indian band is also active in The Dalles area, raiding on horseback as far as Hood River. Bend: In the center of the state, Bend is a refugee relocation center with severe shortages of just about everything. They are especially in dire need of medicines and food and think that the local Army garrison is hoarding it all. Home of "Camp Grey", stockade built to house the garrison. The garrison troops are all Oregon National Guardsmen of Able Company of the 1249th Engineer Battalion (60 men), led by Major J.E.B. Collingwood. They are understaffed, under-equipped, trained for something completely different, and have no clear idea what they are supposed to do here. They have half-a-dozen halftracks, some armored jeeps, .50 cal HMGs, and flame throwers, but the tracked vehicles are useless in the thick forests. Umatilla Army Depot: Current home of the 201st Military Intelligence Company (75 men), a unit of the 41st Infantry Division that was never shipped overseas. The 201st has several M59s APCs and some truck transport, but most of it is kept parked at the depot. All the chemical weapons were moved out of the depot to Portland in 1963. An interesting note is that just last month, the 201st guys went in force to the nearby town of Pendleton and brought something back to the depot on an old railway maintenance car. Nobody knows what it was, but rumors are that it was either full of nukes or dead alien bodies. There is also some suspicion that the 201st is planning on going marauder soon as several of its NCOs are avowed neo-Nazis with ties to the Aryan enclaves in Idaho. Burns: In the extreme eastern part of the state, Burns has prospered somewhat since the war, when survivors from the areas towns and farms came together under the leadership of Father Joseph Bozeinski to preserve their town. Some 5,400 residents live here now and more are moving into the area each month. Burns is also home of "Camp Lewis", a US Army base just built this summer to monitor travel along Highways 20 and 395. The garrison is a detachment of the 45 ID at Hood River, the 1st Battalion of the 179th Infantry Regiment (100 men), led by Lt. Colonel Unger. Much like their mates at Hood River, these Oklahomans are not happy with being out in the middle of nowhere so far from home, and desertions are increasing as the men seek to make their way east back home. They are largely on their own these days, with the long distances almost precluding any close contact with other units in the state. East of the Cascade Mountain range: The "John Day Indians" are the most notorious group of people living along the Cascade frontier. Named after a river in the area, their stomping grounds stretch throughout central and eastern Oregon, where they make their living by small-scale farming and nomadic herding, heavily supplemented by pillaging frontier settlements and striking convoys. They have also been known to sell female captives to the biker gangs across the Rockies to the east. They live in small bands, traveling constantly to avoid attacks by the military troops and at most are several hundred strong in well-organized companies. Interestingly, the John Days are not properly an Indian tribe at all. Instead, they are a mixture of outlaw biker and bandit gangs that coalesced around a charismatic survivalist leader known to his followers as "Old Buffalo Breath" sometime in early 1963. Buffalo claimed that the only way to survive in the post-apocalyptic world was to follow the ways used by earlier men, in his case what he felt the pre-Columbian Indian ways. To this basic concept, he added Social Darwinian ideas that helped reinforce the ruthless patriarchy of his rule. 5) SOUTHERN OREGON Grants Pass: The scenically beautiful Rogue River valley has always been a wild and wooly place known for independent people and well-armed survivalist groups. Beginning last spring, many of the smaller groups have banded together to form one large survivalist enclave, about 1,500 to 2,000 strong, centered around Grants Pass. Once they chose Grants Pass, they disarmed the remaining populace and set up a little kingdom of their own, renaming the city "The Province" and their organization the "New American People's Alliance". There are about 4,000 civilians still here and they are seething with resentment. They have pillaged a National Guard armory somewhere down the line and have amassed supplies in the town, including thousands of MREs, clothing, weapons and ammo and have done a good job of fortifying the town. Medford: The Grants Pass enclave is only loosely associated with another group of survivalists holed up further east in Medford. These burgeoning patriots have proclaimed the city the new capital of a Northern California/Oregon separatist movement calling itself "Jefferson". The Jefferson State movement started in the 1910s and was an effort by southern Oregonians and northern Californians--both disgruntled with the way the more populous other ends of their states dominated politics--to separate and form a new one. The security and relative peace the Jeffersonians have brought has swelled the population of Medford to around 43,000. Competing for power in this town is a neo-Nazi fascist group called the "American Knight Movement", but they fall into the thug category rather than the survivalist. Wiccans: The forests of extreme southern Oregon are home to the "Realm of Wicca", an organization of neo-pagans and riffraff with roots that go back into the nineteenth century. Recently, their chief priestess declared that they need to pilgrimage south en masse to build a Stonehenge in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Plans are currently being laid to do so with the spring thaws. Klamath Falls: At Kingsley Field Airport near Klamath Falls, a US Army base has been built to watch the southern approaches to the state. The current garrison is the 130 men of Baker Company of the 1st Battalion/186th Infantry Regiment (OR NG), another component unit of the 41st Infantry Division. The company is led by Colonel Brandon, a Reservist called up into the Oregon National Guard in 1962 and given command of the garrison this summer. The compound is ringed by barbed wire barriers and patrol regularly to keep the bandits at bay. Air assets at the airport consist of a scrubby collection of Oregon Air National Guard trainers and two Cessna crop dusters. Up until a few months ago, the garrison was in contact with the Northern California MilGov garrisons strung along the Sacramento Valley, but marauder attacks along the roads have stopped this. Klamath Falls itself is the stopping point for trade caravans on their way to the villages out in the hinterlands, and serves as a place where members of those towns can come and exchange information, goods, and news about the larger world. Around 2,000 civilians still live in Klamath Falls, making a good living through trade and lodging. Recently, a few cases of anthrax have cropped up and there is some worry as there is little serum available. Diamond Lake: The summer retirement home of former General Robinson and his wife. The general's wife was here when the war started and the General was in Washington on business. He returned with some of his staff and has been building up a little empire here on the slopes of the Cascades north of Crater Lake. He has a local oil well operating and has carved out a rough airfield. His plans for the future of the nation are grand but so far he only has a few men and limited power beyond his own front porch. Southwestern coast: This area is know home to a growing trading network. As the chaos reigned in 1962, three small port towns (New Gale Port, Gold Beach and Cape Blanco) banded together for mutual survival in a stockade policy of keeping everyone out who didn't originally live there. Today, they have an international trade business going with ships from as far away as Japan frequenting the ports to trade for salmon and timber. Currently a Japanese Provisional Government trade office is set up in a warehouse in Gold Beach. The Japanese have rented a dock and have a torpedo boat and three armed merchantmen (the Kukuahima Maru, the Suttsu Maru, and the Matsue Maru) based here, running the Japan-to-Oregon route. There are survivalists in the woods who have raided the towns for food, but they have never been a major problem, and the presence of the armed Japanese have kept them honest.
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California can be easily divided into two regions. The large industrial and technological base and vast agricultural potential of Northern California is mostly intact, so much so that the region is MilGov's main hope for reconstruction in the future. As such, the military presence in NoCal is strong. The 5th Army Headquarters has been reformed in the state, centered in the southern Bay area and the Stockton/Sacramento area. North of the cities and away from the interstates, the land is held only tenuously in the federal grasp, limited to a chain of garrisons in a few small towns in the Sacramento Valley floor. Southern California is a mix of trashed, radiation poisoned urban areas and the wild deserts. The land in between is a no-man's-land guarded by military units trying to keep travel north and south to a minimum. 1) NUCLEAR TARGETS Date----Type----Target---Notes 10/28/62 SS-7 Los Angeles 10/28/62 SS-6 San Diego 10/28/62 SS-N-4 San Diego 10/29/62 SS-N-4 San Francisco 10/29/62 5 mT bomb Dorris 10/31/62 AS-3 Vandenburg AFB 2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES The 91st and 63rd Training Divisions were both destroyed in the nukings of the large cities, with only scattered men making their way into other units. The California National Guard was federalized in November of 1962 and numerous units were sent to the Far East. The largest, however, the 40th AD, was kept in the state to aid in recovery. Today the state is thick with military men. In the south are hold-out Marines and Mexican Army enclaves and in the north are the reconstituted 5th Army based in the Bay area. 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) ------3rd Battalion/70th Armored Regiment--Camp Pendleton (900 men, 8 AFVs) 6th Infantry Division--Fort Ord (2,200 men, 8 AFVs) 25th Infantry Division ------HQ, DISCOM, 1st Battalion/14th Infantry--San Francisco (3000 men, 48 AFVs) ------2nd Battalion/19th Infantry--Sacramento (1000 men, 20 AFVs) ------------Platoon 1, Able Company--Davis (40 men) ------1st Battalion/27th Infantry--Redding (575 men, 11 AFVs) ------1st Battalion/35th Infantry ------------Able Company--Yreka (100 men, 6 AFVs) ------------Baker Company--Red Bluff (100 men) ------------Charlie Company--Chico (60 men) ------2nd Battalion/21st Infantry--Herlong (250 men, 2 AFVs) ------3rd Battalion/69th Armor--Madera (600 men, 4 AFVs) ------32nd Marine Battalion (Provisional)--San Francisco (900 men) ------221st Military Police Brigade--Stockton (400 men, 5 AFV) 40th Armored Division--Bakersfield (6000 men, 78 AFVs) 316th Engineer Combat Battalion--Camp Pendleton (300 men) 33rd Marine Battalion (Provisional)--Camp Pendleton (800 men) 899th Infantry Battalion--Travis AFB (300 men) 900th Infantry Battalion--Yuba City (320 men) Mexican 2nd Army ---1st Brigada (Mechanized)--Ventura (700 men, 2 AFVs) ---2nd Regimento Caballeria--Santa Clarita (1000 men, 8 AFVs) ---La Paz Brigade--Escondido (1200 men, 2 AFVs) ---Ensenada Brigade--San Diego (800 men) ---Tepic Brigade--Pine Valley (2000 men, 1 AFV) ---Regimento Infanteria Activo Tijuana--Twenty-nine Palms (1000 men) ---Hermosillo Brigade--Mojave (1400 men, 2 AFVs) 3) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Northern California has stabilized somewhat under MilGov control, and the weather pattern has made this region fertile again. The larger central valley towns are all under titular federal rule, but beyond that, the large areas of national parks and Indian reservations are dotted with small communities which live in almost total isolation. Cut off by easily blocked mountain roads and sheer distance, most small towns have seen few refugees and bandits, while those near major highways tend to be more defensive, since they see more traffic. Many communities have seen little or no outside contact since the bombs fell, and prefer it that way. The mountain population tends to be independent-minded, with little patience for urban life or central authority, and many have sympathies for the various "Mountain Confederacy" groups, in much the same way the Old South viewed itself in the Civil War. As a result, federal authority generally extends no further than line of sight in the mountains. A vicious war is brewing in the stunning forests of Northern California, as separatists of several stripes have acted to throw off any degree of federal control. The Bear Republic: Most of these bands support a movement called the "Bear Republic", aiming towards independence for northern California. The "Bear Republic" is the name given to the diffuse network of militia groups that sprang up during the early Cold War era. After the nuclear attacks these militias stepped in to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of civil authority. These militias follow diverse leaders and particular ideologies, but all are devoted to the idea of an independent state of Northern California. Bear Republic militias tend to know their territory very well, and make use of ambushes, but will try to avoid stand-up fights or attacks against well-defended targets. They are generally well behaved towards the locals in their territories, relying on sympathizers for provisions and information. Support for the Bear Republic tends to be strongest in mountain country, away from farmland or towns. In these areas, the militias are able to move with impunity. A typical Bear Republic militia group might claim sovereignty over a single county, and will name itself after that area. It will usually consist of 50-200 fighters, with an equal number of family members and noncombatant supporters, with well-concealed encampments in a mountain valley, often near one of the myriad abandoned mines or caves of Northern California. Equipment is mainly civilian hunting gear, usually limited to sporting arms, police equipment, and the occasional bit of captured Army equipment. They rarely have a uniform or body armor, though many of the larger units have adopted a standard camouflage pattern or even patches and distinctive headgear. The NAF:The truly dangerous people, however, are part of the growing White Separatist movement, the same which infests many parts of rural North America. The New Aryan Front (NAF) in Northern California is a Christian Identity paramilitary organization, a large, well-coordinated faction which has embraced Wotanism (the worship of Norse gods such as Thor, Odin, and so forth) in the years since the nukes. Like their KKK predecessors, the NAF is virulently racist and hateful and has rejected modernity entirely, following a creed of strength over all. They are not interested in creating an independent state, instead, they wallow in the chaos, believing that humans are better unfettered and unweakened by civilization. Those inclined towards intellectualism read the works of Nietzsche, Hitler, Franklin Hart, and others. In many ways, the NAF is more of a cult than a paramilitary faction. The code they follow is more Viking than anything else, but it makes them individually fierce fighters. NAF groups are usually known as "war bands", a typical war band will consist of 20-50 fighters, with a lesser number of dependents, slaves, or support personnel. They usually camp in mines or take over small towns in mountain valleys, and live by exacting tributes from surrounding communities. A few smaller bands are nomadic. An individual fighter is often an experienced fighter, well-trained in close combat, and equipped with light body armor and well-maintained military and civilian gear. Fighters in a war band tend to adopt similar camouflage patterns, favoring "tiger stripe" or old Nazi camouflage obtained from various sources. Interestingly, a few war bands have moved away from racialist ideology to focus more on the philosophical aspects of the warrior lifestyle. These groups are even more ferocious combatants, but tend to respect strength in their enemies, so even a black enemy might be considered honorable, but not an equal. The stereotypical image of an NAF fighter, however, is still a white man in a ghillie suit with a long knife. The wayward nuke: Even in this area of isolation, the nuclear war came home. Late on October 29, 1962, a Tu-95M Bear A bomber flew in at 30,000 feet and dropped a 5 megaton nuclear bomb over northern California. The target is still unknown but may have been due to an accidental drop or a moral change of heart on the crew's part. Set upon by interceptors, the damaged Bear crashed mostly intact south of Red Bluff where locals captured one crewman alive. The bomb smashed into the ground and exploded, along Route 97 directly on the tiny town of Dorris right on the Oregon border. The crater formed is about two miles across, and in all directions radiate stands of fallen, charred timber and rubbled plateaus. The fallout cloud spread southwest, forcing towns from Macdoel, to Weed and as far south as Mount Shasta to be abandoned. The Army in the northern Sacramento Valley: In 1964, the US Army has adopted a strategy of controlling the remaining infrastructure, the roads, the rails, and the airfields in the Sacramento Valley, and virtually abandoning everything else. The nearby mountain ranges and national parks are claimed by several NAF warbands, and federal forces rarely patrol beyond the major roadways. Nighttime travel is especially dangerous beyond the valley floor, and the locals claim to have an unusually bad problem with wolves. The valley is now home to three battalions of the 25th Infantry Division, detached from the main body this summer and spread out in the Sacramento Valley. The 1st Battlion/27th Infantry Regiment is in Redding, the 1st Battlion/35th Infantry Regiment has detached companies in camps in other towns, and the 2nd Battalion/21st Infantry Regiment has been sent to Herlong. Garrisons are set up in towns on vital road junctures, patrols are sent out along the main roads, and large forces are maintained only where necessary. Operations in the region are technically managed from the 5th Army's HQ in San Jose through the Regional HQ at Redding, but by and large the individual garrisons are left to their own devices unless in trouble. Because of the security they offer, the garrison towns have absorbed large refugee populations and have remained stable, but they still suffer predation by marauders on occasion. Most communities now turn away outsiders at gunpoint, federal troops or not, and few refugees try anymore. Interstate 5 and Highway 99 are used daily to run supplies and men from the northern garrisons, south to Sacramento and both are maintained very well by engineers and maintenance crews. Up until a few months ago, the string of garrison towns extended up into Oregon to Klamath Falls, but marauder attacks along the roads have stopped this. In many ways, the situation is more akin to the early 19th Century than the 21st Century...and away from the main roads, the situation is frankly more like the 8th or 9th Century. Redding: The center of federal operations in Northern California, "Fort Redding" is formerly the Redding Municipal Airport. It is now home to three battalions of the 25th Infantry Division, detached from the main body this summer and spread out in the Sacramento Valley. The 1st Battalion/27th Infantry Regiment is garrisoned here. Manpower for this over-strength battalion is about 575 troops and recruits from the Redding population. Virtually all of the battalion's heavy equipment is obsolete 1940's vintage equipment stripped from depots and military museums around Northern California. The AFVs stationed in Redding include three M4 Shermans, an M5A1 Stuart, and seven M3 halftrack variants (AT, AA, etc). A newly-formed Artillery Platoon has seven guns, all towed and a mix of 155mm, 105mm, and 75mm. As well, there is the "Dragoon Company", composed of four "troops" of forty soldiers each mounted on police- and cavalry-trained horses with old Army Garand rifles. It is deployed in the mountains around the Central Valley, conducting patrols and ambushes against the numerous marauder and guerilla bands. Additionally, there are about 200 militiamen of one sort or another, armed with small arms and some rifle grenades, most of which are involved in transporting food and resources which are collected at the various points further south. Fort Redding has a fairly good medical facility and ample alcohol fuel for it's vehicles. Unfortunately, the population of Redding is restless and chafes under the presence of the Army and militia, and sabotage and outright guerilla attacks are a problem. There are some 14,000 civilians still in town, led by Mayor Harris. Yreka: Yreka has about 12,000 civilians living here now. Led by a man known simply as Chuck, they are organized, and have a clinic, schools, some electricity, and water and sewer service back online. The US Army unit here is Able Company of the 1st Battalion/35th Infantry Regiment. It has 100 men with four M103 heavy tanks and two M48A2 Patton medium tanks. The unit has recently been showing signs of turning marauder, having been influenced by local survivalists. Red Bluff: Further south, Red Bluff is a small town on the Sacramento River, at the junction of I-5 and State Hwy 99, the two north-south corridors through the region. Location alone makes it important and roughly 100 soldiers and some impressed former California Highway Patrolmen from Baker Company of the 1st Battlion/35th Infantry Regiment, are encamped at the "Idlewheels" RV campsite. The garrison has fifteen trucks and a single 105mm mortar to control the groves to the south as well as the approaches to the town, which they use in lieu of extensive patrols. Most of the opposition that the garrison faces comes from Bear Republic militias, though a single warband of NAF fighters is believed to be in the area. Chico: Along the Highway 99 route, Chico is now a large fortress town of 9,000 citizens who walled off their city from refugees early on. "Camp Chico" is dug in on the campus of CSU-Chico, and consists of a garrison of about 60 soldiers from Charlie Company of the 1st Battlion/35th Infantry Regiment, plus a number of local recruits. The garrison has fifteen trucks, two 81mm mortars and two M101 105mm pack howitzers, all of which make their position quite secure. The population is a bit friendlier to the federals than other areas, and Chico can be considered fairly safe. The countryside to the east of Chico is infested with Bear Republic militia groups, however, and more than a few small marauder gangs. The main Bear Republic cell in the area has undergone a major leadership change in the past few months. The moderate leader was killed by a homicidal maniac that has began to attack the more isolated towns in the area, burning and pillaging them. So far they have completely razed several towns, including Graeagle, Cloverdale, and Quincy. The Army in Chico is making plans to hunt them down, something that no one feels like doing. Yuba City: Yuba City itself has a lot of refugees, and the 320 troops of the 900th Infantry Battalion here spend a lot of time holed up in their impromptu fortress. This battalion was formed from excess personnel from Travis, Beale and McClellan Air Force Bases and are responsible for local security and escort for convoys. This group has had several skirmishes with marauders lately, though the marauders are of a more random sort than normal, mostly desperate refugees, escapee gangs, and so forth rather than the guerillas found elsewhere. Many of these marauders are escapees from Folsom and New Folsom Prisons, both located near Sacramento. About twelve miles east of Yuba is the ruins of Beale Air Force Base. This was formerly an ICBM and B-52 SAC base, though now it is mostly abandoned and in a state of disrepair, picked over a thousand times over the years. The empty Titan I ICBM silos are located three each near the towns of Lincoln and Chico and in the Sutter Buttes near Live Oak. The silo crews abandoned them soon after they fired their missiles. Williams: To the west of Yuba, located at the crossing of I-5 and Hwy 20, the small agricultural town of Williams is garrisoned by about 20 soldiers rotated from Redding who are charged with protecting traffic on the interstate. This garrison is unusually busy, thanks to the proximity of the Mendocino National Forest and the numerous militia groups that reside there. The farm communities either sympathize or are frequently raided, so the garrison is often in action. The main asset available to them are three two-seater ultralights piloted by friendly local aviators. This allows them to scout and patrol the large expanses of open land. "Camp Williams", despite being fairly small, is very heavily fortified, built in a small business park along the side of the highway. South of the town is a large abandoned area where militia troops turned back a large refugee mob that tried to ambush a MilGov convoy a month ago, at heavy cost. Bones still lie by the roadside, as no locals will go there. Lakeport: Lakeport is one of the most remote of the various MilGov outposts in the region. Lakeport is mainly used as a staging area for operations along State Hwy 101 and into the coastal mountain range. It doesn't control a particularly valuable agricultural area, though the lake is good fishing, it's purpose is solely strategic. There are 30 soldiers here rotated from Redding, including a squad of Rangers. The local populace is at best sympathetic to the Bear Republic, so the area is beautiful but hazardous. The garrison has a single UH-1 helicopter, and a large number of small mortars that they have to use more frequently than they'd like. The UH-1 is used mostly to deliver the Ranger squad to assault sites. Herlong: This garrison is outside of the Sacramento Valley, on the east side of the Sierra Nevada chain even, but vital because of the Sierra Army Munitions Depot located here. The garrison is the 250 men of the 2nd Battalion/21st Infantry Regiment enclaved in "Firebase Nicholson". The 2/21st has three five-ton cargo trucks, an M3 halftrack gun truck with a bad motor, a few jeeps and LWB Land Rovers, and one "throw together" howitzer-on-a-farm-truck fire support vehicle (but despite all the tons of ammunition at the depot, only one shell for it). The battalion commander is Captain Richard Sutherling. Being a competent leader, Sutherling was transferred to the 2/21st when the former CO was killed when his jeep was ambushed near Genesee. In addition to the troops of the 2/21st, the town is populated by 500 civilians, mostly farmers and their families. It is rumored that there are still some stocks of chemical and biological weapons at the depot, and most see this as the reason for the garrison. They are now patrolling Highway 395 north to Alturas in an attempt to encourage more trade and travel. Alturas, however, is not willing to risk it as the area is thick with bandits. Donner Pass: This high mountain pass east of Lake Tahoe (which is really beautiful and is a survivalist’s dreamland) is defended by a powerful farmer's militia, often patrolling a hundred miles into the desert to keep marauders at bay. A single-engine prop plane is used sporadically to patrol the vast swaths of desert, communicating with termination squads on the ground. Sacramento: Sacramento is still the official capital of the state, with about 40% of the original population having returned and now living and trading within its defended walls. A state government council convenes here weekly to pass whatever legislation it can. In reality, of course, the Army has a final say in everything, although it is not uncommon for the two organizations' goals to be similar, creating an air of co-operation. The city is dirtier and emptier than it once was, and a slow process of decay is happening, creating large slum areas which both the Army and local police are having difficulty controlling. Sacramento's northern neighborhoods were the most badly damaged in the chaos, and a concentrated but slow process of rebuilding is taking place here. Sacramento has also tended to avoid the problems other cities experience in this post-war world due to the presence of constant trade, active political control and a large military body keeping the trouble to a minimum. The intelligent men on the staff of Sacramento State University are working with the local leaders to improve crop yields. The Sacramento area is protected by the bulk of the 2nd Battalion/19th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division. The battalion has around 1,000 men and is heavily mechanized with twenty M48A2 Patton tanks, two M75 APCs, twenty M59A1 APCs, four M20 armored cars and some mortar carriers. The battalion is commanded by Colonel John Callister, a former California National Guardsmen from the Bay area, who often sends his men out to look for missing members of his family. The city is the southern end of the supply chain supporting the garrisons up along the Sacramento Valley and is busy in this activity. Davis: Garrisoned at the trashed campus of UC-Davis is the 40 men of Platoon 1, Able Company, 2/19th Infantry from Sacramento. They are currently overseeing the salvaging of the campus buildings. Stockton: This agricultural city's large pre-war population suffered heavily from fallout from the San Francisco area strike. With losses replaced by refugees fleeing both San Francisco and Sacramento, Stockton has remained at about the same number since. The city is ruled by the US military, who have a strong presence here in the 400 California National Guardsmen of the 221st Military Police Brigade, which recently absorbed the remnants of the 63rd Infantry Division and is responsible for security and the distribution of foodstuffs in the area. This brigade is now attached to 25th ID HQ in San Francisco and takes it's orders from there. The unit's HQ is currently at the FMC fabrication plant, once known for building M113 personnel carriers. The 63rd ID was a Reserve unit originally from the Los Angeles area. When the nuke hit that city, the division tried to mobilize and assist in evacuating the civilians, but the chaos was too much and the division was crushed under the flood of refugees. A few dozen men of the unit made their way north and reorganized in Stockton. When the 221st MPB was moved to Stockton from San Francisco in late 1962, there were no armored vehicles to be had anywhere for the brigade other than one training tank, with no turret, from nearby Sharpe Army Depot. After realizing that there was no immediate need for all of the banks in Stockton or the armored cars that carried their money from place to place, the brigade CO ordered that enough armored cars be commandeered from the civilian sector to equip the brigade. The armored cars were then modified by the army engineers and turned into armored personnel carriers. The weird APC's are dubbed "Brinksmobiles" by the men of the brigade, and the other troops in the area call the men the "Golden Boys" because of their vehicles. The training tank has been armed with a 120mm mortar as well. The poor vehicle situation was alleviated somewhat when the 25th Infantry Division arrived in San Francisco in 1963. The 25th supplied the Stockton garrison with much equipment, including one M60 tank, one M48A2 Patton tank, two M41 light tanks, two M8 armored cars, one M113 APC, two 5 ton trucks, and four deuce-and-a-half trucks. Air assets at Stockton's modern airport include the 144th Fighter Wing with six F-86L Saber jet fighters and two C-123 Provider transports. The 144th FW was originally a California Air National Guard unit responsible for regional air defense. Activated following the nuclear strikes, the F-86s of the unit provided CAP for much of the west coast from San Diego to the Canadian border. As loses mounted in the war in Korea, many aircrew and aircraft were siphoned off to other units abroad. When the Mexican Army invaded in 1964, the 144th FW tangled with the small but rested Mexican Air Force. Upon achieving air superiority, the unit changed missions to provide interdiction strikes and close air support for the local garrisons until the fuel and targets became scarce. Most of Stockton's population lives in the crowded and dirty tent cities which surround the town, with food and water trucked in by the military. Large numbers of sick and radiation-scarred people can be found here, and mass graves and crematory pits dot the countryside. The MPs are no saints in these refugee slums. Called "white mice" for their white helmets, the refugees chafe at their heavy-handed rule. Known for their hoarding of resources and lack of regard for civilians, are just as hated in the city as the marauders and Mexicans are. Many believe that Stockton is only kept "online" because it keeps the refugees from overflowing into the valleys to the south. South of Stockton is a control zone, which is being mined and fortified, to prevent refugees from moving south without army permission. Santa Rosa: A major refugee camp still filled with survivors from the San Francisco area. Just this fall the authorities are releasing large numbers of refugees from the camps. They say it is because the countryside is safer now, but the rumor is that the supplies have dried up and the town's leaders are afraid of the refugees rioting. People with homes in Santa Rosa have been making them into little forts with whatever they can find. The town is under martial law and everyone carries a gun.
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