Free Hell in the Homeland by A. J. Newman

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    John quickly dressed and put his shoulder holster on with his Colt 1911 and headed out the door. Beth gave the finger to Ann and jumped out of bed.
    Ann said, “Put some clothes on, hussy! John never slept naked with me.”
    Beth replied, “I give him a reason to, every night!”
     
     
    John walked out the door into a squad of Marines in full battle gear. They took his .45 and marched him over to the helicopter. Marine Colonel Hiram Stokes and his staff were inside. They welcomed John and immediately began by thanking him for leading the resistance against the DHS.
    John said, “Look friends, we are just trying to survive and those bastards were trying to make slaves out of these good people.”
    The major filled John in on the current situation across the USA. As John feared, the DHS was trying to control the entire country and the Military was sure that the president and a large contingent of liberal progressives had been planning this for years. They weren’t sure, but they may even have been behind the nuclear attacks around the world. He also learned that Israel had used neutron bombs on most of the radical Islamic strong holds in the Middle East. Israel had been attacked by several countries and Al-Qaida. They nuked the bastards and took control of a strip of land one hundred miles wide around Israel. They moved all people out and mined the strip to stop all future attacks.
    Back in the USA, the president had declared martial law, suspended the constitution and put his socialist friends into all key positions, but most of the military had deserted and would not obey his commands. They were actually threatening to remove him from power, but the president still controlled a handful of nukes so the military would leave them alone.
    He then told John that most of the country was without power and in the same shape as lower Alabama. The exceptions were several cities that appeared to have been prepared for the EMP blasts. Chicago, Charleston, Sacramento and several other liberal bastions still had power.
    John said, “Charleston is not a liberal city.”
    The colonel replied, “The government moved a large contingent of the Navy, Army and DHS to Charleston and appeared to think that would be the new capital of the USA. The Navy and half of the Army did not go along with that and derailed the plan. The Military had stood up to the president and actually eliminated the DHS from Charleston and all other military bases.”
    After catching up on current events, they got down to business. They wanted to know if John and his people were in the fight to take back their country.
    John looked puzzled and said, “I may not be the brightest guy, but y’all are the military, why don’t y’all just kick their asses and take the country back?”
    The colonel replied, “John, normally you would be right about that, but we have not gotten you up to speed on the state of the military. The problem is that we have almost 80% of the Navy, 80% of the Air Force, but only about 40% of the Army and Marines survived the initial attack and subsequent attacks by our enemies when they thought we were weakened. In addition, two thirds of the surviving troops are overseas trying to extricate themselves from local fighting. Therefore, the bottom line is we need every fighting man and woman that we can field to take back the country. In addition, I failed to mention about ten percent of the armed service still supports the president. We have them bottled up and shaking in their boots that we will nuke them.”
    John had to stop and think for a minute.
    Finally he said, “It goes without saying that everyone here will fight to save our country, but the only decent arms that we have are ones that we had to take from the DHS dead bodies.”
    The colonel replied, “Did I fail to mention that we control all military supply warehouses? We can supply you with every possible supply and arm plus training. We will attach two Navy Seals to your